Age 35

[ericadawn16]

A month or two ago, I mentioned to someone about a study where people tend to hate things after 35 which explained the anger towards the female Ghostbusters and such...

It turns out I remembered it all wrong. It wasn't a study. It was Douglas Adams. It's still true though, just put kickass females in place of technologies:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I admit it. I try to support stuff because it's either different and/or there's opposition to it based on bigotry.

I guess I'm the opposite. Social media outrage makes me want to back away slowly and go read a book ;)

Did he add what he prefers? Some have argued for more stories where the original characters WERE different races instead of "dipping".

That was the implication.

(Sometimes I come across the FF movies on TV and they literally embarrass me. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Avengers movies.)

I'm perfectly okay with R... I'm a fan of GoT and Outlander, after all ;) I just have to be in the mood to start a new series.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

My mom is one of those Baby Boomers who was never allowed to protest or reject authority in the '60s when they were supposed to so she came to it in late in life. As such, she's instilled a compulsion to act on injustice even if it's just something like boycotting a particular company. At this point, my friends can't even keep up with all the companies that I either boycott or try to avoid for various reasons.

Obviously, I don't want to blindly follow social media outrage. I'm going to try and find out the truth about it.

Thanks for clearing it up about the dipping. However, that implies that it's easy for Hollywood to make those tv series and films about POCs. It's not, because Hollywood thinks they don't make money unless it's Tyler Perry in drag or produced by Shonda Rimes although Lee Daniels is starting to get more power. Most of the source material they want to adapt because it's sold millions, has readers all over, etc...they're predominately white because publishing isn't that different from Hollywood. There isn't a lot of POC leads there either.

Now, currently Hollywood does have some films coming out with African-Americans as leads but...most are still about the Civil War or the Civil Rights era so that even my mom was like...why?

But I think things are going to get better. People are pooling their resources and using Crowd-Sourcing to fund projects that Hollywood wouldn't do. There are also a lot of people on Youtube and elsewhere making popular series that prove people want other Points of View.

I've seen all 3 FF films in the theatre. Obviously, it was Marvel but I wasn't like a HUGE fangirl back then. No, I wanted to see those first two films because of Ioan Gruffudd...HORATIO HORNBLOWER ON THE BIG SCREEN!!!
And he gets to have a love interest with Dark Angel!!! in horrible blonde hair but still!!!
A few years ago, I bought the first film for my nephews to watch so they would appreciate how comic book films are done now and see YOUNG CHRIS EVANS!!!
I will still watch FF on television and will probably do the same with the third one depending on where in the film they are at. If you want to see cheesy, you should see the really old Marvel stuff we had as tots with like the tv movie The Incredible Hulk Returns when I was 5 and a half. These kids have it easy now.

Hmm, that could be part of the reason I never got into those. Sometimes, I'll watch an episode of Outlander because I came past it but Game of Thrones...I've never managed a full episode. They always do something to upset me. Last time, I didn't even make it through the "Last season on Game of Thrones" montage.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

My parents were one of the later boomers too (born in '58) but I've never noticed that particular inclination in either of them. Go figure :)

Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back about how progressive and liberal it is, and it's also pretty consistently accused of being unfair to PoC, which has always struck me as amusing. I think it comes down to what we were discussing earlier... not every movie with a PoC lead that bombs does so because that's not what audiences want to see. Sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie. Movies are more and more expensive these days and studios want to go with a sure thing, and what makes a movie a sure thing seems to have a lot more to do with franchise or the studio's reputation (SW, Marvel, Hunger Games, Pixar). But hey, I can't remember the last movie I actually went to a theater to see.

GoT has made me wince on more than one occasion but, especially in the early seasons, I was ready for it having read the books. Must have something to do with growing up watching X-Files, Profiler, etc ;)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

No, my mom was born in '47 but her parents were THAT conservative that she was brainwashed into thinking everything was great and the hippies were wrong and stupid.

Yep...oh, I go fairly often. Last Monday, my mom and I went to The Free State of Jones...SO GOOD.

Must have something to do with growing up watching X-Files, Profiler, etc ;)

No, no it wasn't because I also watched The X-Files, Profiler, all the various NBC/CBS/whatever crime shows, Buffy, Angel, Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost, I really loved Touching Evil, my oldest brother would insist on watching Tales from the Crypt and the other brother loved the Nightmare on Elm Street series Fox had for a while...it gave me nightmares but I'd lie and say it didn't. Then, in college, they started Nip/Tuck and I watched all of those.