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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haffrung" data-source="post: 7770638" data-attributes="member: 6776259">I'll play devil's advocate here. Big picture, it's worth considering is there's something unhealthy in a society where people's outlooks, preferences, and pass-times don't change between adolescence and mature adulthood. When adults are regarded as teenagers with more money in their pockets. When it's pretty much impossible for a movie to be a big hit unless it appeals to adolescents. Look at the top box office movies over the decades and consider what they say about society. <a href="https://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice2.html" target="_blank">https://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice2.html</a>What did it say about the 1960s that movies like Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Midnight Cowboy, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - movies that few 12 year olds would understand, let alone enjoy - were box office hits? What does it say about the 2010s that virtually all of the biggest earners are fantasies aimed at 12 year olds? What does it say about the changes in tastes that an unapologetically adult movie like Doctor Zhivago would be considered a fringe art-house film if it were released today, instead of enormously popular entertainment? Or that Kramer vs Kramer wouldn't even get wide distribution today, let alone be the #1 top-grossing movie of the year?What does it say about a society when its 45 year olds want to consume the same art and culture that they consumed as 15 year olds?</blockquote>

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