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Being a member of the 15-24 set (straddling the middle of it, actually), all I can do is weep for my people and threaten to kill anyone I know who watches this garbage. It may be you guys' fault for bringing it to us, but God knows we didn't have to drink the kool-aid...

And, guys, there is some hope. Not all of us are complete dumbshits...

I. Loved. This. Review.

Behold the Voice of Doom! This is the most depressing review you've ever written. It's funny for me because I don't belong in either generation and I'm at best an observer. Still it depresses the fuck out of me when I see things like The Hills and what MTV has become. I remember the days of Madonna, Michael Jackson (before he got creepy) and Milli Vanilli (girl you know it's true, ooh, ooh, ooh...). Then I got too busy with other stuff and disconnected from the world for about 8 years and when I got back, Madonna had gone from quirky rebel to...whatever the hell she is now, ditto for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston. Don't even get me started on Eddie Murphy.

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I heart you.

Just one thing, though: how many, exactly, is 1,0000? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and take it as intentional; a made-up numeral used in conjunction with Britney Spears to be as mind-fuckingly dumb and batshit crazy as she is.

I heart you that much.

It's "...others and I....".

My question is: will seeing it after the benefit of several shots make it better or worse?

As a 21-year-old, I've never felt like I belonged in my generation. I think having older siblings helped me understand there were better things out there. I grew up being told New Kids on the Block suck and hearing my brothers playing Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins on their loudly amplified electric guitars. I hated so much about the pop culture that came out in middle school and high school. But I'll tell you what, very smart, very intelligent people grew up during that time. I'm just waiting for that to show.

fuck that noise! i'm not taking responsibility for shit. a true slacker doesn't take responsibilty for anything. what's wrong with you?

but seriously, brilliant review.

wtf Stringer? you are WAY too pretty for this crap. i know you have bills to pay, but i can't pay to see this crap. i really want to see your pretty face on the big screen looking all sexy, as you will, but there is no chance that i will see this movie. ever.

There are people that exist who don't have facebook pages?? Say it ain't so. I actually remember this time long ago when my relationship status didn't have to be defined online for all to see. Ahh those were the times. But granted isn't it damn useful you can google someone now before you even meet them? No? Okay I tried.

I may fall in your age bracket...the ass end of it but I'm in there. But I wouldn't have much hope for our younger generations...check out juicy campus dot com if you want to cry (a lot). I knew I was officially old when my boss had to tell me about this new "trend". What happened to just insulting someone the good old fashion way? Lots of trash talking and the occasional black marker to a bath room stall.

I love you Dustin.

Aw, don't feel bad, kiddies...the rapture is nigh. It will all be over soon.

Do you promise? Because, for real, a girl in one of my classes yesterday tried to convince me that Obama is the Godtopus-damn antichrist. Of course, she also thinks Hannah (fucking) Montana is "cute."

I do so love my bass-ackward southern university...

Re-reading your comment, I realise that I just repeated what you said...bloody hell...the ginger ale is going straight to my head.

We ain't all bad.

Yes, there is a barftastic 15-24 demographic but c'mon, it's not like nothing we've produced/endorsed has been bad. Haven't we had a golden age of American TV drama? Some of us are smart and cute and productive! ReallY!

But, uh, sorry about that whole reality TV thing, uh, I, uh, don't know who to call to make that stop.

This is kind of a douchebag review. I'm normally a fan, but you are way of the mark here, pajiba.

You assume that your youth was cool, meaningful, and real, while today's youths lead shallow, vapid, material lives driven by want of material things driven by corporations.

This is completely ridiculous for reasons i shouldn't have to explain to an intelligent person. Suffice it to say that every hipster douchebag (or the generational equivalent) has said this for 100 years about the generation immediately after theirs. The flower children thought the disco lovers were selling out. The disco hippies thoughts the 80's rock groups sold out. The 80's rock lovers thought the 90's pop phenomenon people sold out. And now those people think the omgtxtmessage crowd is selling out for Miley Cyrus.

Every generation views the one after it as less meaningful and more disposable than their own. You're completely wrong with the premise of your review, which is "current culture sucks". Sorry, nope. Get over yourself, man.

I'm right in between. I missed the good stuff before it went to shit, but I'm too old to care about the new stuff that already is shit. Meh.

Unless I misread the review, I don't believe Dustin was blaming the 18-24 set. I believe he was blaming us 30-somethings for the current state of affairs.

To which I say: Fuck. That. This shit was broken when I got here, you understand?

Wow. I am in utter awe. This perfectly put into words a nebulous thought that's been pecking at my brain for a few months now. I guess I just needed a dose of Dustin radiation to turn that little chicken into something that would have every KFC executive shitting their pants.

Yeah, because Kurt Cobain did so much for you guys. I'll tell you what. Kurt Cobain made that shitty slacker generation. Thus, Kurt Cobain is responsible for Prom Night.

Although who birthed all of these unkempt losers whining about the plight of suburbia? Oh that would be the baby boomers. The plague that not even God could dream up. The generation that is saddling my generation with crushing debt (which is as near as i can tell will only get worse.). The generation that is really in charge of things right now. That's right. GW Bush? Hillary Clinton? Two sides of the same fucked up, smelly-ass, coin.

So we can clearly see that Baby Boomers are responsible for Prom Night and they will be the end of us all. Fuck. You. Guys.

By the way, I loved this review.

This review is totally bullshit! What happens at the prom Does Brittany totally dress like a slut or what Do u see her tits Does she get cut up n shit? What would kick ass is like a shower scene where shes runnin in some see thru shit and slips in the shower and shes wearing a skirts so u get a total beav shot
Hey is Juno in it? She rocks.
Fuck you bro. Now how am I gonna know if I should go see it. Fuckin old-ass tool Curt Cobain fuckin blows anyway Smells like teen ass Daughtry destroys that dude

Tanner, for the record, I'm 30, and I was a slacker long before Kurt Cobain came along. Mea culpa, I guess.

My bigger worry that this generation won't find their zeitgeist-boning screech amabassador to fling shit at the walls, and we'll have to suffer this cycle again in twenty years time.

Coming soon: Prom Night 2028, starring Miley Cyrus Jr, with Marlon Wayans as the old janitor. Y'know, for the gravitas. "It's good, but not nearly as edgy as the 2008 original."

Jerce said

"Did NOT. Did you read the review? Dustin completely trashed his own (our) generation before he started in on yours. Read it again."

