Met a 20yo that never heard of Back to the Future 🤦‍♂️

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

It's not really that remarkable that someone in their early 20s would not be familiar with a 41 year old movie. When I was in my early 20s the cinema of the early 1960s wasn't top of my list either.

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Not just a 41-year-old movie, but one of the hugest movie franchises of its decade. When you were in your early 20s, you probably at least heard of the Pink Panther movies, even if you hadn't seen one. It would be like someone in the 2040s never having heard of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Or someone in the 2050s never having heard of the Hunger Games trilogy.

And there's a difference between "I never saw those films, know nothing about them" and "Is that the name of a movie or something"?

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

I actually would not be surprised if someone in the 2040s was unfamiliar with Pirates, it like BTTF is something that feels very relevant to the people who loved it when it came out but is mostly limited to them. It’s just really not surprising that someone born in the 2000s wouldn’t be familiar with a movie about time traveling from the 80s to the 50s. It’s a very Gen X/Xennial/Early Millennial series to obsess over but has limited appeal for younger people.

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whywires@reddit

Back to the Future has taken a beating in some circles in the last decade or so because of the incest implications. It has a huge cultural impact on some people, but by now it's also the equivalent of us not knowing about, like, The Guns of Navarone.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Which is just so stupid, and another example of everyone wanting to be that Ultimate Edgy Person who is the first to see the "truth" about something popular.

And it's not at all the equivalent of us never having heard of The Guns of Navarone. Back to the Future was a movie that was so huge in the '80s that it forever changed movie merchandise and brand tie-ins. The Guns of Navarone didn't come close to that kind of popularity in its day. It's the equivalent of one us never having heard of The Sound of Music or The Wizard of Oz.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

A beating for that?

Anyway what about West Side Story?
King Kong (1933)
The Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire films, many from the 1940s.
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Casablanca (1940-something)
My Fair Lady
Bring Up Baby (classic 1930s screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn)
Singin' In The Rain
Oklahoma/Carousel/South Pacific as well as The Sound Of Music
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Adventures Of Robinhood (1930s)
Lawrence Of Arabia
Bambi, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio
Vertigo
Dial M For Murder
To Catch A Thief
Charade
Rear Window
The Birds
North By Northwest
The War Of The Worlds (1953)
Rebel Without A Cause
Dracula (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Wolfman (1930s), The Mummy (1930s)
50s/earliest 60s Godzilla movies
at the very least

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ConnectKale@reddit

I was going through my partners old paper backs and found this book. I read it in two days.

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keysandtreesforme@reddit

It came out literally 20 years before he was born. I didn’t know any movies from the 1960’s as a 20 year old (and still know very few).

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aaronwintergreen@reddit

Yeah this is the thing I always think about… I don’t have a deep well of movies I can pull from from the 1940s

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

But that is irrelevant here, because the equivalent would be if you, at 21, never heard of a movie from the '60s, not the '40s.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

But BTTF was 20 years before the guy was born, not 40 so for a Xennial that's more like going back to movies from say 1962 and earlier perhaps). While there are tons most of us prob don't know there is still a solid size list of classics, even if you don't know all of the below, surely a bunch of the biggest of the big of them (I'm surely forgetting a few too):

King Kong (1933)
The Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire films, many from the 1940s.
Silent film stuff like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, etc. way pre-1940s.
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Casablanca (1940-something)
West Side Story (1961)
(My Fair Lady just barely misses qualifying)
Bring Up Baby (classic 1930s screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn)
Singin' In The Rain
Oklahoma/Carousel/South Pacific as well as The Sound Of Music
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Adventures Of Robinhood (1930s)
Marx Brothers (way early)
Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, To Have And Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage
Roman Holiday
High Society
Vertigo
Dial M For Murder
To Catch A Thief
Charade
Rear Window
The Birds
North By Northwest
Lawrence Of Arabia
The War Of The Worlds (1953)
Rebel Without A Cause
Touch Of Evil
The Big Sleep
Double Indemnity
To Have And Have Not
His Girl Friday
Arsenic & Old Lace (pre-60s version)
Bambi, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio
Laura
The Great Dictator
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Dracula (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Wolfman (1930s), The Mummy (1930s)
Citizen Kane
Swing Time
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
50s/earliest 60s Godzilla movies

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Melechesh@reddit

The equivalent is Ben-hur, Spartacus, Psycho, West Side Story, Lawrence of Arabia. Even if you hadn't seen them, surely you had heard of them?

