Do you find yourself telling the youngins, "Just... watch it."

I sympathize with you greatly. I tried to get my kid to watch "The Hobbit" (1978) and she hated it. No patience for that theme warble, "The greaaaaaatest adventure..." I began to see the whole thing through her eyes and realized that yes, the theme song DOES suck. But she really frustrated me by refusing to watch any more of it, or to appreciate the cool voice acting & Arthur Rackham-style art by a precursor to Studio Ghibli: "ADHD -- TOO STRONG! Can't fight it... any longer!" I tried showing her Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder (1971), but first she got all kvetchy & restless with the "Candyman" musical intro (we had to fast forward it) and then she got scared with the psychedelic boat tunnel & we had to turn off the TV. When she got older, I tried to show her LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), which I thought was a gorgeous, classic piece of cinema. But NOOOOO... she couldn't handle it: "Too slow moving, then TOO S-S-SCARY!" We had to turn it off at the first appearance of the Black Riders. The only thing she can handle as a teen is watching video-game play-throughs or hyperactive anime or Gen Z comedy Vine-type video shorts AT THE SAME TIME AS playing a video game on her Nintendo Switch WHILE a group chat of her friends is pinging away on her phone. She chooses to watch some pretty intense horror game playthroughs nowadays. If she had found them ON HER OWN as a younger teen or tween, she might have been fine with these. She rejects any music or movie I recommend purely because she or her peers didn't find them. I daydream about being able to show her "Repo Man" (1984) -- But I know I never will. I can imagine the reactions: "It's too sloooooow." "I don't get the references." (This one I can kind of have sympathy for.) "The music is awful!" (You don't like Iggy Pop? Circle Jerks? !!!! No, kids, YOUR vocaloid j-pop/k-pop hyper-bubblegum plastic TikTok-OST neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie nightcore music is awful!) "Whut? Why is the humor so random and stand-alone? This is not referring to anything in the current acceptable cannon of LOL memes! This is c-c-CRINGE! I mean 'You find one in every car...' and 'Plate O'Shrimp'...WHAT DUZ THAT EVEN MEEEEEAN?!"