Is film better or worse than before

[partis]

I was just wondering what you guys things cause sometimes I just think in the mainstream movies are getting pretty bad and I really feel I need to watch a film from the 80s and 90s cause somethings been lost. There are OBVIOUSLY exceptions.

Theres too many sequels and remakes, you can almost feel there trying really hard for the audience to like a film but its just a mixture of old film parts and hasnt got a real heart.

I think modern films with modern techniques can be really good and visually amazing but when its bad its really bad, whilst before even like sets made of tinfoil seem more real cause they are real

And theres something nice about old picture qualitys that isnt HD or crystal clear cause life isnt HD.

[Jake]

I was just wondering what you guys things cause sometimes I just think in the mainstream movies are getting pretty bad and I really feel I need to watch a film from the 80s and 90s cause somethings been lost. There are OBVIOUSLY exceptions.

Theres too many sequels and remakes, you can almost feel there trying really hard for the audience to like a film but its just a mixture of old film parts and hasnt got a real heart.

I think modern films with modern techniques can be really good and visually amazing but when its bad its really bad, whilst before even like sets made of tinfoil seem more real cause they are real

And theres something nice about old picture qualitys that isnt HD or crystal clear cause life isnt HD.

That my Partis dude it's because you just lime me and many others from the 80's and YES double YES the movies are loosing it big time... so much that I'm actually showing my child everything about the 80's. Last day we were watching the Never Ending Story and now I've got them Labyrinth and they love it... my 13 years old kept on watching them. They we're great for imagination and creativity... even Harry Potter doesn't measure to those we had years ago. Call it nostalgia, but I'm an 80's dude and I miss my decade so much.

Tomorrow we're having a Mystery Cities of Gold Marathon we'll be watching all 36 episode and since my buddies from France sent me the new version 30 years later we're adding those new 26 episodes to it. I do that quite often when I organize parties and so far it always have been successful even my 27 years old husband loves them and it helps him understand my nonchalant philosophy

[DanK]

In my personal opinion, I don't think it's better or worse. I enjoy movies less than I used to when I was younger because I have more life experience now. When I was younger, everything was new and exciting (because I had never seen it). Now I've seen a lot of things in this world. So when I see new movies, there aren't really "new" things to see. They're just old stuff, old storyline, with a little adjustment, new casts and better visual effects and resolution. And this is also how I think about everything in my life. kinda sad. gotta keep finding new things to enjoy

[partis]

In my personal opinion, I don't think it's better or worse. I enjoy movies less than I used to when I was younger because I have more life experience now. When I was younger, everything was new and exciting (because I had never seen it). Now I've seen a lot of things in this world. So when I see new movies, there aren't really "new" things to see. They're just old stuff, old storyline, with a little adjustment, new casts and better visual effects and resolution. And this is also how I think about everything in my life. kinda sad. gotta keep finding new things to enjoy

I think the same thing actually.

Though i think in another way kids arent getting as good films or as exciting, though maybe it is just me lol … not sure hmm there are still films i enjoy and i do think film has changed a lot just in 20 years.

I like TI west’s horror movies and he does a perfects 80s style.

[Lilitu]

I dunno, films are broad and varied, you can't really say whether as a whole all film is better or worse.

Yes, to be honest, I haven't seen a really good movie at the regular cinema for a very very long time, implying that mainstream movies are getting worse? But at the same time, you have so many other good movies around. Film is still a developing medium, it's very new.

Not all old movies are good, there are plenty of bad ones, and lots of good ones.

A lot of people judge old movies through rose-coloured lenses. Today's movies aren't all bad, you just have to pick the right ones.

And you have to keep in mind that it's still big business, so many of the bad movies are purely commercial garbage. I do admit in the past, childrens shows, and commercialised entertainment was much better. I think a lot of writers are either lazy, uninspired, or creatively hindered now, resulting in the bad remakes/sequels/children's movies.

To be honest, movies nowadays really need better writers...

Gravity, yes it was really pretty. Not very good script (shitscript) and kind of poorly cast.

[sillyboy86]

Honestly I watched a lot of movies in the past, I used to go to the cinema or on the 'sneak- preview channels' on tv, few months or weeks after the release, but I stopped more or less in 2009.
One of the reason is that I was a little bored, the most of the recent movies are like 'bad reboot' of older films.
A lot of times I watched a film thinking 'ok this is ridiculous, stereotypical and technically wrong...' I always been a little critic, but maybe my taste is changed...

In the last years I really watched few movies...

[DanK]

I've never watched any of TI West's movies. Actually I never heard his name before lol I guess I don't watch movies that much.

I honestly don't know what kids these days watch. I remember myself enjoying cartoons from walt disney as a kid.

I think I've watched less than 10 movies this year. Now I enjoy watching TV series more than movies. I don't like that they sometimes try to put everything (love, sex, action scene, etc) in one movie that lasts about 90 minutes. I feel like "can't you just focus on action scene?" "you know that you don't have to include love and sex into the movie to make good movie, right? I know this is not about new or old movies. It has been like this since forever. So I guess I have changed more than movie industry lol

[sillyboy86]

Now I enjoy watching TV series more than movies...

I watch few tv series, and very rarely but I think that today, many of these TV series are better than many movies.
Directors, actors, CG etc are in general on the same level (Obviously except the Masters etc), a tv series could be less shallow than a movie and another strong thing is the plot! Many tv series are based on books, not on a random/generic idea... And this is a big difference.
Once probably was the opposite, the writers of the movies used to spend a lot of time and energies like writing a book.

[HumbleTangerine]

Hmm... I'm not sure. To be honest, I don't think there's that much of a difference. Although modern movies have had more time to absorb frustrating clichés and re-used tropes.

[Jake]

Hmm... I'm not sure. To be honest, I don't think there's that much of a difference. Although modern movies have had more time to absorb frustrating clichés and re-used tropes.

You're frikin 18 dude sure you don't see IT... try being 35 and more and you'll see the difference. I sure do see the darn difference... oh wait it also the fact that I am a Director but yeah I can see the difference and it's huge.