General Discussion

I'm middle-aged now (40s), and I hear a lot of my peers wax nostalgic about their growing up movies. Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller, Pretty in Pink, etc. Or action films from the era like Lethal Weapon or Rambo or whatever.

Those kinds of movies still exist just fine. The sensibility and style has simply changed. We don't have Arnold or Sylvester, but we've certainly got John Wick. Flow is probably one of the best animated films I've seen in the past 20 years - and animation has been pretty solid this whole time. You've got your blockbusters, etc. We're about to get another sword and sandals epic in the Odyssey (after an "only ok" Gladiator 2).

It depends what a "good" movie is to someone.

I try to go back and watch old movies when I can. Friends give me lists of "Classic, you have to see it!" Sometimes they're really good. Sometimes you can tell it worked at the time but wouldn't work now. Acting styles, writing, characterization, etc.

I think it's that cultural tastes are constantly changing, but ours do so only begrudgingly as we age. Which is fine. There's still a lot of new content to sink my teeth into and old content on streaming when there isn't.

I just saw the new Frankenstein last weekend. It was . . . fine.