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It's official...Generation Y is definitely brain dead

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Neroon said:
If the MTV Movie Awards had more pull, more credibility in the industry, then there'd be more cause for concern. But... I doubt they've ever been seen as anything other than a party on TV. The only time I ever watched them was when "The Two Towers" came out, and I wanted to see what they'd pull out for the spoof. It was there Gollum acceptance speech, which was a side-splitter.
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That speech won the Hugo for best drama short form and if you value your life don't mention the speech within striking distance of TerriO. ;)
 
^^Always depends on who you ask. My older brother (1960) is a Baby Boomer. My sister, just 2.5 years younger than him, is most often counted as a BB, but by a few counts is not. Then there's me, who was born well into Gen-X (1969).
 
Oh it is not just Transformers. We can just start a list of bad movies and TV shows that have come out that people love. And to be fair it is not just Gen Y, there are plenty of dumb Baby Boomers and Gen Xers around too. I mean Gen Xers are the parents of the idiots after all. :lol:
 
Galactus said:
Oh it is not just Transformers. We can just start a list of bad movies and TV shows that have come out that people love. And to be fair it is not just Gen Y, there are plenty of dumb Baby Boomers and Gen Xers around too. I mean Gen Xers are the parents of the idiots after all. :lol:
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You're talking teens here. A lot of their parents are Boomers. Many of whom waited to have kids. A good number of Gen-Xers were teens themselves when these kids were born.
 
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You forgot that a lot of Gen Xers had children as teens themselves, so a lot of them are the next gen parents, which is why I say it is their fault.
 
Galactus said:
You forgot that a lot of Gen Xers had children as teens themselves, so a lot of them are the next gen parents, which is why I say it is their fault.
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Not that many. :vulcan:

Not even a handful in my high school, with 1800 students.

Besides many of the kids you're talking about would have grown up in single-parent households, most of which are poor, likely not able to afford MTV.
 
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Caligula said:
FreezeC77 said:
'65 to '82 = Generation X
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Hmm.... By that count, I just barely make the cut. Cool, I guess.
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Same here...and I liked Transformers (both of them while I'm at it, the 80s animated movie and the 2007 live action) it was great. Granted it was pure fanservice for people like me who grew up with the show and the toys in the 80s but still a damn fine entertaining movie nonetheless. I'd say the one who's braindead is the one who doesn't possess the capacity to enjoy a simplistic action movie, personally. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah that's right, (I was born in 82 and will be 26 this year) and for the record: Never was a fan of MTV much less since they became "Music-less" Television, thus losing the right to their namesake and even my passing interest. :p
 
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zakkrusz said:
Yeah that's right, (I was born in 82 and will be 26 this year) and for the record: Never was a fan of MTV much less since they became "Music-less" Television, thus losing the right to their namesake and even my passing interest. :p
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I hear that. :lol: What were the other choices nominated besides Transformers?
 
I prefer names that define the generations based on when they spent their high school years.

The Woodstock Generation
The MTV Generation
The Nintendo Generation
The Ipod Generation
The Holodeck Generation
 
It was a peer based popularity contest. It lost all creditable when there was no nomination for films like - No Country For Old Men and There Will be Blood.

Unicron said:
I hear that. :lol: What were the other choices nominated besides Transformers?
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I am Legend
Juno
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Superbad
 
SeamusShameless said:
Juno was way better.
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I'm sorry, but the use of the word "homeskillet" in any movie automatically disqualifies it from any descriptor more positive than "barely mediocre."

That entire movie is nothing more than Diablo Cody writing a Mary Sue character with dialogue that she wishes she had been clever enough to say when she was in high school fifteen years ago. (Coincidentally, we attended the same high school.)
 
JKTim said:
I'm sorry, but the use of the word "homeskillet" in any movie automatically disqualifies it from any descriptor more positive than "barely mediocre."

That entire movie is nothing more than Diablo Cody writing a Mary Sue character with dialogue that she wishes she had been clever enough to say when she was in high school fifteen years ago. (Coincidentally, we attended the same high school.)
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Agreed. Juno was fucking retarded and so are the people that like it.
 
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