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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7770858" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It's probably a lot of other factors. Most notably the major explosion in entertainment options over time. Folks these days have many alternatives to movies. Folks in the 60s or 70s had far fewer. Another would be changes within the industry. Fear of loss means less risks are taken, and so original concepts or ideas are less likely to get far before corporate interference plays a part. Most of the larger studios are looking for tent pole type movies. The kind of drama that you're talking about still exists (for example, "Green Book"), they're just far less likely to be a major focus on a studio's marketing agenda. And also, such material has shifted over to television and streaming media. Not really. Most people get into lots of things when they're young. It could be super hero comics, sure. It could also be sports. It could also be fiction of any sort. It could be just about any leisure activity...bike riding, going to the beach, going to restaurants, board games, cooking.....all manner of activity. Assuming that because someone still enjoys something after years of enjoying it means that they MUST be in some kind of state of arrested development is painting with an incredibly broad brush that would pretty much include everyone everywhere.Edited to clarify: I do think that nostalgia can be taken too far, and that it can possibly be unhealthy. But I think it would have to be a pretty extreme case to qualify.</blockquote>

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