I did read it again, and dustin said

"And all I can say is, I'm sorry. We used to be kind of cool. I swear it. We were detached and aloof; we didn't shower; we smoked pot and watched movies; we didn't hate the world because we were to goddamn disinterested in the world to work up the requisite loathing. We had shitty facial hair. We were going to grow up and be poorer than our parents! And we were OK with that. Everything we said was ironic. Our music came from BMG and Columbia House for a penny (plus $5 shipping and handling per CD). We made movies and television shows about nothing, but they were profoundly about nothing. We were awesome."

He slobbers all over his own generation in a hipster-arrogant way. Of course, he goes on about how money must have been the downfall of culture, and his generation was corrupted (any good hipster-douche thinks that anything purely good is always destroyed by money or The Man). But Dustin's basic assumption is that his generation started with meaning and purpose and relevance, and that the current generation has never had meaning or inspiration or any of that and is only a mass-media marketing scheme.

And of course, that's patently false. I'm actually getting somewhat tired of Dustin's reviews because it seems like he can't review a movie without some sort of grand societal commentary. Sometimes, just reviewing the movie is enough.

their zeitgeist-boning screech amabassador

I am stealing this phrase, and will be taking credit for it. I will be using it at every conversational opportunity. I will be creating conversational opportunities in order to use it.

I know I'm hyper-posting today, but I just had to put Zuffle on notice.

Your description of youth today was nearly dead-on. And I should know- I'm a sixteen year old girl. There are people out there just the way you described us, but you should know that for everyone one of them, there's two or three of me. And we're waiting. We have good ideas and good grammar, and we are worried about selling out.

Generation Douchebag hears you.. and don't worry. We're gonna be okay.

Jeremiah, I don't agree with the labeling of Dustin as a douchebag hipster because, social tags aside, I think he's a thoroughly decent guy (from what I can tell over the interwebz and all). However, I do agree with your indignation over Dustin's implicit assumption that our current generation has never had inspiration or meaning of its own.

However, I think that every generation looks derivitive from the vantage point of its perspective. We should all just go check out some Picasso and tilt our heads along with the picture and see if the world looks better from our crooked gaze. And if it doesn't, we should probably hit happy hour.

Woops, "vantage point of its PREDECESSORS." Man, my mind is stuck on perspective today.

Also, my happy hour invocation only applies to the legal third of the 15-24 demographic. I prefer to discourage the highly glamorized rehab stints among the under-21 set.

for the record, I'm 30, and I was a slacker long before Kurt Cobain came along. Mea culpa, I guess.

True, he may not have made the movement... but he definitely was in the color guard for it.

their zeitgeist-boning screech amabassador

May never happen. Because the anti-authority "zeitgeist-boner" image has been co-opted by MTV, Mountain Dew, and the Democratic National Committee.

I think that the best we can hope for is not one big zeitgeist-boner for everything. But many smaller zeitgeist-boners for many different things.

At fourteen, I'm probably the youngest reader of Pajiba (I don't even fall into Generation Douchebag yet! My brain hasn't even had time to atrophy!). But I see the aforementioned Hannah Montana Wannabes and braindead teenagers everyday in the halls of my high school. I have to COEXIST with these people, and even, on the unfortunate occassion, try to COMMUNICATE with them. They are every bit as awful as you could imagine. They are worse, in fact. I don't know how our generation is going to make it, but as Emily and Edie and hop3 have all said, there are some good ones left. We are not all lost causes, because we have good music and good books and good movies, and, most of all, Pajiba. So, just so you know, there is hope.

Let me say this for you babies of the nineties: You are well-represented on this website. And yes, Jeremiah, I am counting you in this. Your argument may be greatly flawed, but dude, at least you are expressing in an erudite and eloquent way.

However. First let me congratulate you on discovering the word "hipster". Lord knows I have waved that particular shitpinion about with reckless abandon. And I'm appreciating the clever way that you'll just slap it in front of your insults haphazardly, with complete disregard for how obnoxious and detrimental to your argument it is. That takes some gusto, kiddo. You should try using it like a suffix, that's my own personal favorite. Like hipsterrific. Or hipsterical. Or hispterectomy.

Second, you probably missed out on irony. It's a damn shame, I think you would really like it. Because then you would figure out that was saying about our generation is: we were just as bad as you were. It was a material world, and we were material girls. Then Cobain came along, sighing for the entire disaffectation of our generation. We suddenly awoke to the fetid scent of our own bullshit. We thought we were "awesome". Actually we thought we were "gnarly". Not to be confused with Gnarkill or Gnarls Barkley. But we weren't.

And now we've lit our collective stink on fire like a poo-filled paper bag and left it on your doorstep to stomp. Now, of course, we roll our eyes and sigh like we were taught when you kids do just what we did, only in faster, shinier, and in unusual flavors. It makes us uncomfortable, because it pulls back the curtain on how shitty we were, are, and will be, world without end.

But that's kinda the point. We know. You know. You know better, in fact. So it's up to people like you to rise up from the herd and be as awesome as you are convinced you are. Rise up in the cafeteria and shout that you're mad as hell and you aren't going to take it anymore. Write bad poetry. Make crazy videos on YouTube. Blog bitchily.

You're obviously on the right path, children. You've made it to Pajiba.

Off topic, but this is the closest time a thread has talked about a horror movie in a while (So, obviously, the thread has nothing to do with the movie at hand). Anywho; saw this trailer at like 11 at night with all the lights out and it scared the bejesus out of me; which is a weird since I hate 99% of horror movies. And Liv Tyler.

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/6921259/standardformat/

Oh, and idea for an afternoon comment diversion(if anyone's listening): Best movie trailers of all time, best movie trailers that didn't live up to expectations etc... Let the big kids decide exactly what the rules are, as I'm too stupid for that sort of thing.

Actually, insertclevername, we may have sucked even worse: Remember Slaughter and Trixter? And Great White? They sort of make Pete Wentz look like Jim fucking Morrison. -- DR

PaddyDog -- With all due respect, I too have a word to share: "Sarcasm". Here is another one: "Sarcophagus" -- which actually has nothing to do with this thread, but it was sitting right below "sarcasm" in my dictionary, and, well, damnit, I just really like that word. Fuck! Now I'm overusing punctuation. Again. See what you caused?

JP:

I'm humbled. You caught me on the sarcasm thing. I blames the jetlags! What comes after sarcophagus? The only thing that comes to my addled brain is Sarkozy. Lets blame the hooked on phonics generation for that one.

Um, get off my lawn?

You are killing me Dustin! I used to be in love with the way Trixter's bass player flipped his long, lustrous, rocker hair. Good times . . . .

