I miss the old Hollywood..the one with good plots and no interest in religious nonsense and the need to have a baby nonsense.
shareHaving a baby nonsense XD
Clearly you have never had your biological clock ticking. My husband had wanted children for 15 years now and I can tell you there's nothing nonsensical about these kinds of instincts. And consequential talks and discussions are filled with drama. You are perhaps very young...?
That's not the old Hollywood- that's the shallow Hollywood of the post Hays Code period. The Hays period wasn't much better. Early Hollywood discussed family, religion, racial issues, and social issues such as drug and alcohol use and their effects.
The introduction of the Hays Code in the early thirties brought a puritanical censorship to bear on Hollywood production values. That lasted until the introduction of the ratings system and the abolition of the Hays Code in the sixties.
Post Code, Hollywood followed European leads in making movies with strong social content, moving away from The Sound Of Music, Paint Your Wagon and their ilk, and towards Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and their ilk.
The Reagan era of the cold war saw a shift towards trivial entertainment, with fewer social commentary movies and an abundance of action hero and shallow relationship romcoms. The prestige movie, a former cornerstone of Hollywood production, faded and was replaced in part by the rise of the Hollywood Indie era, as subsidiary labels, set up by the majors but fronting as independents, proliferated. I can only assume that is the era you are calling 'old Hollywood'.
The Best Picture Oscar for Crash signalled a watershed-like change in Hollywood's production values, back to its pre-Hays roots. The enduring financial success of high CGI action hero movies still outweighs these 'new' (old) family and social themed movies.
Michael's in the pond.