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<blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 215730" data-attributes="member: 446"><p>I think Kubrick is beloved now as much as ever, maybe more so, since The Shining got its big upgrade in critical opinion a few years ago, and now Barry Lyndon is... and I think there has been a big load of expensive Kubrick books, box sets, and other toys produced recently.</p><p></p><p>I don't know why I chose 1971... the early 1970's are by far my favorite period of US/UK film, so maybe that's why. I suppose the point I was trying to make - the juvenilization of the US* box office - probably would've been served without going back too many years (but I'm too depressed from seeing that 2014 top ten to check).</p><p></p><p>Top 40 has always been for the kids, although I would bet it used to be more for teens than that US box office list. I think the Top 40 has been driven by pre-teens more since 2000, or maybe it's gone from being driven 60% by females to 95% by females. I'm just guessing... the facts are what counts and I'm too lazy/depressed to look for them, too. I loved the Top 40 when I was a teen in the 1980's, for about five years from 1983 to 1988, it was probably my #2 interest then, after baseball... I'm serious about movies but about 100x more serious about (popular) music...</p><p></p><p>I don't mean to say my teenage viewpoint on The Abyss was at all correct, I think I thought it was more anti-scientist than anti-science, but I really don't remember why I thought that. I had some hang-ups then, and do now, too.</p><p></p><p>I also don't mean to say that enjoying children's or teen entertainment is wrong or bad in general... I have on occasion watched some teen TV programs, though I think it's more for education than entertainment...</p><p></p><p>* I wonder how much other countries' top 10 box office lists look like the US's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="invitro, post: 215730, member: 446"] I think Kubrick is beloved now as much as ever, maybe more so, since The Shining got its big upgrade in critical opinion a few years ago, and now Barry Lyndon is... and I think there has been a big load of expensive Kubrick books, box sets, and other toys produced recently. I don't know why I chose 1971... the early 1970's are by far my favorite period of US/UK film, so maybe that's why. I suppose the point I was trying to make - the juvenilization of the US* box office - probably would've been served without going back too many years (but I'm too depressed from seeing that 2014 top ten to check). Top 40 has always been for the kids, although I would bet it used to be more for teens than that US box office list. I think the Top 40 has been driven by pre-teens more since 2000, or maybe it's gone from being driven 60% by females to 95% by females. I'm just guessing... the facts are what counts and I'm too lazy/depressed to look for them, too. I loved the Top 40 when I was a teen in the 1980's, for about five years from 1983 to 1988, it was probably my #2 interest then, after baseball... I'm serious about movies but about 100x more serious about (popular) music... I don't mean to say my teenage viewpoint on The Abyss was at all correct, I think I thought it was more anti-scientist than anti-science, but I really don't remember why I thought that. I had some hang-ups then, and do now, too. I also don't mean to say that enjoying children's or teen entertainment is wrong or bad in general... I have on occasion watched some teen TV programs, though I think it's more for education than entertainment... * I wonder how much other countries' top 10 box office lists look like the US's. [/QUOTE]
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