[Tamar1973]

In other words, Gen X are supposed to grow up? We are supposed to be video store clerks forever? As a less than 40 something Gen Xer that is ludicrous. These critics read too much of their own press.

[pabianice]

But... but... movies are, like, so relevant and integral to, like, life and everything...

[spinestein]

[...well-dressed fortysomething urbanites drifting aimlessly around city streets, staring at total strangers and ruminating on the nature of human intimacy, then returning home to sham marriages and alienated children, eating their dinner in silence and spending most of the night staring into the bathroom mirror, wondering in quasi-poetic internal monologue about the fact that we are all, on some unspeakably profound level, like, totally connected to everyone else.]



I don't want to know people like this.

[Red Badger]

Leading lives of quiet desperation...........

[RegulatorCountry]

"well-dressed fortysomething urbanites drifting aimlessly around city streets, staring at total strangers and ruminating on the nature of human intimacy, then returning home to sham marriages and alienated children, eating their dinner in silence and spending most of the night staring into the bathroom mirror, wondering in quasi-poetic internal monologue about the fact that we are all, on some unspeakably profound level, like, totally connected to everyone else."

Blue staters.

[2banana]

HOW TO TELL X FROM Zzz

WEARS

Gen X: Old jeans, ironic Phantom of the Opera T-shirt (Slacker), greasy hair, goatee if male, “wacky” nylons and Doc Martens, if female
Gen Zzz: Permanent expression of careworn angst because of baffling nature of the Universe

LIVES

X: In parent’s house, but it’s only temporary until recording contract kicks in
Zzz: In suburban community with brood of money-sucking yet essentially life-affirming rugrats (We Don’t Live Here Anymore)

WORKS

X: In dead-end McJob at Gap or Burger World (Reality Bites), while playing in crazy grunge band on Friday nights
Zzz: In the District Attorney’s office (Thirteen Conversations), but listens to Coldplay at weekends

DRIVES

X: A battered ’56 Ford
Zzz: Gas-guzzling guilt-inducing and (in the case of Crash) eminently car-jackable SUV

READS

X: Heidegger’s Being and Time in local café (Reality Bites). Otherwise just watches I Love Lucy repeats.
Zzz: The Death of Ivan Illyich by Tolstoy (We Don’t Live Here Anymore), then bores companions to death with personal musings on the essence of truth

SAYS

X: (Sneering) “I’d like to live forever, but only for a little while” (Stephen Dorff in SFW)
Zzz: (Whining) “I want what everyone wants. To experience life, to wake up enthused, to be happy.” (John Turturro in Thirteen Conversations)

BLAMES

X: The parents. “Everybody’s parents f**ked them up. Rich kids’ parents gave them too much, poor kids not enough. Too much attention, not enough attention. They either left them or they stuck around and taught them the wrong things.” Jesse (Ethan Hawke) in Before Sunrise
Zzz: Urban planning. “In any real city you walk. People brush past you, people bump into you. In LA, nobody touches you. We’re behind this metal and glass.” Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) in Crash.

[RedRover]

Film critics also assume that movies that no sees actually count as a popular phenomenon.

[badpacifist]

Eating their dinner in silence and spending most of the night staring into the bathroom mirror

Thats the way I picture most of Hollyweird

[Tamar1973]

Gen X ping material?

[Army Air Corps]

My moments of introspection go something like this:

How can I be a better disciple?

How can I be a better son, nephew, cousin, etc.

Why the hell didn't I buy K-Mart stock when it was at pennies a share?

Basically, I do not engage in the selfish twaddle that is angst. Such silliness is a waste of what precious time we have.

[mabelkitty]

Let's see...me and my under 40, but over 35 year old friends:
Go to Karoake, go bowling (no leagues),have costume parties, go to fairs and amusement parks, have dinner parties, play poker at home, go to casinos, play bloodsport Monopoly, go to steak frys, join private clubs, go to concerts, do crafts, and work.

Entertainment lasts longer when its active and not passive. Movies are passe.

Oh, and we all surf the 'net of course.

[TheForceOfOne]

If you're unhappy and you know it...

Show your Democratic Party voter registration card and clap you hands on your head, repeatedly. (closed fist optional)