whalesnrainbows comments on DC Studios’ New Boss Jeremy Latcham Has a ‘Guiding Light’ for Superhero Movies: Would My Grandma Like It? ‘You Have to Make Them for Everybody’

[–] whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

I really hate the amount of resources that boomer slop media is getting from the entertainment industry. It’s a relatively small percentage, but definitely larger than I recall ever seeing in the past.

I understand the logic, but fuck, older people used to just watch media from their youth. I can’t imagine the Hollywood of previous generations ever giving much of a shit about whether or not senior citizens would want to watch their films or TV shows.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 19 hours ago

I don't know what it is like in other countries, but in mine, the elderly all love to watch detective shows like Barnaby and they adore Mrs Hyacinth.

I like Hyacinth well enough, but all these detective shows are like watching paint dry and they are all the same. My dad would talk about this detective show and that detective show and they would all have different names, but I could never tell them apart.

Maybe the older generation really would love super hero movies, because to me, it's the same shit there. They all have different names and costumes, but it's just the same movie over and over again.

They can have super man and batman show up at a crime scene and question people for two hours while intermittedly going "hmm... curious. Very curious" and then have one half assed chase scene if they feel frisky and then a 20 minute monologue where Batman reveals the plot and whom the perp is and why they did what they did. Old people in my country would love that shit. The rest of us would feel lobotimized.

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