Why don't men have American Beauty style mid-life crises where they get fit...

Why don't men have American Beauty style mid-life crises where they get fit, buy fast cars and chase young women anymore?

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because its a movie. if you had a real life you would know to separate reality from grandiose fiction.

It rings true for me because before my parents divorced my father also started going to the gym, got fit, bought a sports car, got a tattoo and then had an affair with a younger woman.
I saw a short bald guy with a hot girl in a ferrari on the way home from work yesterday and it made me think of the notion of the mid life crisis and the fact that it no longer seems prevalent as a trope in film or a regular occurrence in reality any more.
Wondering why.

well your father did that because you have a broken family, he attempted to mend his wounded ego by doing extravagant things and fucking someone younger to make himself feel desired. in his head he basically wasted X years of his life so now he's attempting to redo things in his 40s. it is, of course, a trope, because people deal with their own demons and broken marriages differently most of the time; men try to recover from their shattered family in a healthier way rather than acting half their age. audiences just got bored of seeing the trope because it isn't appealing for anyone, other than an unhappy middle aged man who wants to repress and act like a 25 year old.

they definitely still do. every time i see a decent car on the road i look over and it's some boomer at the wheel.

a boomer is driving the car not because of a crisis but because he spent years making hundreds of thousands in disposable income you mong

Because it's pathetic and a man's last grasp at achieving his peak.

American Beauty, Fight Club, The Matrix, Falling Down etc all belong to the pre-9/11 bubble. A time where having a comfy office job was considered the worst thing imaginable. 9/11 shifted perspective on a national/generational scale.

I never really "lost touch" with myself as I got older. The only thing that's changed about me us I decided to get fit. Guy in AB was a typical suburban Boomer that sold out to a banal suburban existence, and thus lost touch with everything that made him who he was and happy. I personally don't know many in my generation that sold out as hard as Boomers did. We managed to stay true to ourselves while getting careers, families, etc.

My dad did when I told him I was bi. Bought an expensive and fast car

what'd he bi?

Christ you sound like a tool. How old are you?

E Class AMG

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Nah, man, boomers are out to get him. They're also the reason he can't get laid

Being a virgin at your peak is definitely less pathetic

I'm not the poster but I'm old and he sounds like a tool. Getting chicks to fuck you as you get older gets tougher and tougher if you don't have plenty money, i.e., a boat, bankroll, etc.

True to yourself? Never stop getting that pussy, boys.

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Why should 40 year old men not work out, but fast cars, and chase younger women (if they are single)?
Working out is something everyone of every age and gender should be doing.
If he has the money and likes the car, why not get it?
If the man is single, why would he go out with an older woman when he can score a younger one? Men's attraction to younger women doesn't seem to change as they age.

To answer OP's question, I think society started caring less about the "proper" way a 40-something guy should live. There are too many accepted alternative life styles nowadays to think a guy doing what guys like to do is strange. Also, I think today's "mid life crisis" activity would be playing video games or something like that.

My dad was an artist. He made it big in China and then integrated himself I to a expat community and started spending months and months in China. Eventually it became obvious that my 60 year Dad was ploughing Chinese 20 somethings and he tried to bring one back home to live in the house with my mum. He seemed really hurt and surprised when my mum filed for divorce, taking his house and leaving him with nothing as he had burnt all his money on cocaine and asian bitches overseas.

Then his 15 minutes of Fame in China had extinguished so he then built a tiny house out of recycled building materials and lived like a hermit on his mates blocks of land. Eventually he bought a yacht with his saved up pension money and managed to drown himself off the coast of NSW.

Looking back he had a pretty based mid life crisis. Absolute madman my dad.

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I'm sorry user

By age 40 most people will just have paid off their student loans and will not have enough money for a car, nobody over 40 gets laid on Tinder and most of us are always fit or will never be fit and lift anime.

>People warmed to the idea of office jobs after seeing thousands of office workers get blown up

pot and SSRI’s

sweet release

Based

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The American dream has died
That's what happened

>American Beauty, Fight Club, The Matrix, Falling Down,
"end of history" ennui. vanilla sky was probably the last one. if we only knew how good we had it.

Taking one last shot at the life is less pathetic than just giving up altogether.

>The American dream has died
>That's what happened

100% correct!!!FACT!!!

>he thinks films aren't a manifesto of real life
I feel sorry for you

Honestly, it's mostly women that do this shit and start acting like moronic slut teenagers again.

>Taking one last shot at the life is less pathetic than just giving up altogether.

