Boomer brainrot movies - How do you do, fellow kids?

I want to say Zardoz and Boorman's follow-up Exorcist 2: The Heretic fall into this. Since they're essentially Neil Breen movies without the literal self-inserts. Boorman's a literal boomer, too, but I think this pair is more indicative of drug-rot than brain rot. Hell, even he admits he doesn't know what the fuck Zardoz was about. Whatever it was, I'm pretty sure he missed the mark as bad as Megalopolis did. But then he seemed to recover after that. I mean he was still a fucking weirdo, but the movies turned normal again.

You've got all your old TV movies from the '80s like Mazes and Monsters (Tom Hanks before he got his lobotomy) where whatever current shit is going around is definitely dangerous to teens. Even as a pretty little kid and not a D&D player, I recognized that M&M was complete bullshit. Although, to be fair, I'm pretty sure I thought it was going to be just a kick ass sword and sorcery fantasy adventure and it turned into some preachy bullshit, so I may be mis-remembering. But there was a movie like this (or at least a CHIPs episode) about everything then, Satanism, Heavy Metal, skateboarding, drugs (of course), and they were all just dramatic re-hashes of Reefer Madness.
 
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Reinhardo-sama said:
Futility of immortality; nature doesn't like it very much to be mocked. Can be translated into the failure of troons, too, easily. There, I solved Zardoz.
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I mean that's a good interpretation, but it ignores the most important theme: How guns are awesome and solve all of life's problems.
 
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Your Starter for 10 said:
You've got all your old TV movies from the '80s like Mazes and Monsters (Tom Hanks before he got his lobotomy) where whatever current shit is going around is definitely dangerous to teens. Even as a pretty little kid and not a D&D player, I recognized that M&M was complete bullshit. Although, to be fair, I'm pretty sure I thought it was going to be just a kick ass sword and sorcery fantasy adventure and it turned into some preachy bullshit, so I may be mis-remembering. But there was a movie like this (or at least a CHIPs episode) about everything then, Satanism, Heavy Metal, skateboarding, drugs (of course), and they were all just dramatic re-hashes of Reefer Madness.
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Mazes and Monsters is actually surprisingly even-handed
it's very specifically spelled out that Tom Hanks is kinda nuts regardless of MnM, the crew he plays with actively tries to help him, it's very clear that him being nuts is why he goes nuts, not that there was some inherent evil in a dumb sewer tunnel larp
it's certainly not great cinema but it's a lot less-bad than you'd expect, and a good watch with your nerd buddies
 
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Womble of Wimbledon said:
The upcoming Bob Dylan movie with the hideous Timothy (fuck you Timothee is not a name) Chalamet is absolutely going to make the boomers cream their trousers while being a totally mediocre by-the-numbers piece of music biopic slop. By the director of other boomer brainrot biopic slop like Walk the Line.
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Music biopics in general are boomer slop. Same with WWII dramas/biopics.
 
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Uncle Lloyd (as the Troma cult calls him) is not immune to it either:


This isn't even out yet after almost 5 years but you can tell. The last two Lloyd directed films, Return to Return to Nuk'em High parts 1 and 2, show that Lloyd has simply lost the plot and has no idea how to make a good comedy anymore.

 
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John Waters after Serial Mom.

Two of his last movies can be interpreted as him reflecting on his own career while giving some mild advice to newer generations while failing to be memorable on their own. He denied they were autobiographical. Both were made because of foreign investment and both bombed, not like bombing is a new concept to Waters.

Then New Line decides to throw Waters a bone for old time's sake and he makes A Dirty Shame, which is pretty much Waters making a blackface tier impression of his own style. The name is pretty appropriate and might be the only right decision he made.

Waters now lives off his somewhat whitewashed image by doing anything but directing, Hairspray residuals and trying to get his book adapted into a movie. His quest led him to cameo in a VivziePop cartoon.

You could make the case he sold out since 1981 if you think about it.
 
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Blue Gem Muslim Queen said:
John Waters after Serial Mom.

Two of his last movies can be interpreted as him reflecting on his own career while giving some mild advice to newer generations while failing to be memorable on their own. He denied they were autobiographical. Both were made because of foreign investment and both bombed, not like bombing is a new concept to Waters.

Then New Line decides to throw Waters a bone for old time's sake and he makes A Dirty Shame, which is pretty much Waters making a blackface tier impression of his own style. The name is pretty appropriate and might be the only right decision he made.

Waters now lives off his somewhat whitewashed image by doing anything but directing, Hairspray residuals and trying to get his book adapted into a movie. His quest led him to cameo in a VivziePop cartoon.

You could make the case he sold out since 1981 if you think about it.
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@The Cunting Death Is going to rape you now.
 
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Your Starter for 10 said:
Zardoz
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Nah, I'll defend Zardoz and say that the vicious masculinity it portrays, and the underlying thread of a member of the decadent society of immortal out of touch people, inviting in the vicious but vibrant and fully self actualised savage to revitalise things, only for that same savage to destroy the entire society; was pretty interesting.

It's just, er, not a good film lol.
 
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