Why are kids/teens in movies/tv SO TERRIBLE?

These writers are doing a disservice to the kids of the world. I mean terrible ones do exist (I blame the parents for not establishing rules and teaching manners early on), but a lot of kids are just normal kids. Not rude, selfish little angst pigs the way they're portrayed in movies. 🙄

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easterniowegin · 51-55, M

Writers have done a disservice to the entire family unit for decades.
- dads portrayed as old children who must be mothered by wives
- kids must be catered to in the household, not taught/raised
- talking and logic should be used on kids of all ages
- lower expectations for everyone to be responsible

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@easterniowegin Men in commercials are portrayed as man- childs or adolescents who need a wife to take car of them because the woman is the only adult in the house. Very tiring. Men are also either portrayed as hyper macho, or total pussies.

Colonelmustardseed · 41-45

I suppose the movie industry needs to make things exaggerated and overly dramatic in order to make it entertaining. Otherwise, it’d just be bickering over silly things, or moments of hanging out with one another without saying anything, or staring at their screens. 😅

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DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@Colonelmustardseed teens don't need to be angsty and rude and spoiled to be entertaining in a movie. Look at any John Hughes movie- the kids are all pretty cool unless they're the "bully" character. These days, ALL the kids are the "bully" character.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@DearAmbellina2113 Lol, my high school just had normal kids, there were no characters like that.

Colonelmustardseed · 41-45

@DearAmbellina2113 Then I suppose writers have decided that kids and teens make convenient “bad guys.”

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

Movies recycle the same boring stereotypes; zero imagination.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@JimboSaturn it's miserable

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

Long ago, I was watching a movie with my dad(I forget which one) and he said, "The parents! They're always made out to be the bad guys!" He had a point, I thought.

Seriously, though--how interested would you be in a movie featuring normal, well-behaved, mostly well-adjusted kids? You wouldn't be--there would be no tension.

A good example of kids being somewhat decent is Mrs. Doubtfire, mainly because they're not carrying the film--Robin Williams and the adults are.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@uncalled4 no no no. Tension should come from good plot lines, not angsty kids.

And I didn't like the kids from Mrs. Doubtfie either, although they're better than any modern equivalent.

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

@DearAmbellina2113 Tough crowd! lol

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

Angst pigs...

SW-User

Yes, I agree with you, my teens aren't like that, I don't know any that are, it's weird really

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

Did you ever watch Reality Bites or Molly Ringwold in any of her movies, or listen to 70's and 80's hardcore punk, or 90's grunge? Our parents said the same about our entetainment when we were young.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@NativePortlander1970 of course I have. But 1. Reality Bites was about adults. 2. Molly Ringwald played *a* snobby princess character in The Breakfast Club, and that character ended up being better when she got to know her not-snobby classmates. In Pretty In Pink Molly played a pretty normal teen who had friends of all ages, from all sides of the tracks 3. I'm not talking about music here.

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