Better to burn out than fade away. I've got my death planned. When I choose to go, I'll buy a one way ticket to Thailand. Spend a month living like a king on credit and fuck whores day and night. On my last day I'll sit on the beach and watch the sun rise while some teen cutie sucks me off. When I cum in her mouth I inject myself with heroine and overdose, leaving money in my pocket for the girl!!!FACT!!!

Plus if a married man tries shit like now he will get sued into oblivion, kicked out of his home and ignored by his family until his mid life crisis becomes trying to stave off the urge of suicide.

Could you livestream this?

Nice. I was in Thailand a few years ago. It would be a fitting place for one last bender before ending it all.

Because American Beauty is a movie by and for faggot burger boomers. Just like this fake dad

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he's canadian

That man looks pretty cool.

Canada is just just a tax dodge

>Could you livestream this?

You bet I will, with multiple cameras at various angles!!!FACT!!!

how old was he in that movie?

42 years old. He says it during the very first line of the movie.

>tfw I'm 35

I don't feel like I look remotely close to that. Holy shit

American Beauty is the best movie ever made. Fight me, faggots.

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And Homer Simpson was originally 36

>Why don't men have American Beauty style mid-life crises

My dad had an affair at 45 with god knows who, probably some dumb whore who wanted money. all i know is that i have a 2 year old half sister somewhere in the world that i'm probably never going to meet. weird feeling.

Would you even want to meet her?

Not really. even if she turns out to be a decent person later on (highly unlikely, she's being raised by a single whore mother florida project style) all I could think of when seeing her is that my dad's an asshole.

Right mindset imo

Because we have the internet which slaved everybody

Because none of those things are worth a fuck.

sounds jewish

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They do, but it never ends up well. I used to work with a lot of older men and the ones who did it ended up miserable. They never quite got into shape and realized that hot young women actually don't give a shit about them. The only time they ever got any is when they bled out money to women who made it clear they were in it only for the money.

They do
Steroid usage is surprisingly common among that demographic

American Beauty is about a guy who has everything and then he gets bored and reaches for more. Same for his daughter.

Every character is a mopey upper middle class person who's bored of having everything.

Sounds like he led a fun life.

Damn if the article I'm reading is the right guy, he was on the yacht with a 24 year old female companion at the end. What a madman.

My dad's similar. Almost 71 and still chases girls. He's slept around plenty with my mom's knowledge. They've always had an odd understanding where he provides for the family and that's all that matters. So in a way he's been having a midlife crisis my entire life.

36 year old boomer here just to clear the air- it isn't a crisis.
You see, your father slaved away at a shit job around catty, gossiping women and a boss who was a dick, and he spent every dime either gaining opportunities for you or pleasing his wife.
The thing is, we never forgot that car we wanted. I still want an FD Rx7, but I have to buy a sedan because that is what my family needs. But dammit, when I financially can afford it, I will. Usually this occurs after financial stability and the children have matured to a point, hence the later years.
It isn't a crisis. Its being able to finally do what you've wanted after all those years. Finally doing something for yourself. Now fuck off.

>Kevin Spacey plays a straight man who declines the sexual advances of the confused neighbor
>Kevin Spacey actually raped other men and boys
is this what irony is?

I am losing weight to look good in a suit.
This is life goals

I don’t think that style of midlife crisis is really accurate. It’s more about lying awake at night with an anxiety attack about how you haven’t accomplished shit and time is slowly slipping away from you day by day but you don’t know how to course correct and fear it’s too late

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I think my dad is getting there. Parents divorced a year ago and since then my dad has gotten in shape, gone sky diving, and moving to a third world country. Im sure he is fucking younger women but has the decency to keep it ro himself.

Tbh if im that late in life and marri

-ed i imagine id just want someone around who knows me rather than starting from scratch.

It depends on your circumstances. I suppose the amount of working men that are married with children and feel trapped is slowly reducing.
The millennial mid life crises will definitely be very different to the boomer mid life crises.

>get fit, buy fast cars and chase young women
nazi

Many women become absolutely sexless and totally uninterested in it past a certain age. All they're looking for is security so that set up would legitimately work well for a lot of people if there weren't stigma involved.
I think there was some French chick that got a lot of feminists butthurt because she suggested that monogamy shouldn't be for men and married women should encourage their husbands to have affairs or see prostitutes for a happier and more fulfilling marriage.

because you need to be attracted to cute cheerleader first, so your passion to life returns

most of men no longer have element like that in their lives, nothing really matters

>tfw my life is an empty husk comprised of working and trying to forget I have to go back to work soon