WE are cry babies, but you come here, to a movie forum, about a GenX movie, to whine about GenX.
You know you are not going to get trophy from me, GenX had to EARN their trophies no handing them out to every pansy who can pout & produce tears.
Peace and prosperity?
Personally I feel generational labels are passe after birth control was invented -as we don't have specific *booms* anymore. Also, I am not going to belittle the tolls that those two wars have taken on any generation-its been too much.
Especially when my generation was the first out the door/boots on the ground in the
Gulf War- Operation Dessert Storm 90-91.
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Vietnam War 55-75-sine the included years for GenX are 1960-81 you do see the overlap do you not?
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Cold war 47-91- depending on when you were born 1960-1981 in the GenX spectrum, it affected us deeply we nearly came to annihilation in The Cuban Missile Crisis & again in 1983, we had duck and tuck drills during school. We were brainwashed in school about Communism & the Russians- how they hated us for our freedom, how the US was the greatest....-most of us bought into this propaganda.
-Serious Scuffles in
Panama, Beruit, and
Libya in late 80s
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The Recession? Long lines for gas-we used to pack like we were going on a trip across country because we were going to sit in the car for 4 hours, you were only allowed to fill up on certain days of the week and the lines were ridiculous.
-We were
latchkey kids-in order to stay above water/middle class both of our parents had to work leaving us alone in the empty house every afternoon after school. Which reinforced our loner tendencies.
-Look up
crack epidemic that was eating our inner cities while you are at that look up how the coke came into the country-Miami was like the wild west
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Times Square wasn't a family friendly Disneyland but a seedy place for dime peep shows and prostitutes.
-We had to
pay for our music-and then repay when the album was scratched or warped or the tape malfunctioned or mysteriously got eaten by your cars tape player. Also, we had to buy a whole album for one song.
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Iran hostage crisis.-We had
3 freakin' channels (well a few more with UHF as children)
-Was almost an adult when the internet came along and had to
adapt to it social media and everything else or risk losing our jobs differently while computers and cell phone made many jobs null and void.
and...and...and... if that were not enough the cherry on the Sunday is that someone went and flipped timelines on many GenXers and while we remember the
Bernstein Bears, we now have to spell it Bernstain while being told it was never "stein"
How is that for being
kookoo for cocca puffs?
Today I watched this movie for the first time and I actually connected with Ben Stiller's character, despite not being of a fan of actor. He wasn't trying to be pseudo-intellectual, he was just trying to overcome his own social awkwardness. Michael had good intentions, but just couldn't come through.
When you grow up, and re-watch the movies of your youth, you identify with different characters because you have had personal growth and changed-developed cognitive thinking. Although I love the movie, its clear that
Ben Stiller's character was the one to place your bets with. I can't hear you over the volume of my hair.
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tom-1674
8 years ago
Don't forget AIDS. I was born in 1963, so in high school had a few years of not worrying about dying from sex, but by the time I was ready to start dating to find a wife, AIDS was in full scare mode.
Don't forget Affirmative Action. Maybe if you were a woman or a minority you were lucky, but I'm a white male, so just when I was entering career age, doors were slamming everywhere. The federal government mandated that by 1990 all large companies and government departments had to have internal demographics matching the country's demographic. This effectively meant that I could not be hired unless they could not find a woman or minority fill it. Fortunately I was in computer science in the 1980s so managed to find work easily. Most of my white male friends had to wait tables or do some other *beep* job to pay off their student loan. BTW we were the first generation that had to pay tuition to go to state university - all previous generations could go for free or a nominal fee.
Don't forget interest rates. Just when I was ready to buy a house or take out a car loan, the base interest rate was 15%! It stayed over 10% for many years, yet savings interest rates were much lower of course.
And last but certainly not least - don't forget child abuse. In the 1960s and 1970s when I was a child, I was beaten hard and often for little to no reason by a psychotic stepfather, which back then was perfectly legal. He also used to beat the *beep* out of my mother, but got away with it because it was tolerated back then. Several friends were sexually molested by their priests/and or scout leaders or gym teachers or whoever. Paedophiles were all over the place.
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Lady_Elaine_Fairchild
8 years ago
I am sorry that happened to you.
AIDS putting "wanna be" wild sluts like me in check for decades now...if only I were born a decade earlier right? No I shouldn't be so flip about it but yea you are certainly right.
This SOLs /Standard of Learning that the younger generation is taught to instead of learning critical thinking shows in their posts (and essay papers). Memorize don't learn
Oh & yep I know the back end of a belt and a wooden spoon and sometimes a hand to the face. I am not a violent person from it and it taught me to respect elders and to work had.
I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears...
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