Let's say you hate 99% of newer movies.. What's the 1% you do you like?
EDIT: Movies from this century.. If you still don't know any, anything from the 80s onward.
from which year to the present?
shareThe classic Universal Monster films between 1931, beginning with "Dracula" (1931) and ending with "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). This also includes the Spanish cut of "Dracula", so that's a total of 31 films that hold a special place in my heart as a standout genre.
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I’ve always been partial to particular trusted directors, and since there aren’t very many of those left, I’m left looking forward to new releases by the likes of Lanthimos, Von Trier, Aronofsky, and the like. Generally, the rest,...meh!
shareCannot go wrong with anything involving the legendary John Hughes.
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How can anyone like new movies when they're 99.99999% comic book adaptations?
Just kidding. I love new movies. I love old movies. I love any movie!
I don't care much for Westerns or Mob flicks, though. My favorite western is actually the newer Lone Ranger! Seriously.
They don't re-make em like they used to!
Even people I know who like comics hate these movies, people who are now in their 30s.
I like comic book flicks because they tend to be sci fi. GOTG, all Avengers but 2, Thor Ragnarok, both Ant-Men.... all great movies, and all great sci fi and sci fantasy aka space opera like Star Wars.
Plus I liked Batman and Hulk when I was a kid due to the tv shows, so stuff like Dark Knight and The Inc Hulk (Norton version) are amazing to me.
How can anyone like new movies when they're 99.99999% comic book adaptations?
tru dat.
everytime i come to the front page of this site i count how many comic movies i see, and it makes me sad.
35 from the past 35 years
Amadeus
The Natural
Glory
Goodfellas
Silence of the Lambs
Dead Alive
GlenGarry Glen Ross
Falling Down
Natural Born Killers
Quiz Show
Apollo 13
The Sweet Hereafter
Pleasantville
Pi
Election
The Iron Giant
Amelie
Adaptation
LOTR: Return of the King
Take Out
Collateral
King Kong
Once
There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
Mary and Max
Black Swan
Melancholia
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Ex Machina
Whiplash
Arrival
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Rider
There's some on here I like, "There Will Be Blood" being a great one..
shareThat's a good list. I've only seen about 1/3 of them, but the ones I've seen I liked.
shareI tried to represent from every category(indie,tentpole,foreign, etc) and genre but I couldnt find much in comedy.
It's an interesting exercise to see what themes emerge from your choices across all those years.
I love comedy in general, but when it comes to films, it's slim pickings for good ones.
shareI've seen "Goodfellas", "There Will be Blood", "Once", and "The Dark Knight", and part of "Glory" on TV, all of which I liked.
I will be going to see the 30th Anniversary showing of "Glory" at a theatre not far from where I live, this coming July, which will be part of a 30th-year-anniversary national re-release in movie theatres.
I've also seen "Amadeus", which I didn't care for, however.
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I blame the writer's strike of 2008 for movie quality going down. The moment all that talent left Hollywood, the quality of films and tv suffered immensely, and it still suffers to this day.
shareThe writers had already left film for tv. That's how peak tv began. Writers becoming showrunners.
shareNo, many also left the tv sphere as well, which was why several of our favorite shows died off after the strike. A few survived because they planned ahead in how to preserve their work during and after the strike. Many shows did not.
shareYou'll have to be more specific. You can use the links below to point out the many and several that 'died off' due to the strike. Otherwise it's a hard sell to claim that the quality of tv shows has suffered immensely during the past 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_on_television
https://www.thewrap.com/23-tv-shows-most-affected-by-2007-2008-writers-strike-photos/
It should be noted that the majority of the tv shows featured in those links were dog crap, even BEFORE the strike. You'll notice a lot of them aren't around anymore, save for at least 1 or 2 that are still around.
I can give two examples for shows that died off as a direct result of the writer's strike:
The Unit, and Las Vegas. Both shows nosedived in quality almost immediately after the strike, with writing that was more consistent with what a high school kid would put together.
NCIS was able to survive because the people making the show planned ahead and there were notably fewer episodes that season.
You will note that channels like ABC are riddled with really bad, basement-quality writing in their shows that even the worst writers on fanfiction.net couldn't achieve. Acting quality has gone down a lot too. There is almost nothing original anymore, just extremely obvious re-hashes of stuff that was made in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not to mention trying to re-boot older tv series with disastrous results.
Comedy has also suffered, since everyone wants to play the "who is more offended?" contest and can't take a joke.
Sci-fi has been in the toilet since 2000, with everyone going the dark, miserable, dystopian route.
So you can imagine why I don't watch much mainstream tv anymore. 99% of it caters to the Lowest Mental Common Denominator crowd.
Hmmmm...
It seems to me that this is more about a few of your personal preferences rather than "our favorite shows" and tv as a whole falling off a cliff for 10 years due to some permanent exodus of ace writers that never happened. And strangely you dont mention cable or other subscription services at all, where so many shows have been lauded for their quality.
This was before Netflix came about. Are you actually denying that the Writer's Strike never happened? What were you doing in 2008, living under a rock?
shareThere's this thing called 'cable tv' that existed even before Netflix. And its premium channels have been delivering quality content (the kind that dwarfs a middling broadcast show like Las Vegas) for the decades before and after the strike.
And no, I dont deny the strike. I only deny the exaggerated negative long-term effects you ascribe to it. 2008 will never been known as "The Year Quality TV Died" b/c all the good writers "left Hollywood" forever. That's not what happened. In fact, things got better after the strike. Prestige TV began to expand rather than contract.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/10-years-ago-screenwriters-went-on-strike-and-changed-television-forever_us_5a7b3544e4b08dfc92ff2b32
"Sure, standout shows like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” predated the walkout, but he believes writers had “firmer ground” to work on following the strike and were able to experiment with a plethora of innovative scripted series in ways they weren’t able to before ― knowing that they have the option of pitching their shows to multiple networks, premium channels and streaming sites. "
“It’s certainly true that for a while people were more worried that what we did was hand the industry over to reality TV, and that definitely has not happened,” Peterson added. “What we’ve seen since the strike is an enormous explosion of high-budget scripted television. Reality definitely supplanted scripted for a while but in the 10 years since the strike, scripted has just expanded beyond anyone’s dreams.”
As I said, this seems to be more about a couple of your favorites rather the global downturn you described. The strike was resolved and quality content expanded more than ever.
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I know what you mean, and mom brought this up back in '08 as well: there is no way anyone who helped write movies or tv shows all the way back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, could have ever predicted what the DVD (and later streaming) industry would do to transform the entertainment market. I do think it was very unfair how these people were not being paid royalties for the shows that THEY WROTE when those shows were digitally remastered, recorded onto DVDs and being sold decades later.
Both DVD's and stream have unfortunately brought about a problem involving binge-watchers, and people demanding new material on shows, and studios taking longer to make said shows and not being able to meet supply and demand as fast as they could before 2000.