Ironic enjoyment has been a thing for a long time, but I've seen a lot of it in Gens Z and Alpha. People going to the Despicable Me and Minions Movies all dressed the same, for example. When I first saw people having the reactions they did to this movie was the first time I asked "Has Ironic enjoyment gone too far?" to where we're endorsing movies that aren't just laughably bad, but painfully so. I haven't even seen the movie and I don't plan on doing so.
I realize I sound like an old man talking about "the utes" here but if I already have gray hair then I think that gives me a right to talk like it. Also the difference between people dressing up to go to Despicable Me and yelling "Chicken Jockey" and holding up a live chicken is that I chuckled at the one that doesn't get people kicked out of theaters.
Ironic enjoyment has been a thing for a long time, but I've seen a lot of it in Gens Z and Alpha. People going to the Despicable Me and Minions Movies all dressed the same, for example. When I first saw people having the reactions they did to this movie was the first time I asked "Has Ironic enjoyment gone too far?" to where we're endorsing movies that aren't just laughably bad, but painfully so. I haven't even seen the movie and I don't plan on doing so.
I think it has - we're sending companies the wrong idea when we're supporting bad movies.
I realize I sound like an old man talking about "the utes" here but if I already have gray hair then I think that gives me a right to talk like it. Also the difference between people dressing up to go to Despicable Me and yelling "Chicken Jockey" and holding up a live chicken is that I chuckled at the one that doesn't get people kicked out of theaters.