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Originally Posted by neverending
Have the classics lost their effectiveness? I'd have to qualify it by saying it depends on who's watching them.
I think for a certain segment of the "younger" crowd, they perceive the world in a different way than generations past. They have been raised with such sensory overload that the sustained attention neccessary to watch a film with a slower pace is just a capability they don't have. I'm not saying it's true for everyone- just a lot of people. Half the people I know under the age of 30 are on some kind of theraputic drugs.
When you expect media to come at you in five second bursts, then a slow paced film just can't hold your attention. Character development? What the hell is that? We just want to see "kills."
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Yep, some of those older flicks would be terrifying if the audience would actually be actively thinking about the characters and the situations instead of analyzing how "realistic" everything looks. That's why some younger people still "get it" while many don't.