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This is a golden age for nostalgia by the boomers and their echo generation. It drives these highly delayed sequels, just as it drove the Star Wars prequels. I
by a4isms 4y ago
This is a golden age for nostalgia by the boomers and their echo generation.
It drives these highly delayed sequels, just as it drove the Star Wars prequels. It drives high prices for certain used cars and musical instruments, all of which represent nostalgia for a generation that has retired with disposable income. It drives outrageous ticket prices for aging rockers reliving 30 year-old hits.
It's demographics. When this wealthy generation dies off, the interest in its nostalgia will fade.
- nonameiguess 4y agoBoomers? I'm only in my 40s and have a whole lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia that Hollywood is milking the F out of. I'm hoping I won't die any time soon. Tom Cruise and Ed Harris are just the stars of some of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. Jennifer Connelly one of my first crushes. Not sure Top Gun is just targeting boomers.
- panzagl 4y agoPsst, just so you know, Generation X doesn't exist anymore- that's what GP meant by 'their echo generation'. I'd argue against him, but, whatever.
- jessaustin 4y ago[EDIT for clarity:] The boomers are a populous generation, and their children the millennials are also populous in a sort of "echo". It makes sense, that lots of parents would have had lots of kids. X are a less populous generation sandwiched in between those other two. https://nerej.com/generation-y-also-known-as-millennial-or-echo-boomers https://nerej.com/generation-y-also-known-as-millennial-or-e...
- panzagl 4y agoBoomers somehow gave birth to two generations- you had some still getting married and having kids right out of high school (kids would be Gen X) but you also had the 'Me Generation'/Studio 54/Gordon Gecko half who put off kids for career/lifestyle or spread them out over multiple marriages. I have a coworker who is 22 years younger than me despite our parents' ages being about two years apart. He's barely a millennial, while my childhood was pretty much as documented in 'Stranger Things'.
- dredmorbius 4y agoGen-X aren't the boomer echo, they're the boomer bust. Sort of the negative space propagating up the demographic pyramid that slacked breifly and was never heard from again.
- prionassembly 4y agoStranger Things. ST is generally awful and I was compelled to watch up to S3. I'd probably be watching S4 if I had the time. The thing is impressively optimized.
- at_a_remove 4y agoI ditched somewhere around S3. It wasn't like Ready Player One, where I felt ... milked ... but it was close to it. Gen X, mostly ignored, is still cynical enough to know when someone is trying to play them, and that's alright. Don't get me wrong, some utility exists in the selection of earlier settings, namely not having cell phones, so I am sympathetic to that from the needs of the writers, but it would be nice not to have this stuff laid on with a trowel.
- Ensorceled 4y ago> It wasn't like Ready Player One, where I felt ... milked ... Ready Player One was a deliberately over the top nostalgia fest ... Ready Player Two was where I felt played/milked.
- dageshi 4y agoApparently season 4 is pretty good. The angry scottish man likes it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoToWBbbAU&t=166s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoToWBbbAU&t=166s