There's all sorts of anti-intellectual art that goes back at least a couple of generations before then. Heck, Stan Lee has said more than once stuff to the effect of, "I don't know anything about science, I just wrote down words that sounded good."
Even the "trust your feelings" stuff from Star Wars is fake Buddism/Hindu-ism that hipster westerners dabbled with a generation before.
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I was a full grown adult when STAR WARS came out in 1977. And I fell asleep the first time I saw it in the theatre. I did see it again and I bought the comics from Marvel. I even went to see CORVETTE SUMMER on the strength of liking Mark Hamill in STAR WARS. But I always felt it was a juvenile franchise and it had certain features that bugged me and continue to bug me. One of these is the joke that aliens and robots speak in gibberish and people understand them as if what they're saying is perfectly coherent (yet you don't see Han speaking in roars back to Chewie, or Luke speaking in whistles and clicks to R2-D2). I'm sure there are people who find this hilarious, but to me it's a joke that might work once in a movie but can't be sustained over an entire franchise. And other overly cute stuff in the movies that clashes with the supposedly serious messaging and the creation of an immersive fantasy world. I can never totally fall into the Star Wars world, because these goofy bits keep pulling me out of the fictive dream.
Speaking of Star Wars and controversial opinions, i like Revenge of the Sith better than Empire Strikes Back.
In the movie theme I think Ted 2 was way better the Ted and may have been some of Seth's best wirk.
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Whenever the question comes up about who some mysterious person is or who is behind something the answer will always be Frank Stallone.
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Liking escapist work doesn't make you any more moral than those that don't.