The Gen Z Movie Focus Group

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Amanda is joined by The Ringer’s very own Jomi Adeniran, Jade Whaley, and Jack Sanders to convey the first (and possibly last) Gen Z Movie Focus Group! They discuss how they watched movies growing up versus today, debate what is the most important movie to Gen Z, and assess whether movies are “so back” or “so over.”Host: Amanda Dobbins Guests: Jomi Adeniran, Jade Whaley, and Jack Sanders Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producers: Jack Sanders and Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang. In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some advice.
0:10.6	Just be yourself and the guests will come. Don't be the celebrity that this is their like sixth thing they're doing.
0:16.0	I love true crime and cooking podcast. Is there any way you could combine the two?
0:21.6	Well, everyone has an opinion and a podcast.
0:24.5	So, join me for good hang.
0:26.6	It's rough out there.
0:27.8	We're just trying to lighten it up a little.
0:47.1	I'm a bandbins, and this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about the children and the future.
0:54.9	Sean is somehow still out. So, we are going full no parents mode on this special episode of The Big Picture.
1:00.6	I've convened a panel of the ringer's finest young minds to answer every question that I have about how Gen Z does or does not watch movies.
1:04.3	Welcome to the first and possibly the last edition of the Gen Z movie focus group.
1:09.9	Woo!
1:09.9	Let's get it. All right. So before we begin, I'm going to introduce our panel. edition of the Gentie movie focus group. Woo! That's kidding.
1:11.7	All right. So before we begin, I'm going to introduce our panel and we're, you know, it's going to be
1:16.1	like a mingle, like speed dating type thing.
1:18.5	Do they still speed date?
1:20.0	Yes.
1:20.5	They do.
1:21.0	Okay, good.
1:21.6	See, we're learning so much here already.
1:22.9	So first, we have Jade Whaley, a producer here at The Ringer, my producer on Jam Session, and an AMC
1:29.7	Stubbs member, or I actually forgot to fact check that. Are you still an AMC Stubbs member?
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