Exactly. Blade was highly popular and he was seen as a really cool character. Really annoyed me how they marketed Black Panther as if no black person had ever been in a movie before. Heck, I know they weren’t marvel or dc characters but I thought blankman and meteor man were decent.
Same here. In my area there are quite a few free over the air digital channels that show nothing but older shows. Lot of good movies prior to 60s as well. A great thing about the free streaming services is that they have a good library of old content.
The reason I stopped with Tubi is I'd be whisked away into an idyllic time and place like with the Andy Griffith show and then, boom, an ad pops up and it's full of all the modern racial politics and feminism and suddenly my blood pressure is rising.
It defeats the entire purpose of watching old shows when I get hit in the face with "THE MESSAGE" ™ every 12 minutes.
I would not mind advertisements at all if it were just some benign commercial selling you insurance with zero agenda...stuff like in the 90s, normal calm commercials that are inoffensive and chill.
Now commercials literally make me angry.
It's funny because I listen to AM radio now because Anthony Cumia is on WABC 77, and because it's a conservative station with likely an older audience, one of the commercials is one of Ryan Reynolds mobile phone commercials that I've seen on TV, only here, he talks in a calm, relaxing tone, like how I remember commercials being when I'd visit my grandparents.
He tones down his "ryan reynolds-ness" for the sake of catering to a different demographic, which lets me know that advertisers know how to be less obnoxious, they just choose not to.
The problem is they refuse to make movies with good writing. It's all about diversity instead.
Precisely why my rule of thumb is not to watch anything made after 2014 unless I get a recommendation from a trusted source
You know what I remember? People liking Blade. Turns out it was a good movie, with a great actor.
Exactly. Blade was highly popular and he was seen as a really cool character. Really annoyed me how they marketed Black Panther as if no black person had ever been in a movie before. Heck, I know they weren’t marvel or dc characters but I thought blankman and meteor man were decent.
Blankman is funny.
Funny thing is, Blade was a Marvel character, but comic book movies had such a bad reputation back then that none of the marketing mentioned it.
Dude, me and you have the same cut-off year!
That's my cutoff year in theory, but in practice I pretty much only ever watch things from like 2005 and earlier.
Late 60s to the end of the 90s is my Goldilocks zone and it's rare I watch something else.
So many great films from that era that I haven't seen yet.
Same here. In my area there are quite a few free over the air digital channels that show nothing but older shows. Lot of good movies prior to 60s as well. A great thing about the free streaming services is that they have a good library of old content.
Do they have ads?
The reason I stopped with Tubi is I'd be whisked away into an idyllic time and place like with the Andy Griffith show and then, boom, an ad pops up and it's full of all the modern racial politics and feminism and suddenly my blood pressure is rising.
It defeats the entire purpose of watching old shows when I get hit in the face with "THE MESSAGE" ™ every 12 minutes.
I would not mind advertisements at all if it were just some benign commercial selling you insurance with zero agenda...stuff like in the 90s, normal calm commercials that are inoffensive and chill.
Now commercials literally make me angry.
It's funny because I listen to AM radio now because Anthony Cumia is on WABC 77, and because it's a conservative station with likely an older audience, one of the commercials is one of Ryan Reynolds mobile phone commercials that I've seen on TV, only here, he talks in a calm, relaxing tone, like how I remember commercials being when I'd visit my grandparents.
He tones down his "ryan reynolds-ness" for the sake of catering to a different demographic, which lets me know that advertisers know how to be less obnoxious, they just choose not to.
They're not refusing. They aren't capable of writing something good.
That’s certainly true