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I don't like movies in general, i prefer reading books

Maybe most people just prefer a more modern style of film. A movie from the 80s is much closer to something today than something from the 30s, even if the time gap is similar.

>>317967
I think that's a pretty interesting observation about Millenial vs Boomer nostalgia. For movies specifically, I'm not sure I can say, despite being quite fond of them. Something that I'd throw out there is that it seems like culture has become increasingly self-memoralizing. By that I mean everyone now is conscious of the fact that entertainment products may become canonized, part of the forever culture. I don't think that people watching The Jazz Singer in 1927 felt this way at all. I think, for them, The Jazz Singer was a fun way to spend an evening and that they would never in a million years think that it would be some sort of watershed moment in one of the most powerful/popular forms of entertainment of the century. I don't think they were consciousness of the potential mythologization of entertainment. As the entertainment canon grew, I think people unconsciously became more and more attached to their experiences with them. If you didn't ever expect your experience of seeing The Jazz Singer was ever going to come up again other than the next week at work, how much would you value that experience? Compare that to, say, movies and entertainment today where the discussion of them is something people partake in – and know they will partake in – basically their whole lives. This isn't really a super complete thought, but I think this is a big part of it.

>>318152
Your mention of self-memorialization reminds me of something I thought about a while back that I think is a good example. Let's take the song Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger. Just listen to the lyrics if you've somehow never heard it.

Hearing it today, the song might make sense in some way, but this is a song that was released in 1979. So what "old time" music is he referring to in the song? Bob Seger was born in 1945, so I think it's safe to assume we're talking about music from the 1950s, which would also be a normal starting place for considering early rock and roll as a genre. Elvis's career began around 1954 so we'll just use that.

So we have a song released in 1979 about music from around 1954 or so, that's a 25 year difference. This would be similar to if someone wrote a song about Linkin Park or Eminem or some shit, calling them "old time" music from the "days of old" enjoyed only by "relics" (not an insult, but a brag about oneself), contrasted with the soulless music of today.

After I realized this, the Bob Seger song became completely absurd. It's like an extreme degree of self-fellation of your own generation. That's how it seems to me at least. Deliberately turning your childhood into a cultural "landmark" of sorts. Probably no one at the time thought anything of it since baby boomers are too far up their own asses, and later generations just incorporate it into the mythology of the sacred "boomer childhood" immortalized in many other depictions of the 50s, etc.

Take pic related as another example? "Where were you in '62?" asks the poster of a film released in 1973, only 11 years later. Where were you in 2014? I think current generations, even if they're fond of their own nostalgia, aren't anywhere near as shameless as this.

>>318207
>Take pic related as another example? "Where were you in '62?" asks the poster of a film released in 1973, only 11 years later. Where were you in 2014? I think current generations, even if they're fond of their own nostalgia, aren't anywhere near as shameless as this.
Tried to embed a Youtube video and post an image at the same time and it didn't work obviously. Here's the image I was referring to.

>>318207
Yeah, it's clear to me that media being recorded in permanent forms is huge. It seems like most people think human civilization started in 1945 after WWII. I know that a lot of historians/social scientists would mark the end of WWII as a global realignment, with Pax Americana beginning. I think that people's reference for "life" beginning with the 1940s is way more strongly influenced by the fact that that is when things began being able to be recorded. It is kind of crazy how big of an anchor the 50s and 60s are in the collective imagination. They were just 2 decades in the span of time.

My sister isn't a boomer but she won't watch any movie that's not in color, instantly dismissing it as "it sucks" simply because it isn't in color.

>>318239
I grew up poor in the 90s and we had a black and white tv for several years, because that's what my dad could afford. I've had friends that turned up their nose about older movies I love like the longest day, because their narrow life experience can't accept black and white films. I put these people in the same basket as picky eaters that make faces when you eat things that they themselves don't like.