Making money != being cool.
If your sense of style is dictated by what is profitable, your style is consumerism.
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Highest grossing films of 2000 tend to disagree:
- MI:2
- Gladiator
- Castaway
- What Women Want
- Dinosaur
- Jim Carey Grinch
- Meet the Parents
- The Perfect Storm
- X-Men
- What lies beneath
Given this, I would say the coolest outfits would either involve plate armor, a volleyball, or a green yak-fur suit.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“Cool” is subjective. But if you’re looking at a population, you need to look at what is most popular to determine what people think is “cool”.
Mass approval means mass acceptance. Mass acceptance means mass cool.
I can’t think of a better measure for what the majority of people like and think is cool, than cinema gross revenue. Because most walks of life enjoy the movies. Hollywood knows movie-goers vote with their wallets, or at least they knew that in 2000.
Hipsters weren’t gonna be cool for nearly a decade.
Iron Man wouldn’t come out till 2008, roughly the time the universe splintered and we got stuck in Timeline B. That was basically the beginning of the end of anything making sense. Now everything’s a reboot, a sequel, a sequel to a reboot, or a reboot of a sequel.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, this ain’t it.
“Cool” is nebulous and ephemeral, and defined by being difficult to pull off, IMO. The majority of cool things and people tend to burn bright and quick. It’s also very relative in a social sense. (What’s considered cool in rural Nebraska is definitely not cool in LA, at least not at the same time.)
Being the right person (or social group) in the right place at the right time, being of another time (including future) or just having a particularly unique sensibility can all be factors. Once something cool becomes widely popular it tends toward commodification and watering down, and that is the opposite of cool.
Wilson@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s a long read, but I think you’ve been the victim of losers in the Gervais Principle. ribbonfarm.com/…/the-gervais-principle-or-the-off… Specifically you are ruining “Gametalk” from part 4.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
How do you know those movies are highest grossing because they’re cool?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They are highest grossing because they sold the most tickets.
Uncool movies don’t sell the most seats.
It’s literally a popularity contest. And popularity contests are always given to the coolest.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Who hasn’t jorked it to Jim Carey’s portayal of that gorgeous gangrenous Grinch‽
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Forgot about Gone in 60 Seconds youtu.be/RC6_GkI3vCU
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jim Carey Grinch is my favorite movie
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and outfit lets be real
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s probably my favorite movie on that list, but only because I can enjoy it with my kids.
A few more years and then, maybe I can bring them into the JasonDJ “circle of trust”.
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Thanks for these I’ll watch them.
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
[deleted]JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Don’t underestimate the box office appeal of Tom Cruise before everyone knew he was a nutter.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If you’re trying to tell me that Meet The Parents is better than Pitch Black because more people saw it in the theater, you have no idea what makes anything good and you shouldn’t reveal that about yourself with confidence on the internet.