Are we still stuck in the early 00s?

It's not that so much as that just this MONTH we have Underworld, xXx, and RE sequels. It's the greatest month for movies ever if you were a college freshman in 2003 with terrible taste in everything and never changed.

Child of the Eighties.
Man of the Nineties.
Man-Child of the Twenty-First Century.

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There has never ,in the history of cinema, been a time without sequels, remakes, and franchises.

Yeah, but usually they were regulated to a specific decade, look at the Freddy and Jason movies, the original run of Friday the 13th movies started in 1980 and was done by 1989 other than once in a blue moon revivals in 1993 and 2002, so that's a 9 year period for the main series, all regulated to the 1980s.

The Nightmare on Elmstreet movies lasted from 1984 and was done by 1991, other than a post modern revival in 1994 that was it until the remake in 2010.

(for the purposes of this I'm counting Freddy vs Jason as a spinoff rather than a full fledged sequel)

Contrast that with Resident Evil, Underworld and Fast & the Furious, all have been going steadily within the same continuity, that is no remakes, no spinoffs for well over a decade each.

Or to put it another way they're all franchises that started in the early 00s and here we are entering the late states of an entire different decade and they're still going, that's almost like if they were still regularly coming out with Friday the 13th movies as late as 1997.

I do think modern American culture is stuck in a rut in many ways and used to evolve at a faster pace, look at music for example, over the course of the 2010s the biggest artists have been composed of mostly who was already big in the late 00s, like Taylor Swift, could you imagine a musician who was big in 1989 being even bigger by 1997?

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