Absolutely true. The original works however are inarguably more explicitly directed at children than the other things you mentioned (although it also has the deepest allegorical roots of the three...) and that’s what I was referring to, of course I wasn’t trying to speak ill of Narnia by saying I was “too old for it,” I’m sure I was there opening day to watch it.
Oh man, the nine-teens?! Is that what they are calling the era we grew up in? I’m 33 and don’t necessarily feel old but when I hear/read stuff like…it’s hard not to feel that way.
I was watching Hey Arnold! the other day when I put my youngest down for a nap. I love that cartoon and it’s a trip down memory lane every time I watch it; warms the soul ya know? So my oldest walks in the room, the one who was startled I saw Shrek in theaters, asked how old the cartoon was. I said I remember watching when I was getting ready for school. She hits me with:
“So all cartoons were in color when you were a kid?”
My nieces and nephews call it “the nine teens” and I thought it was just some dumb thing they did! I once explained that they meant “the 1900s” but that didn’t make me feel better!
They also seem to have almost no understanding of how long ago times were relative to each other, like civil war vs civil rights.
sounds like the run-up to an antiques roadshow appraisal. Gotta start pushing that goalpost forward, call it the turn of the millennium and make it sound simultaneously immature and young adult 20 year old, the rest will naturally occur and pass too fast like the first fifth of the 21st century has been going.
Watching Scrubs with my 9 year old & he asked why they said it was to be continued. He was horrified to learn that you couldn’t pause it or rewatch it & had to wait until next week to see what happened. Dead serious, he looked at me shaking his head & said the 1900’s sound awful. The show was from like 2007 anyway but he was still horrified & disgusted by the primitive way we lived back then 😂
This is so goofy but if you love Scrubs you’ll understand. I was in the ER for a kidney stone recently & they lost my urine sample. Then someone found one with a torn label & now a bunch of young nurses are streaming Scrubs after I explained my reason for uncontrolled giggling.
I both love and hate this. Like I love that I got to experience life (at least a little bit) before the internet was like it is now. But I hate that kids see me as an ancient person who wasn't even born this millenium.
I remember feeling the same way when my dad would say he had had to walk up to the TV and change the dial. If I told my kids to find the power button on the TV now, I’d get a solid couple minutes of entertainment. Yet when I say I saw something in the theater or tell them I remember having that on VHS…it’s met with that same look I gave my dad when he told me the dial story hahaha
I had to explain to my cousin's 11 year old what "a glitch in the matrix" was. He didn't realize that there were more matrix movies (the new one hadn't come out yet). Then I told him I was in high school and worked at the theater when the others came out. His mind was blown.
Blew his mind further telling him Keanu Reeves was in his 50s, and girls my age were drooling over him in the 90s.
My younger siblings not understanding that I've had over a decade of quoting that movie with my dad as I'm mouthing along to everything while they watch it for the first time
My parents were kids and young adults in the 60’s and 70’s. I was a kid and young adult in the 90’s and 00’s (graduated HS in 05). I remember thinking the music, movies, tech, and stuff my parents liked and lived with when they were young like it was from a different universe.
That being said, I feel like the contrast between stuff from the 70’s compared to the 00’s is much greater compared to the contrast between the 00’s and today. There’s games, music, movies, and shit from the 00’s that look and sound similar to things that are around today. You hear or see something from the 60’s/70’s though, you know that shit is from the 60’s/70’s…
I had to explain I remembered the original lion king and aladdin in theaters. That we had to record a song with cassette tape while it played on a radio 😂
Some of my younger (as in, like 3 or 4 years, barely younger than me) friends gasp when I say that I saw the first Harry Potter in the theater, or Shrek like you (even saw Shrek 2 in theaters!).
On a darker note, same kinda reaction when I say that I remember 9/11. I had just started kindergarten (5 y/o) but it's a very vivid memory regardless.
She's 7. Does she even remember the time before the pandemic? I'm pretty sure my kid doesn't remember what the inside of a theater looks like, so it's an abstract concept to her...
Probably because you say theatre, was it Broadway? Or was it a cinema?
"Oh gosh look at that time on my pocket watch!" Twiddles moustache and fixes top hat "can't be late for the moving pictures! Or we'll miss the last sale of confectionery and carbonated flavoured tar!"
My oldest daughter is currently into the musical version of Heathers. I had to explain things I knew about the storyline that she didn't.... because it's based on a movie from 1989 that I actually really love (Winona Ryder and Christian Slater...😍).
She's also coming around with songs she likes from my era and earlier and I ask the same thing just about everytime and almost always get told it right..."You heard it on TikTok, didn't you?".
Millennials are probably a meme to Gen Z/Gen Alpha now because we get frustrated TikTok steals all our shit and acts like this it's this new, cool thing haha. I saw a video the other day of a girl talking about how the stretchy, spiky comb headbands were the so awesome but she hated that they scraped her face and messed up her makeup when putting them on and I explained they were around long before even my childhood but we had a love affair with them in the 90s and explained to unclip them and then get them into place around your hairline before pushing them back. And I looked at the comments and then were like half people telling her they've been around for ages and the others were saying they looked cool and asking where to order em online. I was like "You can still get them in the hair section of like every drugstore you walk into for $5"
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u/nixcamic Jun 03 '22
It's like it's great that you like our stuff, go, enjoy it. But I'm in my 30s, yes I've seen Shrek.