Where is our 'Now and Then'?

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Relative_Progress946@reddit

As children we knew life was going to suck. Gen X made sure we knew that. And now as adults life sucks.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Sorry you're getting the ⬇️ for speaking truth. You're not alone bud. ✊️

"You deserve to be loved, and to feel loved, just for being you." --Mr Rogers mashup with my meditation teacher

That does NOT mean anyone is obliged to endanger themselves or otherwise subject themselves to less than equitable treatment in order to give love to or receive love from others.

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It’s all good. A lot of these “Xennials” are just Millennials claiming to be Xennials in order to escape being a Millennial. And being easily offended, these snowflakes rage against the truth. I just respond with a good ole Gen X eye roll and a sarcastic “Whatever.”

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VampireOnHoyt@reddit

Lady Bird, although that's early 2000s

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Suitable_Garlic_1186@reddit

Hot tub time machine..

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KevDub81@reddit

I was just about to post this!

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Suitable_Garlic_1186@reddit

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PvtHudson093@reddit

The Great White Buffalo

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Suitable_Garlic_1186@reddit

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I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit

I think it was Stranger Things ☹️

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

They only got the aesthetic right in the first season.

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PatchworkGirl82@reddit

I found something to point and recognize loudly about in every season except 4.

Karen eavesdropping on Mike's phone calls is very relatable, and I used the same video store computer at my job (and yes, sometimes I would spy on people's rental histories)

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VaselineHabits@reddit

S1 is still great television, just stop there

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

I actually loved the whole thing including the ending, though I know I’m in the minority.

But what I did feel is that S1 had all the elements of a 1980s or early 90s movie about kids solving problems the adults in their lives had no idea were even happening (except Will’s mom, of course, but in that first season she was an outcast/laughingstock, so it makes sense that she was included among the kids in a way).

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

And that was a decade earlier anyways.

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

1983

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

For some reason I glossed completely over

about '80s and

😅

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Ew.

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

8-Bit Christmas.

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

I really love that movie! There’s some elements of our childhood that the really got right.

But what they got wrong were NES graphics!

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

On the NES graphics in that movie. Nintendo is pretty draconian with their IP so they probably had to get creative. Overall it hit pretty well and my Gen Alpha kids enjoyed/related to it.

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Defiant_Cookie_4963@reddit

Good one!

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

It wouldn't be a coming of age moving, it would be political. They would cast abrasive 12 years old girls bitching about the patriarchy as their mothers cry proud emotional with heavy botox looking like creeps. One of the mothers will be a real estate agent and all of them will gather in an empty house that is up for sale where they will all practice witchcraft and summon a demon. Lets be glad they didn't do a remake.

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sweetbirthdaybaby333@reddit

Not a movie, but... Yellowjackets?

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Emergency_Process622@reddit

It's so good

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lavasca@reddit

Yaaaaaaaaaas!!!

Would also love a reboot of Romy & Michelle for us.

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dreadpiratemyk@reddit

The soundtrack kicks SOOOO much ass.

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HorribleDear@reddit

That’s Alanis Morrisette on the opening track!

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ironic-hat@reddit

They already made it back in 1995. It was called “Kids”.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

And Clerks. Yes they're solidly GenX, but it was the vibe teen us was looking up to.

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ironic-hat@reddit

Honestly the reason why don’t have many nostalgia movies like Forest Gump or the Sandlot was because the movies made in our youth are readily accessible on Netflix or HBO, so we can easily watch them and get the “authentic vibes” from things like Pulp Fiction.

We also grew up during an era where film makers could be more raw (see Kids). So unlike the Baby Boomers who had censors who would quash a movie like that in the 60s, we got it. Having a kid say “Fuck” in the movies in the actual 60s would be shocking, in the 80s and 90s… not a problem.

So yeah nostalgia movies hit hard for boomers who wanted to see their youth portrayed authentically.

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