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keysandtreesforme@reddit

You’re right - would have heard of them, but literally not know anything about them.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Okay, but you would have heard of them. That's the point. Obviously there are blockbuster movies we didn't know much about (I didn't see any Marilyn Monroe movies until I was in my 40s), but we heard of them.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Really? You never heard of Psycho? The Pink Panther? The James Bond movies starring Sean Connery?

I don't believe you. I think you just haven't thought this through.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Hmm maybe it's different for slightly older X (which I am, pre-Xennial) but for us (and I think still mostly Xennials to though no?):

TV would show all sorts of movies from 1920s-1960s before we were born.

When I was a little kid most of the cartoons I watched were made in the 1930s-1950s (a few in the 1960s). (OK this is prob different for Xennials).

They'd also show Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s! for kids on PBS. Old Tarzan serials from 1930s/1940s.

Silent film comedians from 1920s. Our Gang/Little Rascals 1920s/1930s.

Some 1950s TV and tons of 1960s TV (our teen movies would regularly reference 1950s and 1960s TV shows and expect us to get the references and we did; like see Back To The Future referencing The Honeymooners or Ferris Bueller referencing I Dream Of Jeannie, etc. etc.).

1933 King Kong was our first King Kong!

We've seen the Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire films. Silent film stuff like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, etc. Were raised on all the old classics like Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, West Side Story, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Singin' In The Rain, Oklahoma/Carousel/South Pacific as well as The Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady, 2001, Bring Up Baby (classic 1930s screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn), The Wizard Of Oz, The Adventures Of Robinhood (1930s), Marx Brothers, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, To Have And Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Roman Holiday, High Society, Vertigo, Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief, Charade, Rear Window, The Birds, North By Northwest, Bonnie & Clyde, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Lawrence Of Arabia, The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby, Masquerade, The War Of The Worlds (1953), Enter The Dragon, Rebel Without A Cause, Touch Of Evil, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, To Have And Have Not, His Girl Friday, Arsenic & Old Lace (pre-60s), Bambi, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Laura, The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Bicycle Thief, Dracula (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Wolfman (1930s), The Mummy (1930s), Citizen Kane, Swing Time, It Happened One Night, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, Romeo & Juliet (1968), 50s/60s Godzilla movies, etc. etc.

That when we were really little kids home video nights mean going to the library and renting a 16mm projector and then checking out some decades old serials/shorts, like Lone Ranger and Zorro and 1930s Dracula, The Mummy, Wolfman, The Invisible Man. (OK yeah this part is first wave X only and not Xennial at all)

On TV we saw lots of shows from the 60s (or even 50s): original Star Trek, Batman, I Dream Of Jeannie, Bewitched, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Lost In Space, Flipper, Mission Impossible, Wacky Races, The Adams Family, My Favorite Martian, The Avengers, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Odd Couple, I Love Lucy, even Hawaii Five'O and Columbo and The Brady Bunch started in the 60s. The Honeymooners, with this one hell one local station here has been showing that continuously to this day since the 70s and probably the 50s!

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Unique-Accountant253@reddit

Not even any westerns with Eastwood? (Dollar trilogy)

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RevolutionaryEcho460@reddit

Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins. These all seemed very popular in th 80s/90s.

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keysandtreesforme@reddit

Good call - definitely saw 2 of those - Mary Poppins and Sound of Music, but probably wouldn’t have if the songs weren’t so well-known and entrenched. Can’t think of any non-musical I saw from the 60’s.

I remember thinking how boring movies from that era seemed.

I just don’t think we can expect young people to see more than a couple movies from that long before they were born.

There are so many that feel like must-see’s to us - but there’s just no way kids are spending that much time watching old movies. It’s hard enough to keep up with all the new stuff coming out.

Major news events feel the same way! We lived through so much that feels like ‘well, you have to know all about that’ - but it really is challenging just to be well-informed about the stuff that happens in your own lifetime, much less previously.

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Few-Helicopter-3413@reddit

I came from a Movie Family, so I was very familiar with 60s and 70s movies in my 80s childhood. Those were the ones my parents grew up watching and showed us. Now my kids watch all of those, plus the many 90s and 00s movies that followed. They’d be horrified to hear of someone who’d never seen BTTF, let alone heard of it. But again, Movie Family.

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Peanut083@reddit

I played Twenty Questions last week with an 18 year old who was given Forrest Gump as the person she had to guess. I knew she would have no idea and gave her a hint by telling her that the character was played by Tom Hanks. She didn’t have any idea who Tom Hanks was, which blew my mind given how extensive his filmography is.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

I mean ... he's still a popular working actor! It would be like growing up in the '80s and not ever having heard of Wilford Brimley. Maybe you didn't see his most famous roles, but you would have at least heard of him. He was still in things.

