I apologize if someone's already mentioned it, but my biggest gripe with this era is that there are no more Saturday cartoons. That's just blasphemy in my book.

vkimo wrote :

Really hate how people simply don't know how to just sit/stand and do nothing. I've been in line at the bank and peep at people over their shoulders on the phones and realize they're literally just flipping back and fourth between apps or something. Not responding to a text or checking emails....just on the phone. It's actually quite bizarre. When I'm in waiting rooms and everyone is on their phone I like to sit really upright and stare blankly across the room, although I could probably strip down to my underoos and no one would notice.


Ever see groups of kids walking down the street, and they're all on their phones? Who the hell are you interacting with, when all of your friends are there in person?!
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The same thing happened to me with the doctor's waiting room two fridays ago. There were five other people in the small waiting room and only one of them wasn't on some kind of device. An older man on his phone, a middle aged guy(he wasn't even a patient, i think he was some kind of medicine salesman) had his phone and a tablet and a younger man and woman that were together(boyfriend/girlfriend of husband/wife) and they were both on their phones. I know it is boring and takes a long time in a waiting room but it's not that hard to just sit there and wait or just think or the super crazy thing of actually talking to the other people in the room.

@kidcoffee: I don't know if that's been mentioned or not, but I agree wholeheartedly.

@kidcoffee:

Yes it is! Proof that TV is dead. The folks could've seen this current Saturday morning stuff on Animal Planet or the National Geographic Channel!

Halloween.

The movie Halloween was scary to us as kids. Violent, gruesome, and frightening. But it wasn't disturbing to me. None of the old "slasher" movies were disturbing. They were silly, poorly executed, popcorn flicks that were "fun".

Having sat through just a few scenes of the Halloween remake from 2007, available on YouTube, I can plainly see that Rob Zombie wanted to add that element to it. And that ruins it for me.

Though I no longer watch horror movies, I still appreciate the 80's slasher movies. Full of cheese, terrible dialogue, no name actors, and paper thin plots. But today's horror films are so much darker and disturbing. They're no fun. They only serve to take you on a trip to the absolute bottom of morality and make you wallow there. And then they serve up the most realistic gore ever seen and stick your face in it. Why does anyone want to be in that place? How is that entertaining? What part of us does that appeal to?

Whatever part that may be, I lack it.

How people like the Kardashians and Todd Chrisley get all the fame and fortune. People no one cares about.

Vaporman87 wrote :

Halloween.

The movie Halloween was scary to us as kids. Violent, gruesome, and frightening. But it wasn't disturbing to me. None of the old "slasher" movies were disturbing. They were silly, poorly executed, popcorn flicks that were "fun".

Having sat through just a few scenes of the Halloween remake from 2007, available on YouTube, I can plainly see that Rob Zombie wanted to add that element to it. And that ruins it for me.

Though I no longer watch horror movies, I still appreciate the 80's slasher movies. Full of cheese, terrible dialogue, no name actors, and paper thin plots. But today's horror films are so much darker and disturbing. They're no fun. They only serve to take you on a trip to the absolute bottom of morality and make you wallow there. And then they serve up the most realistic gore ever seen and stick your face in it. Why does anyone want to be in that place? How is that entertaining? What part of us does that appeal to?

Whatever part that may be, I lack it.
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Watch cannibal holocaust from 1980. It's very good. What are some of the newer horror movies you are talking about? There are lots of bad ones but also lots of good ones.

Change isn't always good. Like how they changed the Toys 'R' Us mascot.



He's been transformed multiple times, but this isn't very good. It's still better than the 2001 look.

Jrs1991 wrote :

Watch cannibal holocaust from 1980. It's very good.
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"Cannibal Holocaust achieved notoriety as its graphic violence aroused a great deal of controversy. After its premiere in Italy, it was ordered to be seized by a local magistrate, and Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges. He was later charged with making a snuff film due to rumors that claimed some actors were killed on camera. Although Deodato was later cleared, the film was banned in Italy, Australia, and several other countries due to its portrayal of graphic brutality, sexual assault, and violence toward animals."

shakin steak wrote :

Jrs1991 wrote :


Watch cannibal holocaust from 1980. It's very good.
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I think Jrs was actually mentioning Cannibal Holocaust precisely because it contradicted my view of 80's horror movies.

Which, if that is the case, I have to reply that I understand some films from the 80's could conjure up the same level of disgust that today's horror does (take Faces of Death for example). But overall, it's easy to see that the darker, "torture" style horror movies are nowhere near as "fun" as the popcorn slasher films of the 80's. I couldn't see myself coming out of a film like Hostel or Saw (insert number here) and laughing. I would instead feel a bit sick to my stomach and upset about what I had just watched.

Then again, I bet those who grew up in the 60's would say something similar about slasher films in the 80's, so I suppose it could be a generational thing that just happens. Still, you can only push the genre so far before you reach a level that is just absurd (Human Centipede??? Really?).