1. The argument your making was also said about Gen x and the gen before it. It’s a wash rise repeat cycle as soon as your generation isn’t the newest you start blaming the last generation. It’s nothing new it’s a cycle that’s gone on for decades. People did it to your generation and gen y will do it to the next. People always want to act like the new generation is the problem so they don’t have to take responsibility.

2. Movies are not any worse now than they were in the 80s or 70s but it’s nice to hang on to your fond memories of the past. Let’s please not act like they never made a bad movie before 99 it’s insulting.

3. Movie length on average not any shorter than they were before. Check the lengths most movies are at least 2hours. Not all but most. In fact there are times in history that films were on average a lil shorter than they on now.

4. Despite there so called in ability to pay attention Gen Y seems to flock to long films. TDK was 2 1/2 hours and Lotr was 3 hours each. All were hugly successful. In fact take the highest grossing films from the last 9 years and see how many of them are short you may be surprised.

Honestly from the younger gen I’ve found a majority of people who are movie nuts and very smart. Remember Gen Y goes all the way back to 83 and I best most of those 25 and 26 year olds have better attention spans than you. I can promise you most of them prefer smart films. Maybe the 13 year olds don’t but I know if we went in to your past we could find you watching crap movies that were short. At 12 most people don’t know much about what makes a film good or bad and we just watch anything. They havnt even developed their taste yet. Much like you though when they grow up they will claim their movies were better than the current ones.

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“Yes because kids not paying attention to teachers at a very young age is such a crazy new concept. Gen Y was the first time that ever happened.” ~ Daniel f

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When it comes to all generations, what they do at a young age does reflect the future. If we push forward the clock, you will notice psychologists, employers, and many-many other professionals have also noticed the short attention span of Generation Y. Technology starts to affect everyone at a young age, and then it transcends throughout a person’s lifetime.

What does this have to do with movies, and them being dumbed down for consumption? Everything. Who do you think is the demographic of movies such as “Star Trek”, “Stargate”, “X-Men”, and “Star Wars” is trying to capture?

Second, I am a psychologist who studies, researches, and tests adolescence for different behavioral anomalies. It is my job to notice certain behavior patterns, and how they manifest themselves over a period of time.

Generation Y is suffering greatly from being exposed to a higher than usual set of advancing technologies. As a result of being too consumed with new ways to stay connected, this new generation has formed a short attention span for offline reality. It is the first of many generations that will lack an understanding of normal face to face communication, and how human body language can give insight into a person’s attitude.

As a result of being too consumed with being consumed with staying connected, they are losing the ability to pay attention in boardrooms, movie theaters, and school for long hours. It has been documented.

I don’t envy this next generation. Even though I do participate in the new technological world, I do not envy what this next generation will be sacrificing.

I came to love Blade Runner with several replays, but it’s definitely not a crowd pleaser that it needed to be for success.

I guess we could debate if each generation is “less intelligent” than the one before it, but Im not sure any result would correlate well to the “hollywood machine’s” latest batch of movies.

Good food for thought, I’d like to see some studies on it.

One crappy little article is meaningless considering every few years there is a new editorial or study out saying kids these days sheesh. Even better this article blames television and film the very thing we support on this site. When things are not perfect older adults love to blame one of three things technology, kids, or of course good ol TV. You managed to blame all three. I’m guess you missed the geration Y cut off by a year or two so you decided to blame Gen Y. I make this assumption because you grew up in the 80 s and 90s so your either gen Y or just barely gen X which gives you the ability to blame another generation other than yours.

I notice you of coursed ignored the fact that the average movie length is not actually shorter than the 80s and the fact that there of been bad films since decades before Gen Y was even thought of. Of course it’s much easier to blame the genetics than actually think about things critically and come up with a real conclusion. Try looking up articles from the 80s they did articles and studies back then where they said kids were out of control and had a much lower attention span they also did it in the 70s and the 60s. Every one acts like their generation was the good ol days just like it’s easy to say that the 50s were perfect and we lived the good ol American way .

Every one always wants to blame the newest youth just like they did with my generation and the gen before that.

As we fast-forward to the new millennium, the average length of a movie is 1 1/2 hours long. Substance and originality have been substituted for a cheap CGI backdrop, which prevents the actors from digging deep into the psyche. Instead of getting genuine emotional responses, we now have artificial reactions when something happens in the environment.

Millennials (Generation Y: 1985 – Now) have short attention spans, which is the result of futzing around with iPods, cellphones, and other internet (information) technologies. As a result of a generation of people who need to be connected, movies have become shorter and dumber.

Yes, the studios are correct. When it comes to this new generation of movie goers, they would not be able to sit though a 2 1/2 (to 3) hour movie with substance. So, we are left with expensive CGI movies about nothing.

If I had to make a wager, only one handful of movies, between 2000 and 2010, actually had something rational. Everything else is junk.