[lynx97]

I cancelled my NetFlix subscription already, what, 7 years ago, for that reason... However, it is not just NetFlix. Most newish movies don't do anything for me. I prefer a movie from the 90s (or even earlier) over almost anything produced in the last 5 to 10 years. It is likely a generational thing, and a case of old man yelling at clouds. If studios think effects are more important then the actual story, well then, so be it.

[nottorp]

May be that our tolerance for samey bullshit reduces with age. After all, we’ve seen it all before. The movie industry isn’t that imaginative.

Also, survivor bias. You have to go out of the way to find mentions of crap 3rd rate old movies. We only remember the good ones.

[bombcar]

It’s fun to pick a year and do a deep dive on everything that was released to theaters (old newspapers with movie times are great for this) - so much crap you never heard about, unless it was phenomenally bad.

[nottorp]

Speaking of which, I recently ran into scans of some local magazines from the 30s.

There was a cinema magazine, and i ran into a 6 page obituary for this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney

Some silent movie star. Never heard of him before. Looks like he was worth 1/8 of the non-ad content 1 year after his death in 1931.