What is your idea of "the good old days"?

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The nineties were ok lifestyle and politics wise.

However there were quite a few recessions. One of the reasons lifestyle was good is because people didn't buy loads of unnecessary crap and rents were low because people didn't have the money to afford more. Lots of loft living and businesses being set up in empty warehouses because it was dirt cheap as many businesses had gone under or moved out. Good if you had disposable cash but ordinary people were suffering.

Most media at that time was already derivative but it was still better than the crap now. Even the music 3 years ago was leagues ahead of the stuff released at the moment.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

All media is derivative, I don't know why everyone has this idea that it shouldn't be. In fact the trend-setters trying too hard to do something new is arguably one of the reasons modern media is so bad. Everyone knows modern Simpsons sucks and should just go back to being itself. And it was inspired the the Flintstones.

It does become a problem when everything wants to do the same thing. Like how every single TV show is trying to be Family Guy. But that doesn't make inspiration in itself bad.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We have the benefit of hindsight with old media. We get the sampled pick of the best of the best. Most of the crap is forgotten. There's more crap now than there was before. But that doesn't mean in 50 years our media era won't be remembered for the few gems.

Everyone tries to copy the successful show and you see it happen. Cartoons all try to copy family guy. Action movies all try to copy marvel. In the past everyone tried to copy star wars. Before that there was the great disaster movie tsunami of the 1970's of which we more or less only have the brilliant satire "Airplane" which has endured in the cultural consciousness. And even much of that the references are lost to the modern viewer. (Though most are timeless enough to be funny).

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're right. One of the movies was even erased from history (Shazaam).