"And all I can say is, I'm sorry. We used to be kind of cool. I swear it. We were detached and aloof; we didn't shower; we smoked pot and watched movies; we didn't hate the world because we were to goddamn disinterested in the world to work up the requisite loathing."

Do you mean like 10% of the youngster population? cause, to be fair, the majority of the teenage generation at any given time suck big freaking times, but then you grow up and are so freaking condecendent with the young version of yourself that you can't possibly hate yourslef more than when you were 15. We all sucked big fucking times, let's stop pretending we were any better than this assholic generation.

Uh uh...I'm staying out of this. I don't want to acknowledge any of this as being my fault...and I don't want to admit to any of you that it probably is. Movie bad...got it. Generations fucked up...got it. People on both sides of the gap getting defensive...check. K, bye.

Awe. Some.

Erm... isn't every generation "Generation Douchebag"? Just sayin'.

self.
masturbatory.

To.add.onto.that.:
Normally.i.love.your.site.and.reviews.

but.i.can.honestly.say.its.presumptuous.to.label.
the.current.15.to.24.yr.old.generation.as.
Douchebags.

What.the.hell.did.you.do.when.you.were.15?
People.dont.start.contributing.until.they.grow.up.
and.get.an.education.

I.graduated.
Im.buried.in.debt.I.make.artwork.Im.not.making.
any.money.Im.enjoying.life.
Im.also.typing.on.a.broken.keyboard,and.being.
broke.Ill.take.my.time.in.fixing.it.

Talk.to.me.or.anyother.Gen.Douche.in.a.few.years.
..Or.in.a.decade...when.Im.40.
I.am.not.defined.by.the.swill.that.surrounds.
And.that.includes.some.of.the.sanctimonious.shit.
I.hear.peddled.around.here.

Keep.calling.a.generation.worthless.or.SLACKER.
and.after.awhile,it.starts.to.fit.

Heyyyyy! You just made me feel guilty about my existence just by reviewing a movie.

Heyyyyy! You didn't even review the movie.

And I didn't even like New Kids or Saved by the Bell.

I am going to go hang my head in shame and I don't even know what the hell I did wrong.

Man, I want a better nickname for my generation (age 23), and a definitive one.

I hear Generation Y, Millennials (makes no sense) and now Generation Douchebag. And while I'll agree that people my age have perfected douchebaggery, to the point that cliches now exist in human form, I won't apologize.

I am sometimes stupid, I am sometimes lazy, I am sometimes unoriginal. My generation will continue to spawn equal parts good and bad, but we'll move forward. We'll get older, we'll find a musician to deify, and a filmmaker to glorify, and after all that, we'll lament the idiots that come after us. And life continues.

Dustin - I feel bad about the way this comment thread is turning on you, so I wrote you this poem:

You might think "Once bitten, twice shy"
(but) Here I go again, Round and round
You spin me round (like a record)
I wanna rock - Pour some sugar on me
Talk dirty to me, Kiss me deadly
Slide it in, Animal (fuck like a beast)
Give it to me good
Not a minute too soon, Honestly
Up all night, Nothin' but a good time.

For someone afraid of getting lost amongst other posts, eager readers can check the "recent posts" at the bottom of the homepage to see if there's any new action in crowded or even dormant threads. Riskier later at night though. The spambots come out and fill up the recent posts in threads all over the place and your Hudson joke post just gets buried.

Now, my love letter following Dustin's apology.
In dealing with these circumstances, I'd have to say that Ted Leo is probably the greatest person alive. The guy's 37 but receives a shit ton of angry email if he hasn't booked an all-ages venue somewhere. He always tries to, though. Even got this dive bar in East Atlanta to let him have two shows the same day so there'd be a special early all-ages no alcohol set. I had a feeling that was the one to go to and it was wonderful. Plus the stage in that place is like six inches high, no barriers. I'm always in the older, smaller part of the audience, and he doesn't try to write from a teenage point of view or "for the kids", but he still connects. I've never seen him make or acknowledge any distinctions in age, apart from said logistics of venues sometimes being unsatisfactory. I'll see teenagers at the shows and this guy 20 years older is their punk rock guy, they didn't inherit him from older siblings or parents, he's never really been famous enough for that to happen anyway. And it's not about "here's the message from your hero", he wants people listening to go make the world better themselves, even pleads with them to. Even if there's songs about fears, doubts and problems of one's 30s, it's still sorta just shit everyone's dealing with in this country at many ages in one form or another. This is about his wife...but it's also about being in a rut and looking for help to get out of it. You could flip it around and say the Harry Potter kids are relatable to me and others my age and older, partly from memory but also because I'm still dealing with some of the same shit. Naturally, "Shake The Sheets" fit right into a geeky mix I made for a friend with a loose Harry theme. Ted does well with making specifics resound universally. "I haven't been in that situation, but I know the feeling you're talking about".

Huh?

Well DAAAMN, go get your hands on "Hearts of Oak" for a start and get familiar!

Pajiba, you've got much more nobility than I do. I'm not going to apologize for my generation. I took no part in it, okay? So maybe I had a backstreet boys CD... maybe I watched the first scary movie. But I was thirteen! And I paid the price, in more ways than one. But I refuse to shoulder the collective blame for tweeny hipsters and camwhores and text speak and all of that crap.

All that you see - the moronic, giggling masses babbling on their phones and the Bratz and the Idol and everything - it's depressing. But it's not so big. It's popularized, sure: mass consumption delivered to the door, but I'm not answering. And I think a lot of people are with me, hiding behind the curtains, staring in horror at what has become of the youth we are supposed to be a part of. There are a lot of us who abhor it as much as you do, and hopefully we can be a bit of a salve for the wounds you think you've inflicted not only upon this generation but yours as well. Heavy handedness aside now and to everyone freaking out:
calm the fuck down and read a damn book or something.

and JP: OMG I LOL'D FUCK ME

...sooooooooooo....the movie was bad then?

also, i'm kind of offended by all the justin timberlake bashing.
just cause he's actually amazing.

but yeah; let's sum everything up in that every generation ever sucks in some way or another and drink a gin and tonic.
i won't say on me cause I'm in college and super poor...
...but you know. We'll just toast to mediocrity!

I actually think it's encouraging that our society is safe and affluent enough where morons haven't been been eaten by bears, or starved to death from lack of marketable skills.

Now thats what I call progress.

p.s. I'm 24, and damn proud I'm not a Gen X-er.

Maybe it was just a right time, right place sort of coincidence, because Kurt Cobain is just so horribly overrated.

gargumma- I thought it was simply understood that we were acknowledging the "Generation Douchebag" moniker as one created out of the hyper-real mess it describes. I think we all know that the Gen-Y images Dustin evoked are self-conscious ones, not necessarily borne of some organic reality within the self, but of a collective crafted reality. These kids today are meta and even they don't know what it is, they know they're it.

becca, I guess they don't know what it is and we contribute to that, not only by not educating, but also by not stopping the douche-promotion.

