Is it me, or are good movies becoming extinct?

[optimus]

It used to be that I would go see a movie again if I truely enjoyed it. To be honest, movies these days just have not lived up to their potential and it's sad. Hollywood hypes these movies to no end, and you end up wanting to see the credits roll 30 minutes after it starts.

For some reason, I just feel that there are no more stories to be told out there, and hollywood is running out of ways to entertain the general public. One thing that I noticed is all the remakes that are being done. There was no need for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Stepford Wives (haven't seen it yet, but heard it was a horrible remake), Dawn of the Dead and the many others that are on the way.

The last movie that I can remember seeing twice in a theater (without being forced) was Schindler's List.

Don't get me wrong, there are decent movies out there, but none that really leave me wanting to praise about it to friends and family.

I just think there are more and more movies out there that don't provide enough shock value anymore. Everything seems to have been done already. I'm sure it's difficult to write a decent movie, as I know that I'm not creative enough to write one myself.

Thank you for listening...

[ANavissi500]

It's just you. I think today's films are just as good as "Classic Hollywood" fare. Of course there are a lot of crappy films too but sift through those. I probably like 80 percent of movies I see.

[cstroman]

Movies now days are getting worse because the people making them are getting lazier and lazier. There are certain things that make a good movie like Plot/Story, Entertainment Value, Shooting, Mood, etc. etc.

Many movies made now are of the "yeah the movie had no plot but the acting was great"

WTF! A good movie would have good EVERYTHING. It would be appealing on many levels in many aspects.

For instance look at Lost in Translation. It had some great things and then others that just sucked and I mean that in a bad way not in a "get on your knees in front of me Scarlett" good way.

But people were content to overlook the bad.

I think that alot of people have lowered their level of standards when it comes to movie critique. The filming of the most boring and mundane is being hyped as "powerful" or "gripping".

Movies are Visual Storytelling. It would be nice if people got back to the basics of movie making and actually placed upon themselves "personal restrictions" to force themselves to be creative.

Right now they have NO restrictions and willfully choose to NOT be creative.

Sad indeed.

[BorderEevilIII]

Yes studios rather sleep w/ a goat than bank on "originality" choose mindless sequels and stories/plots that has been done million times over. :mad:

[The Postmaster General]

Sounds like you don't like the modern style.

I hardly think you'll find people who say newer movies aren't good on a message board where the logo is a homage to Fight Club.

[Tweek]

I blame whatever movie was the first big blockbuster (i'm thinking "Jaws")
Not to say it isnt a good movie, but that's what lead us into the current state of hollywood

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by Tweek
I blame whatever movie was the first big blockbuster (i'm thinking "Jaws")
Not to say it isnt a good movie, but that's what lead us into the current state of hollywood

Blame Star Wars. Jaws was the first modern blockbuster, but Star Wars got the ball rolling and spawned thousands of rip-offs.

But the world of film has always had shit. We just don't remember shitty movies from the 1920s because they were either lost or forgotten. Beyond that mostly forgotten. People will think the same thing about films thirty years from now because films like Stepford Wives and White Chicks will be long forgotten about and it'd make them assume we rarely had shitty movies.

[Mog]

Let's not forget that most of us have become jaded since we've pretty much grown into film. When I was younger I would see a movie 3, maybe 4 times. But it seems like they just keep getting suckier and suckier. I remember when I first saw Mortal Kombat. I thought it was the coolest kung-fu film ever made. I watch it today, and I can barely sit through it. Everyone's so slow and it looks so fake and the CGI, eugh. It's so rare for me to come across a good movie today. Nothing has been made recently that I actually want to own. I look at my movie "want" list and discovered that a lot (the majority) of the movies were made before 1998.

So the question is...are movies getting crappier, or are we just spoiled?


Still writing my endless movie "want" list,
Mog

[Cronos]

i thought this a few years ago but now IMO films are starting to get better, sure there still arent many truly great films but there have been a number that i have thought were amazing

[sharkstank]

i think films are still in the same range. u have great, good, bad, horrible and classics.
so its just u:D
this year in particular has been pretty good so far

lets just forget the year 2000 though

WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[HeavyK]

Good movies today are a dying breed. Whenever i rent or buy DVD movies i almost always get older ones.

[Shockwave]

I think good movies are on the upswing. Maybe a few years back things were starting to roll downhill but for the most part, i think the movies are getting smarter.

[TheDeadWalk]

I think this thread, and the rant about "seeing movies only because _____ is hot!!" should get together and go bowling with John Bender's father.

A lot of schmoes recognize a laziness in today's standard of films, but a lot of other schmoes are blantantly admitting in the other thread that more often than not they see a movie because they find the lead star sexually attractive.

Coincidence?

[Badbird]

No. I think in any year, in any decade, you can find truly great movies, as well as truly bad ones.

It's just cause you live in the now. You're exposed to more bad movies because they're current. I'm sure if you went back to, say 1975, and watched all the movies released, you'd hate most of them. Twenty five years from now, no one is going to remember Connie and Carla, or Gigli. But they will remember LOTR and The Matrix.

Not only that, but people tend to idolize older movies simply because you know them so well. Take a standard classic like Jaws. You've probably seen it a hundred times. You know every twist in the plot. Since you've seen it X number of times and know what's going to happen, you don't concentrate so much on it and start looking at the smaller things in the background that you never notice the first time through. You begin to notice tiny little things: facial expressions, background action, odd dialogue, unique cinematography, etc. Small things you can't possible apreciate when you see a movie once or twice.

Now, because you notice all this great stuff because you've seen a classic movie so many times, and you don't notice this on a newer movie you've seen once or twice, you automatically assume all classic movies are brilliant and all new movies are crap. But people have always said these things. Like in the 80s, but now we talk of such classics as Robocop, Die Hard, Aliens, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander, etc. Movies that were probably well liked when they came out, but "Not as good as they were in the old days." But one day you'll have seen X2 500 times and declair it infinietly better than the movies coming out in Summer 2013.

I think that the more movies you see, the more jaded you get. And the more picky. I know that even in just the past few years I've gotten more picky, mostly due to gutless PG-13 syndrome, yet Equilibrium just came out in 2002 and I think it;s the best movie I've ever seen.