46 years ago the average blockbuster looked like this, it shared the billboard with at least 3 other flicks just as good, all competing for the eyes of your average middle class familyat the time of course these were all considered "just turn off your brain" entertainmentthe tickets were two dollars and film critics saw them as too low-brow to dignify with a reviewthoughts?
The lack of revenue from physical media sales made studios risk adverseNow kill yourself
>>217477939FPBPStudios also rightly understood that Americans have been getting exponentially dumber and more distractable and now most need basic plot points reiterated 3-4x times just for them to process what's going on.https://ew.com/matt-damon-says-netflix-wants-plot-repeated-in-dialogue-for-viewers-on-phones-11887857
>>217477908Adult people stopped going to the movies.
>>217477939>The lack of revenue from physical media sales made studios risk adversePhysical media was from early 1980s to early 2010s. The made lots of great movies before the 1980s.And when a movie goes to a streaming service, the streaming service is paying for it.
>>217477908That's wasn't an average blockbuster.
>>217478007Adults don't exist anymore. Just overgrown children.
>>217477908This wasn't low brow. It was the adaptation of a famous play by Peter Shaffer. And it didn't even crack into the top 50 in the box office in the US.
>>217477908Home entertainment became better and cheaperWasting hours on 4chan is free
>>217477908The middle class is evaporating, ethnic homogeneity has been all but destroyed, everyone is a phone addict, and movies are struggling to compete against social media and video games. You fuckers don't know how lucky you are that there's still great movies being made.
>>217477908>at the time of course these were all considered "just turn off your brain" entertainmentit won 8 oscars including best picture
>>217478166>You fuckers don't know how lucky you are that there's still great movies being made.What movies are those? I legit can't remember the last good movie that came out.
>>217478037>>217478119>>21747818015 years ago, the average white trash junkie high school dropout low level dealer loser with no prospects listened to progressive rock and could hold extended discussions about emmy awarded series like babylon 5 or star trek. in fact they were more aware of the established lore and character personalities than modern scriptwriters
>>217478119>And it didn't even crack into the top 50 in the box office in the US.It made 5 times its budget at the box office.
>>217477908I was just watching this the other day. The opening credits scene alone is better than any movie that came out this decade. It’s a sad state of affairs
>>217477908>thoughts?Masterpiece.
>>217478283Because you don't care. And I'm not going to spoonfeed you.
>>217478351It's mediocre. Classic Friedkin half-mast flick.
>>217478296This is so accurate, espceciallly if you were around /mu/ in 2011. I genuinely think the (you know who) people deployed a bunch of anti intellectual shills on popular forums and started shit like le wrong generation to shame people who thought modern music, specifically modern trash rap music, was shit. And that turned every retard into post ironic shells of actual people incapable of being sincere
>>217478306It got blown out of the water by Revenge of the Nerds and Hot Dog: the Movie >t. Oldfag who was there and knows how little things actually change >>217478296Is kinda right though; popular music has gone down the shitterI blame the war on drugs but God knows there's not one definitive reason
>>217477908Amadeus was neither "average" nor a "blockbuster". What a dumb thread.
>>217477908People only want either escapist fantasy or movies that validate their preexisting opinions (or both) because most popular media has devolved into a drug that people ingest to soothe their existential dread
>>217478636>validate their preexisting opinionsLike OP (if he wasn't baiting)?
>>217478725What preexisting opinions do you imagine Amadeus is trying to validate?
>>217478749That's not what I said. This entire thread is an obvious sham mischaracterizing the movie in favor of (pretend) making a point along the lines of 'old good, new bad".
>>217477974Netflix deliberately trained and fostered their audience to be like that.
>>217478786It's what I was saying and you're quoting me and trying to misattribute some meaning to it. Or are you really saying that two people in agreement on an imageboard is equivocal to art that already presupposes the audience's agreement to its themes? The sentiment of "Old good, new bad" isn't meant to be taken absolutely, but for the purposes of our current timeframe, it is locally accurate. Films have undoubtedly declined in quality. The audiences have expressed it, filmmakers and actors have expressed it, and the observable declining revenue of Hollywood implicitly expresses it.
>>217477908>46 years agoAmadeus came out in 1984, retard
>overrated mayo monkey trash that got glazed by uncs because it featured fellow mayo monkeysstfu last year had stuff like sinners, we are eating good
>>217478928Pretend he said 42 years ago you pedantic jackass>>217478460I genuinely can’t think of a song written after the mid 2000s that I would choose to listen to or even just not skip. Shit’s dire out there
Ironically, the film is about the conflict between genius and mediocrity.
>>217478362>couldn’t even name oneYou’re probably afraid someone is gonna call whatever gay movie you name shit and they’d most likely be right
>>217477939But they continuously throw away millions producing movies too progressive for people to want to watch
>>217478462>It got blown out of the water by Revenge of the Nerds and Hot Dog: the MovieYou're retarded. Movies aren't a competition with one another. All the studio cares about is "did it make us money".
>>217477908People used to value education and intelligence so they wanted to watch a movie about Mozart of all people. Now everyone is a bunch of idiots who value the fact that they don't know anything.
>>217478950>zoomie learns le epic racial slur>today, i will use it to bait /tv/
