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>Kids get bored quicker I bet you walked to school uphill, in both directions, in 3ft of snow in 110 degree heat! Kids never change. You have.

• philwelch 15y ago
  When I was a kid, I could sit and watch movies or TV for hours. Even crappy ones. Now, of course, it has to actually be good. Kids have always had shorter attention spans than adults, though. That's why children's movies are usually just over an hour while adult movies can be 2-3 hours.
  • parfe 15y ago
    I agree. I only posted to comment on the idea that somehow kids these days have gotten worse compared to older generations. The original post mis-attributes the kids getting bored to shorter attention spans, rather than lower quality films. Take for example Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937): 84 minutes Bambi (1942) runtime: 70 minutes Toy Story 3 (2010): 103 minutes The "kids these days" myth has existed since the dawn of language. People grow up and do not understand they have changed, not the children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_feature_films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_featu... http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disney-movies.asp http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disney-movies.asp
    • philwelch 15y ago
      I was actually agreeing with that--when I was a kid, I could actually sit through a kid's movie. If kids today empirically can't do that, then maybe they have changed.