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Generation gaps can be indicated by your pop-culture references. I simply don't understand this younger crowd. I played with "Transformers" and "GI Joe" in 3rd grade. They try to talk to me about "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" and "Captain Planet". I watched "Duck Tales". They watched "Darkwing Duck". I can't relate to these people at all. We have nothing in common. 

You can tell you are an adult when Hollywood is producing movies based on your childhood shows and toys. It means people your age are directing and financing blockbusters. If you are of my generation, it's currently our golden age for nostalgia movies. It's kind of like when they made that "Sgt. Bilko" movie with Steve Martin we were all like "what's Sgt. Bilko?" (It was a sitcom in the 60's)

In a few years we will be seeing trailers for the "Beanie Baby" or "Pog" movie and wonder why we don't know anything about those. We will realize we are old and irrelevant and yell, as Shia LaBeouf yelled in "Transformers": NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

 

 

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jpidgeon jpidgeon commented | 4 months ago
 
Welcome to my world. Studios are moving through the '80s stuff right now, and soon will move on to the '90s stuff. There's still '60s and '70s shows being made into movies, but for the most part, it's like you said - my childhood is irrelevant now. Fortunately, there were a lot of cool movies made when I was a teenager that were from the '50s childhoods (i.e, B-movies from the '30s and '40s on TV), so that was pretty good.
 
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