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They're just not making movies like they used to


I grew up watching the classic movies on TV. Even B movies were good in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s.

I'm an avid horror, sci-fi and thriller/action fan but I've been looking for two years and I've only found two movies that I actually liked, Atomic Blonde and Train to Busan.

The rest I could barely watch to the end. I search Google for new movie releases going back three years to the present day and nothing appeals to me. Those I have tried to watch like A Quiet Place and Upgrade have been awful. Bad acting, boring plots and misguided casting. Dire scripts, too. And yet these are the movies that are being hailed as great.

Movie making is not what it used to be. Below par acting, awful scripts and rehashes of old movies, like It and Death Wish. There are many more remakes. No original ideas.

Anyone agree?

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yes, its fucking Marvel and DC.
They are the Simon Cowell of movies.

although i watched this recently , made in 2017
https://moviechat.org/tt5710514/I-Dont-Feel-at-Home-in-This-World-Anymore
that was ok

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Upgrade wasn't that bad. At least the action scenes offer something new. I agree the script was terrible. What's with the sneeze killing... it was just cringeworthy and simply unnecessary.

Hell, why they even have arms implanted with guns if you can simply kill people with a sneeze. That's just ridiculously over the top.

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Not only that, but those rehashes are winning awards.

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Movies suck today because most of the people making them came from the generation that grew up on junk media and nothing else. So, they never learned the craft.

For example, there's a sci-fi author who proudly wrote in his bio that he grew up on comic books and cartoons and never thought he'd never finish reading a book. Yet he's writing books. A lot of screenwriters and filmmakers are like this guy. I don't think any of them have seen at least half of the AFIs best movies of all time list.

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right

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A Quiet Place and Upgrade were decent not great. I don't think there are any great movies anymore.

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I have to disagree
While you are correct that many of the 'oldies' are real gems (especially in the crime and horror genres) I feel like lots of fun, interesting and thrilling movies are still being made

Wether it's cheap indies or major studio productions with mega budgets...I find plenty of good movies to watch
I hear this complaint a lot and often from people I like and enjoy...I just cannot agree

Nice having you around Filmmania...you'll find lots of movie lovers here:)

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Part of it has to do with a newer generation of writers and movie-makers who were raised in the 90s and early 2000s, who never got a chance to see what real creativity looked like. Many of the writers we have in show biz today don't even know what the world was like before the internet came onto the scene. Too many never sat down with a book, saw the older films, or even tried to come up with something original.

Another issue was the Writer's Strike that took place in 2008. Many good writers for tv shows and movies were angry that they weren't being given credit or paid royalties for all the DVD sets being sold with THEIR work on it. Even worse, when the lawsuit was finally settled, a large chunk of those writers were fed up with what Hollywood and tv had become and quit in anger. If you take a close look, you can see the difference in tv shows and movies after 2008, how their quality declines sharply. Some tv shows died immediately from lack of creative writers, and it's been getting worse for the past 11 years.

One final issue is something I saw someone else bring up many times on this site. Hollywood's playing it safe by working within a certain "comfort zone" of films that are guaranteed to get butts into theater seats, and that's one reason they've made so many superhero movies in the past decade. They're also terrified of trying something new, for fear that they won't get as much money out of it, or they know it'll be a failure, due to the lack of truly talented writers available.

However, I think the bad re-boots are just as poor a gamble as trying something different from the norm.

It also doesn't help that Hollywood has been alienating some of their largest customer bases over the past 3 years alone, simply due to letting politics and ideologies get in the way. It's very sad to watch.

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For a long time I thought it was just nostalgia but I haven't been excited about any movie for a long time. In mainstream movies they can no longer have characters who are not politically correct otherwise they get hammered by twitter and other vapid social media, so everyone feels generic. You also have a lot of gender politics invading movies and not for the better. Then there is the fact that Hollywood has been neutering movies to appeal to a wider demographic, basically they all feel like they came off a factory assembly line. This video gives some concrete examples showing how Hollywood is neutering movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-NeJRrgoTY

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Great video.

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Culture warrior millennial bullshit.

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I can't tell if you agree or disagree.

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I disagree 100%.

What you're talking about is culture warrior bullshit, where white millennial-age males have spun a fantasy about why there are "suddenly" minorities and women in movies and mainstream media when they were there the entire time and have been for literally 50 plus years already.

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Hmmm, that's an unique take I haven't heard before but isn't what we're talking about. Check out the video I linked and see examples.

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That's how I felt too. For so long I thought the movies I loved were because it provided me with nostalgia and that's why I liked them so much but then I noticed I haven't been as interested in movie trailers as much as I used to. When I was younger I would watch trailers 10+ times, but now I can't remember any that I saw more than twice. Movies are definitely on a decline.

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