Anyone else been disappointed by movies the last few years?

I don't know, I felt quality of Hollywood movies are about the same whether in 1990s or 2010s.

For the last 3-4 years, movies that I enjoyed multiple times are...
Edge of Tomorrow, Rush, Whiplash and Ex Machina.

And then there are movies I enjoyed quite immensely (but not multiple viewings)...
Silence, Moonlight, Logan, Hacksaw Ridge, Sicario, Mad Max: Fury Road and Deadpool.

So, I guess I'm good.

I've been feeling this way since the early 2000s.

5 of the top 10 domestic box office movies this week are either sequels, remakes or franchise continuations. This is my biggest issue with Hollywood.
Some weeks it's as high as 7 of the top 10. Hollywood takes no chances anymore and is determined to regurgitate the same movies in the name of mass appeal.

I almost stopped attending movie theaters. Mostly washed out big budgeted non-sense and few of them are good (Mad Max and Pacific Rim immediately come to my mind). These movies can't produce great directors or actors - they consume them. And it is so ridiculous when these movies pose as serious. I had too much hard time restraining myself from laughting at The Dark Knight Rises.

Hollywood is walking on thin ice with all those comic book movies and crappy remakes and reboots. They alienated the audience. Few flops and everything will go under.

All the movies that people rave about or seem appealing in the previews have been either a fucking bore or just plain awful.

I walked out of Inherent Vice
Gravity was annoying
Interstellar was a fucking mess
Birdman was okay but kinda flat
The Revenant was meh

and I leave the theater shaking my head thinking people actually think these movies are great? Do they not have standards or any taste? Are they newborn babies and these are the first movies they've ever seen? Do they just want to complete shut their brain off and stare at pretty images?

Then I see Horrible Bosses 2 and people are bashing the hell out of it, and it's nothing but original jokes and plot with great pacing and no bad lulls. I dunno. I give up trying to figure it out.

More like the past decade at the very least

I hadn't rewatched a movie close after the first viewing since... forever, until Mad Max: Fury Road came along. Yes, it's a sequel, but you can see the craft and care that went into it. But that one is the exception.

I've never really been a huge fan of the big spectacle movies, but in recent years I don't even expect something to be dumb fun like Independence Day, or Armageddon even. I watch one of those Superhero movies and it's just Bland Blandness, with a side serving of Blah... And if it's not bland, it's a confusing mess of... stuff. Or a Dark Retelling (Damn you Nolan!).

But still, there's a blip sometimes. Nightcrawler was great. Denis Villeneuve makes interesting stuff. Birdman and The Revenant were if nothing else, ambitious. I'll even put Guardians of the Galaxy and Logan here, because they at least had some character. (There are probably others, that I can't think of right now).

I hope we're approaching a tipping point with these rebootquels. The audience must get tired of them at some point. And maybe we'll see a new wave of directors that want to flip the order, hopefully.

I agree, sam. There have been some good movies, but no great ones imho.


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