They think it's ok to be like that because we (the collective 30-somethings) foment it.

Maybe the moniker was actually created out of our hyper-real overloaded times, not from our generation, I don't really know. (I really doubt they would be pleased to call themselves that, even the most stupid of the fratboys, or be cynical enough to get the "walrusy joke". But, again, I don't really know).

I'm just not sure about a "collective crafted reality".

Thanks Dustin, but you don't have to apologize. Let's face; you drink a twelve pack of beer, and wake up in a pool of what you can only hope is your puke, you don't blame the beer. The beer did not tie you down bondage style, crack itself open and pour itself down your throat whilst it's booze-bretheren chant "Chug! Chug! Chug!". Consumption is the fault of the consumers, who, being unable to enjoy their own lives, must watch others in order to feel validated.

So Dustin, and to all Pajiba readers, on behalf of my generation, I sincerely aplogize. I apologize for Miley Cyrus. I apologize for every single youtube "Celebrity". I apologize for the Jonas Brothers. I apologize for Tila Tequila. I apologize for every single televised abortion MTV calls Reality TV. I apologize for Zac Efron. GOD, how I regret that one. I aplogize for High School Musical. I apologize for Soulja Boy, and every other rapper who sounds as though they have a terrible case of Tourret's Syndrome. I apologize for Napoleon Dynamite, and for the desecration of the beloved Juno. I apologize for Maroon Five, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy, and every other piece of mass produced music.

On Behalf of today's teenagers: Pajiba, I'm sorry. My bad.

Sincerely,

Everyone under the age of 18.

Do you really expect Prom Night to do well at the box office? Give me and my peers some credit!!

ATTENTION PAJIBA: Please make a note of this comment for use in next week's Box Office Roundup.

gargumma- I guess by collective crafted reality, which is kind of a douchey phrase if we're being all honest and whatnot, I was mainly getting at (poorly) was a layer of reality that these kids not only perceive but in which they also perceive their role. This certainly isn't a new idea, but when they walk down the street, through school halls, etc, they're starring in their own movie or music vehicle or any other starring vehicle at pretty much every moment. Some are more aware than others of this perpetual performance.

That said, I'm sure people have been crafting and starring in their own narratives since the beginning of time; unfortunately, thanks to the availability of media outlets, the quality of source material has just plummeted.

Also, none of what I just said was either a) particularly well thought through, thanks to the wine beside me, or b) meant to be new or exciting or more relevant than anything else. Just to cover my ass against the smarty-pajiba-pants.

Dustin, you're review only missed out on one simple fact. It isn't about the 15-24 bracket. It's about the human race as a whole. The fact is that at any given time 99% of people are animals concerned with nothing more than sex and food. In our lifetime most of us are given a few special brief moments when we are touched by something more. Than there's that 1% that push the human race forward. The truly unique, the genius, the insane. The rest of us cling to those brief memories of something more like fading dreams while desperately crying "we are more than sheep ..."

becca, be sure I can't be counted as one of those at all. When I say "I really don't know", you bet I mean it!

Also... you say wine, I say heavy meal, time zone and a hard friday. I'll be appalled in the morning that I could write in English.

Fuck you, some of those people read this site. I hate being grouped together with my generation but I didn't really have a goddamn choice now did I.
Grr

I hope the irony came through on that...

wow, quite a lot of defensiveness from our younger brethren...but of course, it may be recognizable to us of a certain age as being the exact way we felt when our unchosen connection to the masses was highlighted and lamented. My step-sister looked to barf at all my Cyndi and DuranDuran...but I thought it was fully awesome because it was MINE. And all these kids want is just stuff to call their own while being agressively, purposely, stupified by a wealth of low calorie options. It will always be the same.

You can make up for it by doing what you do here at Pajiba - make available quality recommendations and mentor the ones you can get the attention of into taking chances on the best works you know. It makes you 'old', but suck it up. There will always be a 'new voice' that will come from within the ranks and cut the crap, but they must come from within and be created by the effects of the self-same ranks. Let it be. Our time of calling the shots will end soon enough - and yet we've gone ahead with the money motive just the same, because of our limited time. The smart amongst us will figure out how to profit from decent works, and the rest ought to be called out.

So, just keep on keeping on, my friends, and trust that the young will get there. Riding Murder Tank 2.0.

Great, let's reinforce the whole victimization and "I's not my fault" mentality of the 15 to 24 year old generation. My generation forced this culture on them and they had no choice. Poor darlings. Couldn't they have said no? Couldn't they have questioned it? Couldn't they have called bullshit? It's been done before (avante garde, jazz age, rock 'n roll, hippies, punks, grunge).

Here is one hopeful sign. If this movie does $20,000,000, that means about 2.5 million kids aged 15 - 24 would have gone (assuming that only 15 to 24 year olds went). With a total population of around 42 million, that means only around 6% of this generation will have thought enough to pony up the dough to watch this cinematic defecant.

With 94% staying away, that gives me hope for the current 15 to 24 year olds...

I'm not quite sure what to add here, feeling emotional and verbose but also somewhat confused. Dustin, your review was stirring in several different ways, and the ire I felt at a perceived insult has been diffused by reading the entire comment thread (god, I never get through the whole thing). Yes, I'm 20, and I grew up without a TV, and I have to figure out how to make my own money, and have done interesting and smart things in my life, and yes, I find the sea of stupidity surrounding me and (more frighteningly) my 15 year old sister loathsome beyond measure. And I agree with numerous commentators above who say that being disgusted with both older and younger generations is a trademark of humanity. I feel that your generalizations are silly and overwrought, if powerfully eloquent.
But I do, also, think that you are correct (partially, at least) in asserting that this generation is different; that while the trend towards stupidity is mostly the fault of the human race, things are speeding up a bit. And, as I have often felt overwhelmed by this tide towards idiocracy, I've had a lot of time to think about why.
In my short life I have rallied behind spiritual, political, and artist movements of grassroots organizers and strong individuals and healthy alternatives yadda yadda yadda... but ultimately panicked at the dark, crushing cloud of impossibility that seems to loom over every attempt towards positive change. What I have eventually come to realize about myself especially (a hypothesis I tentatively extend onto more, or much more, of my age bracket) is that the will to change has not disappeared, but all viable methods have been proven largely ineffective. We know, thanks in part to pop culture history, that immersion in mind-opening drugs and commitment to Peace result mainly in spaced out, sold out middle aged democrats. Political rallies and large public marches, while entertaining, never make the news anymore and hardly change public opinion or expand public knowledge. An ear for progressive music with hope-inspring or call-to-arms lyrics? (With any lyrics that really address anything controversial?) Don't expect it to circle in mainstream eddies. What about art? Can't art change the world? The public stopped going to galleries after being utterly alienated by Minimalism (Andy Warhol was the last artist (so far) able to be recognized in a magazine ad without his name accompanying the picture).
I am generalizing, and I know that there are plenty of exceptions to my vague assertions. Grassroots internet organization has, after all, proven kind of awesome - although, again, the vast majority of internet activity does not even bump up against moveon.org or its ilk. However, I stand by the idea that change or cultural betterment now appears so out of reach that the apathy and ignorance garishly displayed in our nation's high schools is, for many, not so much a disease as a personal (if unconscious) decision. In the face of impossible odds, it is, as they say, bliss.

