Sweetie, grab your reading glasses and your anti-aging serum because we’re about to make you feel a century old. Is it just us, or did the 1986 action blockbuster that used to make us feel cool now make us feel like we need to schedule a colonoscopy?
Listen, darling, Netflix just dropped their list of “classic movies” and honey, we are NOT okay. Watch With Us is out here casually categorizing films from our actual childhood as “classics,” and frankly, we need a moment. Apparently, millennials are now old enough that anything from the 80s and 90s gets filed under “vintage” faster than our favorite jeans end up in the donation pile. The audacity!
Picture this: you’re scrolling Netflix, expecting the usual suspects, and BAM — there it is. A movie you definitely remember watching with your older siblings while wearing scrunchies and watching MTV actually counts as a “classic” now. We’re not crying, we’re just experiencing sudden-onset senior citizenship. Make it make sense!
The comment section is absolutely unhinged, and we are HERE for it. One millennial wrote, and we quote: “I came here to find a movie to watch, not to have an existential crisis about my own mortality.” Another one simply posted “I’m 35 and my back hurts,” which honestly feels like the most accurate review possible. Several readers admitted they genuinely had to check the release date because they were CONVINCED these films came out “like, five years ago.” Oh sweetie, sit down. They did not.
The trauma is real, people. We didn’t ask to be reminded that the movies from our youth are now being curated for nostalgic viewing by Gen Z kids who weren’t even BORN when these films hit theaters. One X user posted, “Netflix really said ‘here’s a classic’ and showed me a movie I watched in theaters.” BRUTAL. Another wrote, “Me telling my kids this is a classic movie and them looking at me like I’m a history professor.” The generational gap is showing, and it ain’t pretty.
So here’s the real tea: between the action blockbusters, the rom-coms we quoted at sleepovers, and the dramas that made us sob into our pillows, our entire childhood is now museum material. What’s next, are they going to start charging us senior discounts at the movie theater? Don’t even joke.
What do you think? A) I’m officially ancient and need to lie down B) These movies are absolutely classics and I feel zero shame about my age