all of these broad, post-Obsession takes on what Zoomers Actually Want are all very stupid when it’s as simple as this: young people like things with simple, interesting loglines just like every generation of young people before
Observations like this make me weep for the state of movie theaters. Because this is not like, some subtle Easter egg. It’s a sound cue that pretty much any normal mix on any normal speakers will come out right over the plate. So any theaters where you couldn’t hear that - rough.
The idea that the movie Obsession is Easy Rider for zoomers and not just a pretty standard Blumhouse style movie made for people with tik tok addictions is a good example of how historical precedence has been obliterated by dwindling attention spans.
everyone is universally against TSA lines in movie theaters except for the theme park blogger class who have broken out of containment and escaped into Main. They’ll try to sound like normie moviegoers but don’t be fooled. They don’t argue in good faith and they LOVE surveillance
I'm putting the word "slop" on the top shelf until you prove you can use it responsibly, because in what fucking world are The Fugitive and Tombstone "slop"
There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products
It's so funny whenever people are like "it's because of the LEFT that we're overrun by homeless people on the street!" knowing that the real reason is that Ronald Reagan slashed all the funding for low income housing and mental hospitals
You know what was great about Siskel & Ebert? They didn't spend half of every episode analyzing box office and pretending to be industry insiders. They just watched the movies and talked about their reactions.
It really feels like the entire world has turned into an inescapable panopticon. I look back on the pre-computer days and they almost seem like a time of ridiculous freedom, where you could just skip town and start a new life whenever you wanted