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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I grew up with barely any exposure to pop culture.
My parents never actively sheltered me, it just worked out that way.
I tried to catch up with some of what makes up my generation's childhood as an adult but ended up liking one single Disney movie and some anime. None of the 80s and 90s cult movies everyone loves work for me.
Because of this I'm so annoyed at how saturated with nerd nostalgia so much of what's coming out these days is. It makes me feel like a heartless grouch because none of the things everyone has so many positive feelings tied to seem... good. At all.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's just part of storytelling. A lot of works reference classic lit or plays, and the audience is expected to go along with it even if they don't have experience with the works being cited.

[(Anonymous)]

I've found reading some stuff from the 1800s, it seems that the author is sometimes referencing something and I have no idea what, but readers back in the day probably got it.

[dethtoll]

Can't say I really relate. I actually WAS deeply sheltered (my mom was/is very religious and my dad figured if he couldn't have fun as a kid neither could I.) Now I take any chance I get to watch an old classic that I wasn't allowed to watch (which is nearly all of them) and most of the time I find them more enjoyable than something more recent. You know I'd never actually seen the original Terminator until a few years ago? Or Ghostbusters 1 and 2 until last year? I love these movies now.

(At least I got to see the Alien movies when I was a teenager... my school's priest was a fan, believe it or not, and he was happy to indulge my interest.)

[(Anonymous)]

I never thought I'd agree with you on anything, but same for me. My parents were super greenies so TV and pop culture were right out, wouldn't it be more fun to dig the compost? But now it's great, because I can catch up with everything on my own terms!

[(Anonymous)]

Priests and Pastors often aren't half as boring as you'd think. Our pastors had an ongoing rivalry about who was the greater trekkie and one even brought a cardboard picard into church to stage a dialogue with in a sermon about the "future".
I've always been an agnostic but I've come to really appreciate a lot of people with a background in theology. Especially since their ideas about religion are often much more nuanced and reflected than your usual churchgoer's

[(Anonymous)]

sorry your childhood sucked

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me, OP!?

I can't bring myself to enjoy 90's Disney films. The only one I love is Mulan. Beauty and the Beast is also something I enjoy, more of a like than a love, though.

Sometimes I feel alienated from my generation, not in a special-snowflake way, but more in a I-wish-I-could-enjoy-what-you-enjoy way. There are so many movies about witches, which I love! But something about the whole... era of snappy fantasy and comedy and just... -ness of the late 80's to early 00's is just not an aesthetic or writing style that I'm into.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you Mark's twin?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I don't think I was sheltered so much as I missed a lot of stuff because I was poor. Many of the early video games passed me by because we could not afford game consoles and the one time we had one, games themselves weren't cheap, and because I never experienced console game much, I didn't get the feel of playing them so I don't play them now.

Same can be said for movies, though we did have a bit more chance at affording to hire videos, so if we couldn't see them in the cinema, we just waited until they hit video.

Now my missing popular TV shows is more not putting the effort into finding which channel was airing it, so... *Shrug.*

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up with the exposure but I rarely enjoyed popular media. Probably why I'm not particularly nostalgic for the pop culture of my childhood.

[(Anonymous)]

this is stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. I was a "sheltered" child, though I guess I'd say less sheltered and more like my mother was stupidly strict. No TV, no videogames. Occasionally we would rent movies for birthdays and christmas (we had a TV and a VCR, there was just no antenna or cable, so we couldn't watch TV). She also heavily disapproved of pop music and was from an older generation, so it was all either classical or stuff that REALLY old people like, like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan or the Beatles. And frankly, I hated all that music (I've come to appreciate Cohen as a poet, but his singing...>_>;). I was forced to play the violin, though. Quit that as soon as I was able.

As a result, I really do find most of the pop culture of the 90's to be stupid. I don't like any of the music. For example, I only heard Michael Jackson for the first time after his death, and Prince maybe a few years ago. It was... so underwhelming, considering how much people gush about that stuff. I don't see the appeal at all.

I prefer Nicki Minaj or Marina and the Diamonds. I like modern pop. I think Frozen was far more interesting than The Little Mermaid, though I don't really like Disney much to begin with.

I've still never seen like...Ghostbusters, or Labyrinth, or The Dark Crystal... I saw Star Wars quite late, so I never really got into it or understood the appeal. All the Star Wars stuff going on right now is just alien to me. It seems so nostalgia-fueled.

When I was a kids, I mostly read books. So my nostalgia is for like, Tamora Pierce and Animorphs and shit. You wanna talk about Goosebumps? Babysitters club? His Dark Materials? I read like every single 90's childrens' and YA series, I swear. I even read the old stuff, like Dr. Dolittle and the Oz series... Little House on the Prairie... that's nostalgia for me.

[shahrizai]

My family wasn't big on movies and we had farmer vision (CTV, CBC and French CBC lol) so I missed a lot of those cultural touchstones too. I caught Star Wars through the hype for the new movies but that's about all. When I watch old movie franchises I understand why they blew people's minds when they came out, but when you grew up with the special effects from the SW prequels and LoTR, old Star Wars, Terminator and Ghostbusters fall flat.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a lot of the things that give people nostalgia boners (not everything, since my mom was very strict about not watching PG-13 until I was 12 or so, so I missed anything pre-1996), and a lot of it just isn't any good.

Oh, and I saw all the Disney movies as they came out. I've never really liked them. Sure, I "loved" Beauty & the Beast when it came out, but I don't get why adults are still obsessed with it. (Or any Disney, for that matter.)

[lirren]

Not really surprised that you don't love them now. You're an adult watching things that were, for the most part, created for an audience of kids or teenagers. There are some books I adored as a teenager, which I now read and wonder what on earth I was thinking. There are a lot of movies and TV shows that I was addicted to as a tween/teenager that I now think are really mediocre, but my love for them comes from the love I had for them when I was younger. You're not watching these things through the eyes of the intended audience, you're watching them as an adult, with far more life experience than the original audience had when the watched them. The nostalgia comes from remembering how they felt when they first watched the movie/TV show/etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same. I feel ya. Went to a private school that was kinda removed from everything, and we didn't have a TV at home. pop culture kinda was riding my bike to the corner store and buying a mickey mouse magazine. I used to be embarrassed when people noticed I didn't know about stuff, but with half of it, I've caught up and found it very enjoyable, other things I don't care about catching up with. Still, yeah, I can't for the life of me figure out half of the reboot hype like TMNT or Ghost Busters...