Time-Honored Cliques

I can't name the number of times I've seen someone wearing a Jack Skellington sweatshirt, or singing along to The Nightmare Before Christmas. For its time, the movie had good graphics and an interesting storyline. The children watching were entertained by the silliness of a skeleton wanting to make Christmas. When you compare it to today's films, the figures seem stiff, completely different from the smooth, easy transitions we see now.
However, Jack Skellington, Sally, and Oogie-Boogie products have been mass-produced in order to fulfill the desires of teenagers and not-quite-adults. What started as a children's film became one of the biggest fads in today's society.
Since the media has produced movies that have sparked our curiosity and made us think about the ideas behind the films, there have been cult classics. Films or shows that are so weird that you can't help but watch it again, hoping to catch something you didn't before. The thoughts behind the madness, so to speak, have brought forward fascination and intrigue towards films that were made in the early 1900s. Take A Clockwork Orange and Pulp Fiction: the movies are fairly old, by most standards, but people are 200 still quoting and talking about how brilliant the two were.
Could these movies have the power to relive ideas that were made a good ten to thirty years ago? Of course they can.
The power of ideas has changed the world countless times. As long as there are people with quirky imaginations, there will always be cult classics, and there will always be those who change their lifestyles in order to fulfill some need that demands for life to be different, more interesting than their current ones.
The media still has the power to intrigue us, to draw us into strange worlds. All I can say is, I hope those who are so infatuated with animated characters learn that there's a life outside the bright square box in their living rooms.