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YourGuyK@reddit

I assume thats how my dad feels when I say I haven't seen his favorite western from when he was a kid.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

But you probably would have at least heard of a mega hit like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. At least by the age of 20.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

but still you have a partial point there a slews of Westerns and Elvis beach movies and such that many to most of us probably have not seen.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Granted I'm somewhat earlier X than Xennial but Xennials seemed to know a hell of a lot about 80s movies and seemed about the most up on prior stuff of any gen ever so this probably largely all applies too (although some of the cartoons statements and stuff are probably offbase for you).

We were familiar with some of the major stars of the past like Humphrey Bogart, Vivien Leigh, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Fay Wray, Cary Grant, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Buster Crabbe, Johnny Weismuller, James Dean, Marylin Monroe, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Mitzi Gaynor, Shirley Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Olivia de Havilland, Peter O'Toole, Kim Novak, Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Ava Gardner, Eva Marie Saint, Lawrence Olivier, Errol Flynn, Mae West, etc. etc.

TV would show all sorts of movies from 1920s-1960s before we were born.

When I was a little kid most of the cartoons I watched were made in the 1930s-1950s (a few in the 1960s).

They'd also show Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s! for kids on PBS. Old Tarzan serials from 1930s/1940s.

Silent film comedians from 1920s. Our Gang/Little Rascals 1920s/1930s.

Some 1950s TV and tons of 1960s TV (our teen movies would regularly reference 1950s and 1960s TV shows and expect us to get the references and we did; like see Back To The Future referencing The Honeymooners or Ferris Bueller referencing I Dream Of Jeannie, etc. etc.).

1933 King Kong was our first King Kong!

We've seen the Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire films. Silent film stuff like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, etc. Were raised on all the old classics like Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, West Side Story, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Singin' In The Rain, Oklahoma/Carousel/South Pacific as well as The Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady, 2001, Bring Up Baby (classic 1930s screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn), The Wizard Of Oz, The Adventures Of Robinhood (1930s), Marx Brothers, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, To Have And Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Roman Holiday, High Society, Vertigo, Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief, Charade, Rear Window, The Birds, North By Northwest, Bonnie & Clyde, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Lawrence Of Arabia, The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby, Masquerade, The War Of The Worlds (1953), Enter The Dragon, Rebel Without A Cause, Touch Of Evil, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, To Have And Have Not, His Girl Friday, Arsenic & Old Lace (pre-60s), Bambi, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Laura, The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Bicycle Thief, Dracula (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Wolfman (1930s), The Mummy (1930s), Citizen Kane, Swing Time, It Happened One Night, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, Romeo & Juliet (1968), 50s/60s Godzilla movies, etc. etc.

That when we were really little kids home video nights mean going to the library and renting a 16mm projector and then checking out some decades old serials/shorts, like Lone Ranger and Zorro and 1930s Dracula, The Mummy, Wolfman, The Invisible Man. (OK yeah now this section of my old post won't apply to Xennials but only first wave X).

On TV we saw lots of shows from the 60s (or even 50s): original Star Trek, Batman, I Dream Of Jeannie, Bewitched, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Lost In Space, Flipper, Mission Impossible, Wacky Races, The Adams Family, My Favorite Martian, The Avengers, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Odd Couple, I Love Lucy, even Hawaii Five'O and Columbo and The Brady Bunch started in the 60s. The Honeymooners, with this one hell one local station here has been showing that continuously to this day since the 70s and probably the 50s!

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Still we did tend to see a lot of the super classics from the 1920s-1960s (and for Xennials add in 1970s and even 1980s for the younger ones).

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don51181@reddit (OP)

Yeah when I am at my in-laws and they are watching western tv shows. Some of the actors look familiar but I am usually lost.

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TrustAffectionate966@reddit

Imagine asking a 20-year old in 1985 if they’ve seen The Time Machine… the 1960 film hahah. That would’ve only been 25 years before. Back To The Future is 41 years ago. ☠️

🍿🦄

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Eh many had seen lots of the biggest movies from decades before.

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memymomeddit@reddit

It was 41 years ago. I wouldn't expect a 20 year old to have heard of it any more than I would expect someone my age to have heard of 12 Angry Men in 1998.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

I don't earlier gens did seem to know a decent number of the mega classics going back decades.

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betelgeuse206265@reddit

I mean, the movies did come out something like 15- 20 years before they were born. Can you tell me what was the hot movie of 1958?

