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[–]TiredJustTired 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Forget the underpriced tickets, you couldn't pay me to see the crap that's playing in theaters nowadays.

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

Very true. I think I've seen maybe 3 movies in the last 10 years. And what I watch at home is usually stuff from the 80s and 90s, latest, nearly all the time.

[–]TiredJustTired 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tonight I watched 1917 (meh) with my brother, yesterday night we watched Ad Astra (boooooring), and we are planning on watching the third installment of John Wick tomorrow. I am not being nostalgic when I say this, movies from the 80s/90s were genuinely better than they are today. I don't know what it is about 2000s, 2010s and now 2020s movies, they are all so uninteresting, so boring, so rehashed and overdone. There have been a few good movies in the last 20 years, but they are fewer and farther between those in the 80s and 90s.

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

It often seems to me that movies in the last 20 years or so are just remakes of older ones, in one way or another. Nothing new. No imagination. Just take the old version, with the same characters, and then give it a dark twist so it's violent and/or sexually grotesque and/or some ridiculous fantasy. I'm thinking of the remakes of Star Trek that put them in an "alternative universe" as a way to pretend to have more stories by twisting the head off something they weren't good enough to write themselves. Or the current remake of "Perry Mason", where he's no longer a lawyer, and no longer a good guy, and the whole thing is about being grotesque and over the top.

I am not becoming "nostalgic", but I'm also just not finding much of anything of value in what's offered through mainstream / corporate media creators any more.