I am going to add a P.S. here and say: Really? You don't think we know what irony is? Bullshit - it's the only way I know how to get through the day.

Great review, Dustin.

There is little more I can add to what has already been eloquently espoused upon. I will say that JP's original comment was one of the best poorly-written entries I have seen in a while. It looked damn genuine, well done! It's not as easy as it looks.

My daughter (she turns 8 in June) was out shopping with my mother-in-law and they were in the toy aisle. They came upon some Hannah Montana merchandise and when my mother-in-law asked my daughter, "You like Hannah Montana, right?" She cooly replied, "Um, no."

I was so proud.

Y'know, I'm not sure whether I'm a little offended, agreeing that the majority of that age bracket seems to have been dropped on its (collective) head, or bored of seeing social commentary disguised as a movie review. I know, I know, this site started out as a political blog and y'all are totally pedantic and old and crotchety...

I would like to point out that I am 21 and almost completely self-sufficient; I say almost because it's my parents that won't let go, and I'm not dumb enough not to take what I can get. But I graduated high school at 16 (oh thank gods), I got a full-time job at 17, and I moved out at 19. I own a car, I own a horse and two cats, I have a great job; I do not have a Facebook or a MySpace, I use my LJ to read about stupidity, collect macros, and sometimes get some writing ideas down so I don't lose them completely, and generally the only thing I use Google for is looking up porn.

So I guess I'm one of those outliers, bitchiness and tendency to procrastinate aside.

I'm used to the superiority complex that pervades this website. Most of the time I even enjoy it, because it is nice to get a counter point to the average movie review. But regardless of who Dustin is blaming for his gripes with the younger generation, the level of disdain he expresses for the 15-24 set has become obnoxious.

A lot of teenagers aren't thinking deep thoughts or resisting conformity - they're trying to get through school and find friends and deal with their parents and figure out what they want to do with their life. And if every time they turn around there's some asshole bitching about how the music they listen to or the movies they like makes them brainless sell-outs, they're going to say fuck you and turn on someone that doesn't judge them - like Hannah Montana, or Fergie, or JT.

I'm one of the people you're ranting about. I have an ipod and I use facebook and I enjoy trashy reality tv. I have a ton of student debt, and I loved Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls.

I'm also a law student at one of the best schools in the country. I've been published in a scholarly journal, I've worked for a public defender and with refugee claimants. Instead of bitching about the kids today, I teach mock trial and debate to some of them.

I don't like all of the popular culture that's out there today, and I don't like everything the younger generation does. But I don't write them off en masse. I've seen a group of two dozen giggling, text-messaging, ipod-listening kids become absolutely rapt with attention listening to talks about Foucault. I've seen teenagers give up their swim/flirting time at summer camp because they would rather ask us to teach them about Tibet. I've seen kids who didn't know what "attorney" meant work their ass off for three weeks because they wanted to give a perfect cross-examination.

And given all that, I'd rather write off the 30-something set as self-impressed, do-nothing, non-conformist for the sake of it assholes. Then again, I wouldn't presume that everyone in a generation (or everyone except a few outliers) is the same as their pop culture representatives.

Also, I worked for Obama in Chicago, went to Iowa for two weeks to help with the caucusing, then St. Louis, South Carolina, and Ohio; as a full time student.

And I have a facebook account.

And I love Pajiba.

And pretty much every single one of Dustin's reviews.

It's Gen X's fault that Prom Night sucks? Please. I no more blame Russ Meyer for Porky's than I credit Stanley Kubrick for Star Wars or Close Encounters. Every generation produces their own geniuses, and morons, and it's up to vox populi to sort the wheat from the chaff. The 70's was a great era for films (Godfathers, Deliverance, Rocky, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now), the '80's for music (Police, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, U2) the 90's and early 21st century had some of the best television ever - Simpsons (ok, started in '89, was awesome in the '90's), Seinfeld, X Files, Sopranos, The Wire. It's up to kids today to come up with great web content. By which I don't mean Rick Rolling.

Generation Douchebag....where's the subtlety? I like everything that "iGen" entails.

I'm 17 years old and I'm a good fucking person, okay?

I can't really understand why you can't understand the popularity of films like this with my generation. We don't go to the cinema in order to have a spiritual experience, or intellectual enlightenment or even to see a good film. We go, with only a vague knowledge of what's actually on, because we want something to do with our friends. We want to get out of the damn house for a couple of hours and piss around in a movie theatre.

Some of my friends are smart, some aren't. Some like horror, some like action, some like romance. We see films like this because it's just fucking easier. The ones that aren't smart are entertained because they understand what's going on, the smart ones are entertained by making fun of how shit it is.

We are aware of the fact that it isn't art. We know it's not going to affect us in some meaningful, life-changing way. We've probably forgotten its crappy existence by the time we've finished our Pizza Hut. We won't buy it when it comes out on DVD.

Granted, I'm British so I don't know that much about the youths in America. But we give a shit the stuff that matters. We think that Paris Hilton is a useless twat who's fun to laugh at. Mostly, we feel frustrated and disillusioned that the world is a piece of shit we can't do anything about yet apart from give money to whatever charity comes into college that week. So, we watch things like High School Musical and Hannah Montana because it has nothing to do with anything, and we can laugh and singalong and dance with our friends.

It's called escapism, and and do it because we're still too young to handle a world that is so fucking bleak.

I love Pajiba, and this review was really well-written, however wrong I feel it is. But I love my generation, unconditionally, whatever our faults. I should be used to people writing us off, it happens often enough. It still makes me sad, and angry, and a little bit betrayed that no one seems to want to understand us. We are fucking human beings.