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

South Pacific!
The Blob (but I do like the 1988 remake more)

hell 1939: Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz

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Careless-Ad-6328@reddit

I've noticed a trend over time... the younger someone is, the shorter the window on what they'll "go back" to watch. GenX and elder Millennials I know watch stuff going back decades before they were born. I grew up watching a lot of "classics". But as time goes on, that outer older limit has shrunk dramatically. Today I know kids in their 20s who haven't watched much of anything that was released earlier than 2000. They just aren't interested in stuff that was much before when they were born.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

yeah it's weird but I guess another thing the internet/streaming ruined

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

I met Bill Murray's son today. He's the new football coach at Boston College, where I work. I told a 20-something grad student and they were like "Bill who?"

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

you can't be serious?

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PleaseDontBanMe82@reddit

Monoculture is dead. Most of the gen z people i work with never heard of a bunch of 80s stuff.

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GhostKingHoney@reddit

Well.... I'm 44... And never watched them until the COVID lockdowns.

I have no explanation as to how they avoided me for all my life and I thought they were fantastic!

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Nadathug@reddit

People in their 20s today are more likely to have gone through adolescence without cable or seeing old movies on tv, because they only had streaming services and just watched the shows and movies they selected. It’s not like how it was for kids in the 90s, where we knew about the movies and tv shows our parents watched because of reruns and Blockbuster.

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

You had to watch your parents boring movies because they might have tits

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ConnectKale@reddit

That’s so wild to me. My kid is in his 20’s and is very familiar with a lot of the movies I grew up watching because we would watch them together. My oldest kids and my niece were introduced to Labyrinth and David Bowie because I introduced it. Parents yah, gotta do better.

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jasonrubik@reddit

Why rewatch those old movies when there's so much new stuff that is way better?!? /s

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Dismal-Kangaroo6327@reddit

My kid is in her early 20s and 80s and 90s movies tend to be her favorites. I agree, parents gotta do better!

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Taskerst@reddit

Not to mention they’ve had half of the time to absorb triple or quadruple the amount of media that we had. They’d have to watch movies 24/7 their whole lives to catch up to what we absorbed naturally.

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NoOccasion4759@reddit

Yep, flipping on the TV and watching whatever was on or choosing the least shitty of several shitty options, is not really a thing anymore. Or even watching something after having missed a significant portion of it and just going with it.

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keysandtreesforme@reddit

Even then, I knew few if any movies from the 60’s.

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icybowler3442@reddit

I recently had the pleasure of sitting on a plane next to a kid (10-12) who was watching BTTF for the first time. She was giggling out loud through the scene where Biff chases Marty through the town square in 1955, which is why I noticed she was watching BTTF. Later, I looked over and George was clenching his fist to hit Biff. George swung and the girl punched the air triumphantly, it was so awesome.

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ConnectKale@reddit

These are the same kids whose parents played Star Wars beginning with Episode One.

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

I knew a guy in college who was a huge SW fan. He'd always get so mad every time I would call the one from '77 the first one

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jasonrubik@reddit

"first one made" , duh ?! Geez Louise. 😂

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Key-Demand-2569@reddit

Fun reminder that Revenge of the Sith came out 21 years ago.

So yeah probably.

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yinchanvo@reddit

Do he does not know Rick & Morty is a parody of it?

Or who the professor head in Wednesday Season 2 was a reference to?

He doesn't know Michael J. Fox or what he is known for?

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ProduceEmbarrassed97@reddit

We did a Christmas quiz at work a few years ago full of standard Christmassy type stuff: How many presents are there in the song 12 days of christmas? Where does eggnog originate? That type of stuff.

Comes to: In season 7 of Friends, what does Ross come to the Christmas fancy dress party dressed as? 3 guys in the office are 20, 20, and 21. 2 go 'What's Friends?', third one says 'is that the one with the people on a break?, My parents love it'.

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greenbud420@reddit

I don't blame them, movie loses some of its charm when "the future" was 11 years ago.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

Great point

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Rich-Truth5329@reddit

I quote BTTF almost daily in some fashion or another.

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demipopthrow@reddit

Heavy

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ChiefSampson@reddit

Is there some sort of problem with gravity in the future?

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farfrompukenjc@reddit

my daily bttf quote is “ he’s an idiot. it comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots too.

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Floundering_Dad_43@reddit

Whenever I work with someone on something they've never done before, I either say, or think about saying, "This is a blues riff in B. Watch me for the changes and try to keep up"

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graveybrains@reddit

You may have been ready for that, but your kids don't know shit about it

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username32768@reddit

Whenever I fuck up at work (which is often) or have a "senior" moment (which is oftener) I say to myself "McFly!..." and tap myself on the forehead.

