• blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if it has anything to do with the age of the target audience? What did boomers find familiar in movies from a couple decades ago?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      What did boomers find familiar in movies from a couple decades ago?

      Ubermensch killshooty protagonists with no meaningful flaws (their flaws are generally celebrated or actually a source of strength in the fiction) that win all the time and are kind of creeps, or worse. Clint Eastwood movies and Connery-era James Bond comes to mind. :grillman:

      Gen-X had something like it when mid-life crises set in, which was "grizzled middle aged man must avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his dubiously sexualized daughter figure from them." :cringe:

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        grizzled middle aged man must avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his dubiously sexualized daughter figure from them

        Aka divorced dad porn