Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-9605025-20150328164912/@comment-9890645-20150405135942

Andrewds1021 wrote:

Unfortunately, your are correct. There is not much we can do about it. Hollywood does what it wants. Personally, I find it boring when all the movies are the same 1+ hour of running, explosions, and fire fights. But what do I know? Apparently that is the in thing and people just cannot get enough of it.

I am curious, how would you define the difference between generations? At what point do you think preferences changed? The difference is in expectations. The culture has changed a lot in the 40ish years since the first ST movies were released. On an intellectual level, one of two things happen to a person: either they insulate themselves in their ignorance, or they must become so focused on a specialization that they tend towards ignorance in others. We've also gradually become a more self-centered society; we have difficulties with seeing the world from another's perspective, and, thus, have more difficulties with inserting ourselves into the lives of characters who have little in common with us.

When did things change? Probably around 2000, +/-5 years. While there wasn't a singular event that led to the change, there were a lot of contributing factors: the economy, the Internet (specifically, YouTube, and the irony of the use of the Internet to push anti-science/anti-intellectualist ideals), poor parenting (leading to the rise of what I call Special Snowflake Syndrome), video games (but more because of the tendency for players to not socialize properly, especially when given these games at a young age), and a growing tendency towards risk aversion in Hollywood that leads to a lot of formulaic garbage (did we really need SEVEN Fast & Furious movies and, had Paul Walker not died, how many more would we have gotten? Also, since the success of X-Men, we've been inundated with superhero movies; the failure of many DC characters' movies has led to most of the coming movies to feature Marvel characters... While, as a fan of Doctor Strange, I love that there is a DS movie forthcoming, I know it's only happening because Hollywood is going to run water from this well until it's completely dried out.).