[4ggr0]

good point i guess, time allows for the good stuff to be remembered and stay relevant.

kind of how some movies like The Big Lebowski were considered flops but nowadays are cherished cult classics.

[bombcar]

MST3K is definitive proof that "not all the old movies were good" - there were some stinkers, and they only picked out the ones that were "so bad they're good" - there's much worse.

Most movies are decently budgeted and so at least meet some minimum bar for quality - so cult classics can arise time and time again. There are movies in theaters right now that will be the cult classics of the 2050s.