Lyra, you summed up so much of what I wanted to say, right down to the "feeling emotional and verbose but somewhat confused." After spending a good chunk of time reading the entire thread, I feel that on behalf of my generation, I should speak out. This review reminds me of a paper I wrote last year where we were asked to analyze and define our [my] generation. Truthfully, I found the task to be quite overwhelming, mostly because I feel that I, like basically every other person on the planet, am a product my upbringing as well as my generation: I was raised in a house without cable TV, a microwave, prepackaged food [minus frozen pizzas], or even an answering machine. I grew up listening to NPR, my favorite band when I was 4 was the Rolling Stones [they were pretty fun to dance to], and I was probably the only first grader whose parents encouraged her to watch the Simpsons [it was family bonding]. And yet, I still like trashy reality shows, I listen to terrible hiphop in the car [NY radio stations suck, and I'm too cheap for an ipod] and yeah, I have a facebook - for staying in touch with a lot of my high school friends, most of whom go to school near my home, whereas I live 1000 miles away.

My point is: the lines between two things that seem inherent opposites often blur. I don't think that I'm a lost cause for liking SOME things that my generation will probably be remembered for, and I believe it's possible to stay current on trends and whatnot [because that kind of information can actually be, you know, relevant, if for sociological purposes if nothing else] without selling out - even though apparently, my generation had nothing to begin with. While I think it's sad to reduce an entire generation into people who "wallow in mediocrity like dogs in fresh cow shit," I think it's important to recognize that it doesn't matter who or what is to blame for the fact the Hannah Montana is a multi-platinum selling singer. Eventually, all the 15-24 year olds will grow up [and while we're on it, can we refrain from putting Hannah Montana into Generation Dbag? She's a lot younger than a majority of us, and I feel like she's more or less the icon for whatever generation's coming after us], and while shitty tastes in music might never change, that often doesn't give a clear indication of what kind of contributions those people can give to our world. I'm pretty optimistic about the fact that more 18-24 year olds than ever are getting involved in the political process, and [well, at the school I'm at anyway] taking more proactive stances on global issues, like humanitarian rights and the climate crisis. Fear not, Gen Xers, today's youth is not entirely comprised of Douchebags. And for what it's worth, the "Now that's what I call Pajiba!" music diversion from several months ago was nearly identical to a large portion of my music library, and I can attest that a lot my peers appreciate and enjoy that kind of music as well.

I'm in the same camp as Sara, Flannery, and most of all, Jeremiah. (Well-spoken, Jeremiah!)

Next, I think 15-24 is a pretty wide demographic. I am 23, and I feel no kinship with anyone born in 1990 or later. I believe the standard age brackets used for most focus groups/ratings/etc are 13-17 and then 18-24, and there's a reason for that. 9th graders are often too busy worrying about changing in gym class and new pimples and fitting in to be concerned with the future of popular culture. And, to that end, have you ever noticed how EVERY 13-15 year-old-girl knows the words to every song on the radio? In the early teen years, fitting in is everything, and unfortunately the abysmal Miley Cyrus, Drake & Josh, and High School Musical! are a common denominator for middle-schoolers to talk about at lunch.

But even then, there are members of this demographic who break the mold, who have already discovered that film is art, and who prefer Ben-Hur to Epic Movie. That's the case in any demographic.

So please, in the future, don't group 10th graders in with college graduates!

And you know, in the grand scheme of things, as Biro said, we are all human beings. And given the amount of effort and indignation that has gone into all the comments on this post alone, it makes me wonder if it's not time to wander away from Pajiba for a while. What if the time we all spent reading comments, replying, typing and retyping our comments for maximum effect and pithy commentary-- what if we instead spent that time doing something helpful or constructive? While Dustin may be completely disenchanted with the pop culture of American youth, I am completely disenchanted by the situation in Darfur. I am upset and indignant over human rights violations in countries the world over. I am shocked that every day 35,000 children die of starvation around the world. And those children will never have the chance to grab a cellphone, log in to MySpace, make a LOLcat Bible, or even become a member of "Generation Douchebag," current or future edition.

We are all human beings. And there are many larger problems to worry about than a lame, forgettable remake of Prom Night.

*climbs off soapbox*

I just turned 27, and I don't feel like I belong to ANY generation. It saddens me greatly.

Costello, it's a delight to read a post by an articulate and thoughtful young person.

And to answer what you've been wondering about,

Your generation will make it (or not) the same way my generation and every generation before and after it did: by accident.

ScandinavianBlonde said: I'm so glad there has been intelligent output from younger Pajiba readers. As someone who doesn't live in the U.S. I hadn't actually seen any proof of your existence until now.

That's exactly my point, thanks, Blonde! Dustin and, I believe, most Pajibans live in the US. And you guys see it the way described in the review. Now, with all the media machine spreading the US image around the world, imagine what we, foreigners, see! I'm really used to people around here saying stuff like, "I would never like to go to the US, everybody seems to be so fucking stupid over there. I'd go Europe instead." I'm not judging here, this is just stuff I do hear -- but I came to understand it better, even if I do not think the same way. Pajiba's here to prove it, and "our" (if I may) younger Pajibans have very eloquently proven it even further.

But we are all under the same douchebaggery promotion all the time, so we come to think everybody in a certain age group (thanks too, Micheru, it sure is too vague) is that way. It's the same as thinking success comes in just one happily-ever-after flavor or that we depend on an iPod to go on living.

ScandinavianBlonde also said: funny, but inaccurate use of the term suffix - it's something you add to the end of a word. I guess it's not that usual in English, but in Latin for example it's the cum (with) part in mecum, tecum etc. (with me, with you).

This is a girl younger than we are that can come up with Latin. Can't we be happy now? Actually, Blonde, I guess suffixes are common in English too, meaning different stuff, like -y (Scotty, baggy, trendy), -ment (settlement, assortment, basement), -dom (fandom, kingdom, boredom), -ness or -less and others.

That "hipster-" thing would be a prefix (pre = comes before), like re- (reruns, reschedule) or fore- (forearm, foreskin, foresee).

Plase, oh, please TPTB (the Pajibans that be), I beg for forgiveness for this too-pedantic post. Licorice anyone, while I whip mee own bottom?

Excuse the slight derail, but I felt the need to address this point raised by Genny

1. As someone with insider information on the music business, I can tell you that the reason music today is not creative and all sounds the same is because the Napster incidents of the late 90's caused so much loss in the record companies (who, admittedly, need to change how they do business) that edgy interesting bands aren't getting signed. The bands that get signed are the bands that sound like everyone else, because it's not risky to think they'll sell.