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LeftOn4ya@reddit

One of my favorite things to watch on YouTube is Reactions to Back to the Future to people who have never seen it before. Most people heard of it before it was requested but they all enjoyed it even Gen Z and A.

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Tight-Courage4100@reddit

How sadly deprived.

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1ndomitablespirit@reddit

It's our fault. Rather than spend time showing them quality movies, we just shoveled shitty kiddie movies in their face until middle school so they'd be quiet. No wonder the young generation has terrible taste.

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buppiejc@reddit

Their taste is no different than ours. There were plenty of artists during our time that are cringe now. Vanilla Ice and Millie Vinilli come to mind.

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winniecooper73@reddit

Go ninja go ninja go

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storey13@reddit

All my kids know about BTTF because I mentioned something about it at least once a week. :-)

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Konnorwolf@reddit

This would be like a movie from 1960 when I was twenty. Feels like it's still something you were here about. However, like others have said we were exposed to a lot of older shows and movies as there was limited media vs today. You basically have to seek out everything these days unless you so happen to run into it.

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Do_it_My_Way-79@reddit

I blame his parents.

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Just-Try-2533@reddit

My kid (23) actually watched this last weekend. She watched Nirvana the Band (The Movie) and wanted to understand it better. So we rewatched it and it was every bit as good as I remember. But man does it move fast by today’s standards.

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mattchewy43@reddit

I blame their parents.

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Hot-Parsley-6193@reddit

I made a career change and am being trained by a 24 year old. He asks me, “do you know any 80s movies?”

I said, “yes, but back then we just called them ‘movies’”

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Objective-Ad5620@reddit

Hey I saw a kid who was like ten or so wearing a BTTF shirt at Disneyland this weekend and I thought to myself “that’s parenting done right”.

To be fair it is a 40-year-old movie. And still the best trilogy out there.

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YinzaJagoff@reddit

One of the best movies ever made

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pendejo-san@reddit

I never went to oovoo javier

https://youtu.be/QuxilCgJWrg?si=eFqAehIkiaBlvjFP

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chickenscottpie@reddit

When I was young, I hated the smarmy 40-somethings who were absolute jerks about “You haven’t seen such and such movie!?” or “You don’t know this or that band!?” or whatever. Come on. Let’s not expect people to be intimately familiar with pop culture from decades before they were born. We’re better than the Boomers who did this to us. Let’s be the generation that breaks this cycle.

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don51181@reddit (OP)

Yeah I was not rude about it. I just told them what type of music ZZ Top is and recommended the Back To the Future movie. I understand everyone has different childhoods as well.

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reallyintothistho@reddit

Agreeed! Sometimes I can’t help my shocked reaction but I always follow it up with, “I think you would love it!” Or something that highlights why I think it’s great or it’s cultural significa so they actually WANT to check it out. I encountered too many assholes that made me feel like a poser or lame because I hadn’t listened to some obscure band or some old movie. Let’s not do this to the kids please.

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mrnoonan81@reddit

Eh. They just had a Back to the Future colab in Fortnite. They may not have been the target audience, but I'm still guessing that kid's an outlier.

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NoOccasion4759@reddit

Eeeeh. Most of Gen Z or A has not watched a lot of the 80s classics, LBR. Unless their parents specifically showed it to them. Ive been having my kids watch 80s movies lately (the PG ones lol) and they have seen BTTF 1 and 2. Pronounced them fun but otherwise, moved on.

Some things just hit different for different generations.

You know the 80s/90s movie EVERYBODY young seems to have watched and loved? Home Alone 1 and 2. All my students clamor for that movie every Xmas, my kids love that movie too. Something about being left completely alone to fend for oneself and one's home against malicious adults, I guess hits different for generations used to being micro-managed by their parents.

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Aggressive_Power_471@reddit

Most kids have a phone but there is so much you could look up right? So I think unless they hear it from someone or it is a tik tok trend, they just don't know about it.

I had never heard Running Up That Hill before Stranger Things. I hate it. i definitely knew Master of Puppets though.

Elizabeth Taylor for me is the lady that sells the diamonds perfume. (Technically I know she is an actress but I never watched her movies growing up.) My parents watched new movies, not old ones. The older ones I have watched have been recommendations from friends or theatre people like Meet Me in St Louis, Easter Parade, Wizard of Oz, The Godfather series, Scarface and I am sure others I cannot think of.

When I mention something someone does not know, I encourage them to check it out if they need something to watch.

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