I prefer to rewatch older movies like the Indiana Jones Trilogy (if it was made now Indy would be a cuck no doubt), Star Wars OT, The Godfather, Heat etc. not to mention watch shows like The Sopranos and Stargate SG-1 or play games like GTA IV, The Witcher 2 Mass Effect 2 etc.
All the shit from the past 6+ years or so has been far left propaganda and anti white men. I'm sick of smug bitchy "strong" female characters, lgbt+ degeneracy everywhere and way too many black characters.
They have butchered so many iconic franchises its just depressing
Heat is such an oddly specific movie to append to your list, and yet I couldn't agree more with its inclusion. What a masterpiece.
Good movies still get made. Survivorship bias leaves us the impression that old movies were inherently better. They weren't. There's a lot of crap that's long forgotten, and what we're left remembering is what's worth remembering.
However, filmmakers could accomplish things in the 60s and 70s that just can't be done today. Things like psychologically abuse actresses so they give more traumatic performances, fire live pistols during filming, unannounced, to get better shock reactions, film live car chases in Chicago that are real and endanger real people, or my favorite, hire thousands of Russian extras to film the battle of Waterloo at 1:1 scale.
But still, TV has hit a quality revolution, starting with the Shield, continuing with the Wire, Sopranos, Xfiles, Breaking Bad, etc.
Christopher Nolan gets a lot of shit, but he's pushing boundaries and exploring concepts that would've been technically impossible decades ago.
Horror movies are hitting a resurgence, and we've seen better horror movies in the last decade than in the preceding 20 years.
It's not all bad.
Disagree. There's still good stuff being made, but there's a lot more trash than there used to be. Here's a basic point of comparison: prior to ~1999, Teal and Orange colour grading didn't exist. Now, the majority of movies and shows use it.
It’s a fad, like the two decades of cheap horror movies with jump scares. That genre is now wading into artsy, sometimes pretentious territory, which is the new fad.
I hope you're right but I'm not so sure, I mean it's been going for 15 years now.
Another reason why I think movies are actually worse now is that I inadvertently did an experiment where I tried and was unable to watch Donnie Darko back when it was released in 2001. I ended up watching it 3 years ago. The experience was shocking. It was exactly as good as movies I remember watching back when movies were good, to the point where I almost felt like I had gone back in time. After that, I started to just watch random movies from the 60s-90s without even checking ratings, and I find they were better on average and much better at their best.