Dear Music Industry:

Boo fucking hoo.

Love,
Mr. Stitches

Call me a heartless bastard, but this poor college student finds it impossible to muster much sympathy for a bunch of jackholes who went from making millions of dollars to making slightly less millions of dollars because a bunch of naughty Interwebbers decided that they didn't want to pay for their garbage anymore.

To actually contribute to the discussion at hand:

Crap craps up the lives of every generation. It just seems like there's more of it now because we're stuck in the middle of it instead of fondly looking back.

Which isn't to say that we can't bitch about it. I feel that bitching is an inalienable human right. If you tell us not to bitch, you might as well tell us not to breathe.

This reminds me of a contemporary "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" wave speech, mostly for the medetative, melancholy tone.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

I was going to wax indignant, but 23 year old and Brio covered everything I would have said in great detail.

Seriously though - I assume, since I'm at Pajiba - that most of us like our characters complex in films. Why aren't we allowing the 15-24 set the same opportunity? Why do I either have to be vapid, engrossed in facebook, texting, and watching the Hills, OR a misunderstood outlier that completely mourns the state of my generation? I'd like to think that I could be a little of both without having to worry about being written off as a human being. I have a lot to offer and listening to crap music sometimes doesn't have to negate that.

Very interesting thread. It's nice that some of the lurkers are unlurking, and that there is a group of youngins that are as fed up with the bullshit as the dusty ancients.

That being said, I love that I can come here and type fuck, shit, and douche without my parents finding out.

My name is Skittimus, and I will be eleven next month...

Thanks gargumma, I should have thought a little further. I guess I've learned English in a more organic way so the suffix existence wasn't that evident.

It's true about the reputation the U.S. has. It's a real shame that people like Miley Cyrus and Napalm Vagina are the visible ones and therefore "represent" the whole generation. These days Japanese bands are the coolest ones over here.

Sigh...

I'll give you an example of douchebaggery. My school puts on a fashion parade once a year, it's about a month before the prom, and the local shops give us some suits and dresses to model as long as we give them a plug. Basically, it's just a chance for the kids to show off and wear nice clothes.

Well, I was talking about it with one girl who said, "I'm not going to watch it, I'd rather go see something that's well made....Like Superhero Movie."

I asked her if she was being sarcastic, "No, I don't think the fashion parade will be well made."

"No...are you being sarcastic about Superhero Movie?"

"No, why would I be? All those movies are sooooooooo good!"

I died a little inside.

Where the fck do you teach, Appalachia? Perhaps I was simply coddled enough to go to a decent school.

Well, it's not a new attitude, but Edna's got the current version of it. She might not have known them in high school but they were around somewhere. Kids, like adults, have a lot more tools and techology these days to assist them in being complete shitheads. These kids' attitudes, though, sound a lot like some of the students my uncle had as a high school drama teacher close to 20 years ago. It was a bit of an uphill battle.

It's not everybody of course, but I've dealt with that mindset myself. Plus, schmuckery of that type would be at its most pronounced in high school so Edna's getting the peak of their unpleasantness. "Coddled" is a bit strong, but yeah, you may have been blissfully unaware, and if you personally were on an AP track then the aggresively underachieiving most likely weren't in your classes. One usually can't say a whole school would be unaffected though. The parents who go so far as to say their city/school/subdivision "isn't like that" or "doesn't have that kind of people" are deluded and begging to be embarrassed. I won't name any names or schools or admit to any mean-spirited chuckling of course. I'm too fair-minded for that.

It's definitely not dependent on geography.

Jesus, what a review! Not only are my "expectations" about this movie completely vindicated, but as are my views about modern society. I don't know whether to give myself a slo-mo mid-air high-five, or start stocking up on canned peas and ammo to store in my bunker until the next coming of "the Cobain". I'll be ready for the little flannel-wearin bastards...

Well played sir, well played...

Jeremiah is an A1 idiot.

Actually, I do teach in Tennessee but on the other side of the state from the mountains.

I grew taking all of the Honors/AP classes avaialable and considered myself far from a nerd. I was as wild and "angsty" as the next kid. I just gave a damn about my future (academically speaking, I suppose. The sense of mortality had not kicked in yet thus resulting in frequent drinking and driving). Being called a "nerd" to these kids is about the worst name in the book. Nerd means hopeless loser.

Now, I don't teach honors classes, just regular. But I've taught regular classes for the past 6-7 years and I've seen this attitude grow worse as the years pass. I've also taught in three different settings: a mostly black city school, a mostly white rural school and now a "50/50" semi-city school (it's not a huge city, but not a small town either). This attitude does not seem to be a socioeconomic or racial issue. Each year they ALL seem to get lazier and more... blah. That's the best way to put it. Blah.

As I said earlier, not ALL the kids suffer from the mediocrity blues. Some are very bright, very driven. But most of those struggle with the social repercussions of "standing out." Not only are they deemed nerds and losers, but they get stuck with names that make my blood boil. Girls get called "smart bitch." Boys get called "faggot" (don't even try to find the logic there.) And God forbid the student is black? He or she is "acting white." That last one is ridiculous on so many levels. They don't seem to see how they are degrading themselves by equating dumb with black.

PARENTS, please instill in your children at a young age to strive for excellence, that it's okay to be smart. Even the ones who are actually average can try their best. I'm so tired of parents applauding C's or not caring about their kids' grades as long as they aren't failing. Some of them don't even CARE if they fail. I can't count the times I've been told, "Look, when they're at school, they're YOUR problem."

I fear for my future if this is what will be running our country.

Uhhh, Kennedy, I think you want "Liek, PERKY reviews for VACUOUS people." Not Pajiba. Bye bye.

I don't see the point in ridiculing these kids for consuming. We do nothing for them. Instead of engaging with these kids with meaningful activities as a community, we make fun or point out their problems. They don't know any better. Are their parents to blame? Yes. But so are we. We should all be out there playing something together, not watching movies. Even the best movie is a piece of shit. Our cultural tastes are helping no one, except the people getting money from it. And therein lies the problem.

We are all in the tiny grasp of an unholy god and simply refuse to break free of it. We are all to blame for this madness.

