[altern8]

This is awesome.

What's sad to me is that we have all this awesome technology, but movies are worse than ever.

I usually watch movies from decades ago just to find something decent and it's amazing how with goofy-looking puppets the storytelling was 1000 times better.

This is probably an unrelated rant, sorry

[phoghed]

Survivorship bias, possible that you just aren’t watching all the shitty ones that nobody remembers.

[altern8]

That's exactly the ones I like! On Saturdays I watch cheesy horror movies from the 80s.

But with my GF I watch whatever is rated >= 8 on Imdb and the 8s from years ago are ALWAYS much, much better than the recent ones.

Maybe I just don't like the style. All the over explaining, etc.

[vanviegen]

I think most movies drop a bit in IMDb score over their first few years. That might (partly) explain it. Or you just prefer older movies . :-)

[altern8]

Interesting! I didn't know that. Could be both, too :-)

[stronglikedan]

I regularly stream movies from Screambox, FilmRise and Alter as background music while I work from home. I love cheesy horror, but they're just bad enough to keep me company without distracting me

[kranke155]

Still survivorship bias. Those movies are curated! Well curated if you like them I might add.

[throwthrowuknow]

OP replied but I’m chipping in too, I’ve also been watching a lot of older movies specifically the more B list and C list which weren’t successful cult classics and they’re still better than anything new. The low production and low talent C list ones are still cheesy and the performances don’t land anywhere near as well as they could but they feel more genuine and creative than what passes for a movie these days.

[acdanger]

time is the great filter

[altern8]

What's a good recent movie I could watch? Today is Friday

[Rebelgecko]

Odyssey is supposed to be pretty good. Main complaint I've seen is that it's not as horny as the source material.

[altern8]

Thank you! I'll take a look

[thomastjeffery]

Do you like horror? That's the only genre where risky projects are getting consistent funding. Obsession and Backrooms are both really good.

[phoghed]

Was going to pull out my default recommendation of Oldboy but then I realized it’s 23 years old, which just aged me greatly

[thomastjeffery]

No Other Choice (by the same director) is incredible, and even relevant to this post.

[altern8]

Welcome to the club! :-)

[mejutoco]

The sheep detectives is pretty good

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32565993/

[altern8]

Thanks! I'll take a look

[doctorpangloss]

would you refuse to invest in BFL because Robin Rombach doesn't know anything about making movies?

sora is done. can you find me one person brave enough to say, "Bill Peebles, a nice guy, doesn't know anything about making movies?" this isn't just a VC problem, this is why it is called the Hollywood No, but that said: maybe the hollywood no is the problem? in video games it has been called Toxic Positivity. are you getting it now?