DISNEY animated films (1996 vs. 2023)
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On top of the animation, modern pop music is shit. I've been noticing how chimp culture has affected everything. Lyrics, melodies, rhythms, everything has been dragged down to the lowest common denominator. And it's everywhere. All forms of entertainment are infested with crappy pop music: movies, TV, TV commercials, even theater. How many movies and musicals are "reimagining" an older work into a hip hop nightmare?
It's writing in general. If you listen and you don't have to listen too close to tell, you'll hear modern syntax being shoe horned into dialogue where it doesn't fit.
Star wars is my go to. Compare lines like "at last we will reveal ourselves. At last we will have revenge" with "we gotta take out that tower you with me?"
I've noticed that as well. Throwing in pop culture references and current slang rather than dialog of the relevant society, station, or time period.
Marvel movies made it quite obvious over their decade long run. It was particularly jarring for Thor and Loki's dialog. They started as regal characters, rulers of a planet, and they spoke like it. Over time, both of those characters started speaking like teenagers, their dialog consisted of internet memes strung together rather than the developed characters they started as.
That seems to be a feature of culture generally these days. People just quip memes and cultural references back and forth to one another rather than actually converse. I've caught myself doing it, and try to consciously avoid it, at least when having a meaningful conversation. To some extent that's just how communication and the conveyance of ideas works, but it's definitely a crutch and not very creative. Especially if you're trying to write something new. I guess that's the difference between art and "content", another word I have come to despise...