Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Free]

Context should have told you that it was just a summary of the video.

Do you agree with the video your summary?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Do you agree with the video your summary?

Do I agree that it's an accurate summary of the video, you mean?

 

[Free]

Do I agree that it's an accurate summary of the video, you mean?

If that's what I wanted to know, I would have asked it.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

If that's what I wanted to know, I would have asked it.

I can't tell what you're trying to ask; the crossed-out words obscure your meaning.

I agree with the video. The summary is just a description of the video's messaging. I agree with the summary insofar as I think it's an accurate summary.

 

[Free]

I can't tell what you're trying to ask; the crossed-out words obscure your meaning.

Let's make it plain: Do you believe having a fondness of (or "fixation on") the film A Christmas Story is bizarre, and is tied to a fake nostalgia simply for the sake of playing nostalgia in their minds? It may (or may not) be an accurate summary of the video, but it's also a viewpoint. One that apparently indicts me, as I am among the group of people who "became adults in the late 90's."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Then yes. As the video points out, as a kid there was little or nothing you could have actually related to in the movie in its own context; the movie when it came out (in the 80's) was intended for adults who were kids in the 40's, not for 80's kids. Now hey maybe now as an adult you like the movie for abnormal* reasons that have nothing to do with your childhood; but for the most part the kind of widely promoted, manufactured childhood-memory-popularity that is used to justify a 24-hour repeat marathon of the movie IS just that - manufactured.

And the guy making the video has no way of knowing it, but the phony hype was even worse in my own experience as a kid because the movie was filmed in Cleveland where I lived, and for that reason once people suddenly started caring about it in the late 90's, many people in my city developed an even more insufferably fanatical obsession with it than the rest of the country.

* I sense you about to seize on this word, so by "abnormal" what I mean is "different from the reasons most people seem to claim they like it".

 

[Free]

Then yes. As the video points out, as a kid there was little or nothing you could have actually related to in the movie in its own context

Well, there's also almost nothing I can personally relate to in Bridge Over the River Kwai, or Slumdog Millionaire, or Star Wars...

So what you're - sorry - So what the video is saying is the "false" nostalgia manufactured by something something and its constant overplay for a single day on a single network make ones enjoyment of A Christmas Story pure delusion, and it's not possible for someone to like the film because, among some of the abnormal reasons I might argue (and in spite of Leonard Maltin's love of it): *I* find the writing funny, the characters recognizable even if 2-dimensional, and the simple, "prelapsarian" plot a nice diversion from busier, stupider films like, oh I don't know, maybe A Christmas Story 2.

Thanks for helping explain why I've never liked Folding Idea's youtube channel all that much (even when our opinions align).

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So what you're - sorry - So what the video is saying is the "false" nostalgia manufactured by something something and its constant overplay for a single day on a single network make ones enjoyment of A Christmas Story pure delusion

Nooooo. It makes the inflated nostalgic value and popularity of the movie phony. Like Trump calling himself everybody's favorite president, TBS insists A Christmas Story is everyone's favorite beloved childhood Christmas movie and that's just a lie that was told often enough that a lot of people just started buying it. Think about "Elf on the Shelf" appearing suddenly in like 2007 calling itself "a holiday tradition" and people five years later acting like it's something that's just literally always been around.

Every movie has at least a few people who simply like it because they like it. A Christmas Story didn't exactly smash the box office but it didn't bomb either, so it's not as if nobody liked it until Turner's big marketing push in the late 90's.

 

[Ava Glasgow]

As someone who hit adulthood in the late 80s, I can assure you that we thought the movie was awesome back then. By 1990, the leg lamp, "fra-gee-lay", and "you'll shoot your eye out" were references instantly recognized and enjoyed by most people I knew. The idea that it wasn't popular or considered a classic until the late 90s is simply false.

 

[Ann Launay]

Jordan Peele's follow up to Get Out:

 

[Ann Launay]

I hate

As someone who hit adulthood in the late 80s, I can assure you that we thought the movie was awesome back then. By 1990, the leg lamp, "fra-gee-lay", and "you'll shoot your eye out" were references instantly recognized and enjoyed by most people I knew. The idea that it wasn't popular or considered a classic until the late 90s is simply false.

I hated A Christmas Story when it came out...I remember sitting in the theater thinking it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen and boring af. I think I was 12? My feelings have mellowed a bit as I got older - I don't want to jump out a window if it happens to be playing - but I don't watch it voluntarily.

I do still maintain my hatred of It's a Wonderful Life though. How anything so depressing can be considered a Christmas movie is beyond me.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

When TBS uses hyperbole about a movie that they are broadcasting that may be more of a marketing tool than a representation of actual popularity. Stations seldom come out and say "This movie is kinda OK but it is also cheap and we need to fill some time."

 

[Essence Lumin]

When TBS uses hyperbole about a movie that they are broadcasting that may be more of a marketing tool than a representation of actual popularity. Stations seldom come out and say "This movie is kinda OK but it is also cheap and we need to fill some time."

I can imagine Elvira saying that back in the day.

 

[Ann Launay]

 

[Cristiano]

Angie Tribeca Season 4 to Premiere This Weekend With Full-Season Marathon

 

[Cristiano]

2018's Biggest TV Controversies, From Roseanne's 'Ambien-Fueled' Racism to Eliza Dushku's Take-No-Bull Attitude

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Barney The Dinosaur actor now runs a tantric sex business - NME

The actor who previously portrayed popular kids character Barney The Dinosaur now runs a business specialising in tantric sex and massages, a new interview has revealed.

David Joyner, who is described as a “tantra massage specialist and spiritual healer”, was responsible for the physical portrayal of the purple dinosaur from 1991 to 2001 (the character was voiced by a separate actor).

 

[Caete]

 

[Cristiano]

For reasons I can't explain, I'm now 10 episodes into rewatching Gossip Girl. I've not seen it since it originally aired, so it feels new again and I'm enjoying it. Watching A Simple Favor made me nostalgic for more Blake Lively.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

(Hayao Miyazaki, if you don't recognise the face)