Why were "adult" directors able to get us in the 80's & 90's, but today's are less than clueless?

Posted by ManicOppressyv@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 392 comments

I was talking to a co-worker about Heather's (I said "well fuck me gently with a chainsaw") and it got me thinking about Pump Up the Volume, Gleaming the Cube, Rad, Clueless, all of John Hughes movies, hell most movies were aimed at us. Now that our generation has been making films for 30+ years, why can't they do anything interesting? It can't all be studio interference.