[ SECRET POST #2742 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2742 ⌋

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Comments

[dethtoll]

I agree with the secret in principle, but you ruined it with the implication that everything today sucks and older stuff is inherently better. Sorry cupcake it don't work that way. A lot of shit got made then, a lot of gold gets made now. Bored of this whole sentiment. It's just as obnoxious as people who won't watch anything that isn't under ten years old.

(for what it's worth my favourite era of film is the late 70s to the mid-80s)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree so hard with this.

You know why it seems like "everything was better" back in the Good Ol' Days? It's because the good shit is what's remembered. Forty years from now, someone will be like, "man, I wish movies today were like movies in the 20-teens" because they'll have only seen today's "gold" and not the streambeds of shit that it was buried in.

[dethtoll]

Absolutely.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. Rose colored glasses, OP. It's fine to indulge in nostalgia, but don't let it skew your whole perspective.

[(Anonymous)]

Thisssssss

[cbrachyrhynchos]

A lot of our rose-colored glasses regarding classic Hollywood is largely because only the most beloved or most critically praised movies stay in print or in syndication.

[dethtoll]

This is true. Makes me wonder how we'll regard contemporary entertainment media in 40 years now that pretty much everything is essentially "in print" as long as it's on the internet somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a story that It's a Wonderful Life only ever became one of the most popular Christmas movies ever because of a clerical error led to lapsed copyright in the 70s, meaning that every TV station ever could play it endlessly for cheap. It was never originally critically acclaimed, it just became beloved because no-one cared enough to contest a lapsed copyright until 1993, and in the interim the sheer volume of airings meant that everybody and their dog knew the movie backwards.

[comradesmiler]

+1
Seriously I've had enough of that shit.

[ex_mek82]

You're right on the nose with that one.

That's what drives me nuts when people say "Oh, 60's/70's/80's music/gaming/movies/television was so much better". Well no shit Sherlock, of course people will only remember what they like or was generally regarded as good/classic from those time periods. Especially when studios/publishes/cable networks continually keep them in circulation over the stuff that's largely faded from memory or was reviled by the Court of Public Opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

Cupcake?

*tips fedora*

[dethtoll]

And what was fedora-worthy about "cupcake?"

Seriously, are you ever going to answer that question?

[(Anonymous)]

jesus christ i am so done with this boring meme of yours go die already

[elaminator]

Agreed. There are good and bad films from every era.

[kallanda_lee]

This. I think people who dismiss older media by default DO miss out, but shit got made in every decade. Age does not necessarily make it good.

[sarillia]

Could you recommend some films from your favorite era? That tends to be my least favorite era for some reason but I'm wondering if there may be some hidden gems that I would like.

Also, I completely agree with your comment.

[dethtoll]

Alien
Apocalypse Now
Stalker
The Warriors
Escape from New York
Blade Runner
The Thing
Terminator
This is Spinal Tap

A few well-known picks and a few lesser-known ones, plus a bunch that I'm pretty sure everyone knows a quote or two from but has never actually seen. I should probably clarify and state that while a lot of my favourite movies ARE from this era, that's not why it's my favourite era, but rather that there was a lot of movies that largely followed along similar themes (early 80s sci-fi is so fucking great) despite many of them being garbage. Pretty much all the 80s-revival stuff we see these days, such as Blood Dragon, draws its visual influence from this particular era.

[nightscale]

Yup.

There was a lot of shit on TV when I was a kid and I kind of roll my eyes whenever I see the 'the 90's were the best for TV/movies' posts, because fuck no they weren't. There's always good and bad stuff in every era.

[sarillia]

I'm so sick of hearing from 90s kids about how great everything was from that decade. And I'm one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

"the 90s were the best for TV"

M*A*S*H
Taxi
The Cosby Show
Diff'rent Strokes
Kate & Allie
Highway to Heaven
Thirtysomething
Highlander
Star Trek: TNG
Original Battlestar Galactica (What? Shut up, it was good!)
Max Headroom

Yeah I could sit here and reel these off all night.....

[dethtoll]

That's why Drive is so great. It's a car chase film for like 5 minutes, then turns into a character study.

[(Anonymous)]

Those two examples are kind of my go-to explanations for why I prefer 70s film pacing to modern. That and movies like Duel (1971), which really wouldn't get made now, I think. 70s films in general are usually very distinct from other eras in both pacing and technology.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you can find this even today, you've just got to step out of the blockbuster arena.

[(Anonymous)]

*tips fedora*