This review sucked. What a great chance to have an old fashioned Pajiba bashing on an awful movie. Instead we get some weird walk down memory lane that, if you really read it, has no backing whatsoever. It was a shitty movie made by some hollywood terds to make money..... nuff said, now lets fucking tear it a new asshole. I don't care about this movies relation to the dot-com bubble (when I read the dot-com explanation my first thought was that this site has hit rock bottom). The 15-24 demographic is the same as its always been, it has just replaced terms like "far-out" for "OMG".....who cares? Actually as compared to the hippies of the 70's and the cokehead, long-haired greaseballs of the 80's I think the demographic has taken a step in the right direction. But thats beside the point, what I really want to say is this, I started reading reviews on this website because they were funny and jaded (see the review of High Tension for some old school PAJIBA), and I use to look forward to watching a bad movie and then coming to this site to commiserate with people who shared the same views on the same issues that I had with the movie. Lately however the reviews are overwrought and unfocused. Before I can even get to a rundown of the plot (and in this particular review it never came) I have to read three paragraphs that will eventually tie in to the review as a whole. It's like watching an episode of LOST, but not as much fun. Please go back to the funny reviews that so many of us frequent this site for. You promised in your slogan "Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People", well I'm still bitchy but you are no longer scathing and I hope you will return to form before long.

superEdna-
The school I attended was in an incredibly economically disadvantaged area, yet we had a wonderful creative arts program as well as a nationally recognized AP program. We also had honors and regular classes and I took several of them.
I do remember the tendency of kids to tease "nerdy" individuals, but it was much more gentle than what you have witnessed. Students who were both smart and socially comfortable experienced no such teasing.
You touched on something that has always enraged me: the tendency of high-achieving black students to be accused of "acting white."
I agree that stupidity is pandemic, but I question the validity of whether my generation is somehow worse than all the preceding generations.

I'm straddling the X-Y gap at 24 years, 361 days and counting, so I've experienced some of the trends from both of these fine generations. I was a BMG subscribing, pot smoking AP overachiever swaddled by the comforting blanket of teenage apathy. I liked Nirvana and Saved by the Bell in equal parts to N*Sync and The Real World. Does that make me responsible for both the creation and consumption of the rancid bubblegum pop culture teens are a-boppin' to today? And if so, would the simultaneous consumption and inception of such trends cause a tear in the space time continuum or open some kind of black hole to bizarro land?

I would be so down with that.

On that note I'm now taking applications for 23-26 year olds twixters to help me rocket off to another dimension, if you know what I mean.

who is producing and marketing this level of crap?

Im positive its not some 16 year old high school girl coming up with these ideas and mass marketing them to a groups of tweens across the country.

oooh thats right, its the television and music executives from the slacker generation who figured out they could get rich by peddling crap to 13 year olds across the country...

good job guys!

I'm sixteen. I read Dickens, Nietzsche, and William effin' Blake. My favorite movie director is Werner Herzog. I do NOT have a Myspace page.

BACK OFF. NOT EVERYONE ON THE GODDAMN PLANET CONFORMS TO YOUR STEREOTYPES.

"People, in the eyes of society, are worth nothing unless they dress up in opinions."---Nietzsche

Wisdom is wasted on the old.

Boo-fricking-hoo. I don't know what to say concerning this whole debacle...
Apparently, all the kids are here to find acceptance from the golden oldies, while the smug elitist 30-somethings wish they were accepted by the OMG/WTF-generation. I don't know what is more pathetic to be honest.
You know what my problem is: People. I hate them wiht a passion. I'm one all right... so there's a lot of self-hatred going on there, too. Greedy, lonely, smug, mean, jealous and just bloody seeking for a pat on the head. God I fucking hate us.
I'm going to end up living on my own some day with 40 cats. Dream come true.

Sure, there are some terrible young people allowed to wander the streets these days. But I don't think all of them are bad, or even the majority. It's just that you can't help but notice the annoying minority. At least where I am, at a (huge) state university, most people my age seem pretty genuine, they have goals for themselves and they try to meet them. Everyone makes mistakes, and good people do shitty things. That doesn't mean that all young people are brainwashed or shallow or stupid. Sometimes they have guilty pleasures, or get sucked into lame movies. But they aren't all bad.
It just so happens you pay more attention to shitty people who rarely do good things.

Loving how all teenagers are fucktards because the majority of us listen to shitty music and buy into repulsively horrible movies like Prom Night.

Next time you write something like this, remember that there are still some teenagers who aren't complete douchebags. There are, as a matter of fact, some of us who still listen to 80's music and hate our generation as much as you do.

Otherwise, nice post, I lol'd quite a few times.

Pop culture always sucks, then there are the "cool" kids into some other sucky thing. I still remember when airbags were "too dangerous" for cars, anything in a vending machine cost 25c, you couldn't show bra's on tv, douching caused yeast infections, agent orange was not toxic AT ALL, DDT was a miracle and those pesky minorities stayed in their place -on their knees kowtowing preferably etc.etc. By the way i love it when celebrities die, Sonny Bono skiing into a tree made my Christmas season, I hope to live to see [at least part of] the next big war when the "environment" gets really f-cked , billions die [will they get into heaven?] damn my internet connection isn't working? and people have to concentrate on where the next food is coming from, how to keep the children alive long enough to reproduce at least once, shelter and some type of clothing [for protection of your skin not fashion]. You know, like the good old days of Family Values.Pol Pot style "year zero" Have fun with that youngsters!By the way, i am only joking about everything but the celebs

Dustin, your review comes just after I was in a Wal-Mart (don't ask) and saw my beloved 1986 horror classic April Fool's Day on DVD. I was so excited; I hadn't seen that movie in years. I picked it up, and upon closer inspection, I realized it was a 2008 remake. I briefly wondered why it was everything that is good gets ruined. Now I know I can blame it on Kurt Cobain.

Well, ALEX the last two still apply. But am i the only one who thinks that the heads running MTV are in desperate need of unconsentual sodomy for their role in this generation's mental decline? I can't help but see shows like "My sweet 16" and "The hills" without thinking that somehow they´re behind it all‚ just stoking the flames of my own private Hell where vapid trustfund babies are hoisted up as shining rolemodels of a new generation of proud morons. Where`s that good old fashioned genocide when you need it? Christ‚ only 23 and i`m already ranting about "kids these days". If anyone needs me i`m going to the mall. I`ll be the guy perched above Hollister warding people off with a sawed-off pool cue and rabid threats of eternal damnation at the hands of Paris Hilton and Heidi Montag. Just bring me some Orange Julius and something by Hunter S. Thompson and i´ll probably let you by with a light concussion.

P.S. Biro and Lyra? Right on!

By the by, facebook really sucks, don't know why people is so hook up with that site.

There's good and bad in every generation, but lately is kinda a struggle to have a normal intelligent convesation anywhere.

What can I only say to younger generations? (I'm 30) Just live long and prosper, even they see me funny after saying that to 'em.

o____O I agree. 100%

This blew my mind. Great Peice. :3