Subj : Re: Old Vs New Movies
To   : hyjinx
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Mar 20 2022 10:00:34

  Re: Re: Old Vs New Movies
  By: hyjinx to seeLive on Sat Mar 19 2022 10:55 pm

 > I seem to feel that with the exception of a couple of handfuls of movies, th
 > last decent movies were released around the turn of the millenium. Don't get
 > me wrong, some of them are perfectly palatable, in the same way that going
 > for a McDonalds after a night out on the turps is not unpleasant at the time
 > But it's all very over-produced, for the money.
 > 
 > For me, the movies of the 80s and 90s were often cheesy yes, but boy, did
 > they have some great stories and genuinely heart warming moments too. I have
 > a hard time thinking of better movies than Back to the Future, Indiana Jones
 > Star Wars IV-V, basically most of the Spielberg stuff and that sorta era. Th
 > Matrix part 1 was kinda like a final curtain call on truly original epics.
 > 
 > Change my mind!

I think it was streaming and online distribution which crashed movie quality,
because it changed the return of investment expectation for any movie that was
not a total blockbuster and had a whole lot of megabucks thrown into its
marketing only.

THe summary of my opinion, which I have expressed everywhere in many Othernets,
is that distributors incentivize producing lots of cheap movies instead of a
few high quality movie in order to build catalogues to offer their customers.

The year I consider the inflection point past which the movie engine started
producing trash consistently is 2016. I can't pinpoint the reason but I have
observed that movies I picked up from streaming services which were released
after 2016 had astronomically low chances of being any good, with few honorable
exceptions. Also, some old actors which use to pick great movies started to get
desperate for some reason and started signing up for trash productions around
that date (I am looking at you, Cage and Willis).

The last film I would actively recommend as an awesome piece is Upgrade from
2018.


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