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As an aside, this whole 80s/90s idea of a “midlife crisis” is so strange. Like I’m 41, my friends are all around that age. Not a single one of us is experiencing what was called a “midlife crisis”. We’re all just basically doing our normal thing that we’ve always done. I’m mean, I’m kinda doomer because of climate change and all but that’s just a rational response to an existential crisis for humanity. Neither I nor my friends are unreasonably stressed about getting older so we’re buying sports cars (not that we could afford them ofc) or cheating on spouses or whatever. I watch a movie like “City Slickers” and it seems like such a social relic.
(And an aside from my aside… what is so bizarre about being my precise age is you watch a movie like “City Slickers” and it’s about these old dudes coming to grips with the fact that they’re now old as shit, then you look up the actors and see that they were younger than you are now when the movie was filmed. What really blew my mind is when I got older than Robin Williams was when he was in “Hook”, since when I was a kid that was my quintessential “dad” movie).
I think boomers as a demographic really oversold the idea of "midlife crisis" when their sense of horny invincibility got dented in the 80s and 90s. It was all over media at the time and left me expecting some weird bullshit when I hit the same age.
I'm in my 40s. I feel fine. Some old people problems, but I'm not doing weird shit like boomer media said I would.
My dad, a boomer, told me that 25 was a lot rougher on him than "midlife". I had a rough time with 25 too, so so far that tracks. But I'm getting closer to 40 and I'm not liking it lol.
The only movie of its time that I can think of that aged more poorly was Ace Ventura. Severe CW for transphobia for those that look.