tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179545922823777870.post4174688765277750060..comments2023-07-04T06:47:26.125-04:00Comments on Everything In The Medicine Cabinet Has Expired: Indiana JonesSpencer Troxellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03750605353914336538noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179545922823777870.post-65186189605742984262008-05-26T13:25:00.000-04:002008-05-26T13:25:00.000-04:00Great post.I'm 31 and it's hard to get across to d...Great post.<BR/><BR/>I'm 31 and it's hard to get across to different generations what Indiana Jones means to me...<BR/><BR/>He was THE Hero of our youth, without a doubt, and it wasn't just the character, it was the fact that the movies were all top quality(yes, even Temple of Doom, which destroys almost any action movie of modern times still) and have all three become classics of the genre, particularly Raiders.<BR/><BR/>I worry about the next generation, as they just don't have the quality of entertainment that we grew up on. Really. Movies today are so pre-packaged and artless and increasingly aimed at smaller kids and an "ADD demographic". It wasn't like that when we were growing up.<BR/><BR/>Raiders of the Lost Ark and the first Star Wars movie held our attention just fine, but younger kids today supposedly have a hard time sitting through these films. Where is the Karate Kid for todays' generation? Where is the Rocky? Where is the Indiana Jones or Star Wars? Even the new Star Wars didn't hold up to the originals on so many levels.<BR/><BR/>And for older kids, where is the Predator or Die Hards? Where are the Rambos or Total Recalls or Terminators? Action movies today just don't hold a candle to these films, and manly men doing manly things have been replaced by either outright kid stuff or metrosexuals acting out the parts that used to be the parts "men" played.<BR/><BR/>And beyond action movies, where are the teen movies today that are even remotely as good as the kind of stuff we got from John Hughes back in the day?(The Breakfast Club, Ferris, etc.)<BR/><BR/>And I don't think this is just a "in my day stuff was better!" type phenomenon. Popular entertainment was objectively better then, in regards to blockbuster movies aimed at kids and adults alike(Raiders, Karate Kid, etc.) than it is now.<BR/><BR/>It's really kind of depressing - but at least we have all the classics from our era to show our kids, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com