If you could present one modern movie to make the case that not all new movies are shit, which would it be?
>>220585185whatever had a budget of over 50m and bombed at the box office, pick one for me
>>220585185PHM was a laugh a minute romo that was fun for the whole family. It was like Paddington 2 for people who own a whiteboard.But honestly, yeah: by all accounts it landed hard. Big box office, strong reviews, and people seem especially happy with Rocky. It’s already available to buy/rent digitally as of May 2026.
>>220585185Define "modern". Millennials still think stuff from 20 years ago like Avatar are new
>gen x is the fat insufferable woman with no tastesounds about right
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>>220585929The 00's are still new because it's the last time we had anything approaching a serious culture. You wouldn't get it. The 10's and 20's can effectively be written off as mistakes.
>>220585185Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (which is about how things were once not shit)
>>220585185F1!
>>220586055>the [time I was coming of age] is the last time we had anything approaching a serious culturehow original and brave
>>220586327he's pretty close to right though. the '20s in particular are the worst cultural nadir in living memory, there is fucking nothing of value being produced anywhere in the west
>>220586355>there is fucking nothing of value being produced anywhere in the westExcept some of the highest grossing films in history? Y'know, the actual quantifiable measure of value. But I'm guessing you meant "stuff I like" instead of the actual definition.
>>220586520you overplayed this
>>220586327No. This anon is correct: >>220586055Things begin to decline and never recover following a series of events: the dotcom crash, 9/11, the global financial crisis, and then bizarrely Kony 2012. You can follow this forward even more into COVID where things dropped even further. I'm not even so cynical to say things can't or won't get better, but they have been progressively getting worse and that isn't as clearly recognizable of a pattern going back to even like the 1930s.
>>220586535>i've been BTFO (also i don't capitalize because i'm ~2cool4u)>>220586569> they have been progressively getting worse and that isn't as clearly recognizable of a pattern going back to even like the 1930s.Yeah things are so much worse now than the literal great depression. Lmao
>>220586569>declineby definition you perceive decline based on a baseline so your entire analysis in dependent on your initial standard. You already made a judgement of quality when you say things got "worse". You can track that things became more cynical, atomized, quicker, whatever but saying that equals worse reveals your standard. Your take is a little more nuanced but don't you see that anon has a comically reductionist view that boils down to old man yelling at cloud?>progressively getting worse and that isn't as clearly recognizable of a pattern going back to even like the 1930s.what I know is the biggest economic growth of human history allowed for major production of culture and following 2 world wars the world was more susceptible to diversyfying their artistic movements. How does that equal good or bad? is the endless western (the genre) slop of the 60s accounted for? the explicitly subversive movements in all arts coming from that time? brutalism ruining architecture since the 40s? how about mtv slopifying the music industry? I bet that anon thinks mtv is high culture.
>>220585185Old HenryPerfect DaysAnother RoundAll came out post covid and are actually good.I struggle to name many others though.
The "generational divide" was engineered by you-know-whats so americans would hate other people of their own ethnicity
>>220586988it definitely wasn't, gen x really is that insufferable
>>220586988Precisely.It's to keep everyone bickering amongst themselves to keep them from going after the parasites that are destroying their democracy and stealing all their tax money for their own purposes.
>>220586994NTA You're falling for the biggest load of bait in the world, mate.
>>220586994t. useful idiot
>>220587036it's not bait. gen x has never produced a single thing of value. they constantly denigrate the good and beautiful. they are a malformed generation, and the world would be better off if they all died this very instant
>>220585185Top Gun Maverick
>>220585185>new moviesImpossible. I can't think of a recent movie that isn't shit.
