ShogunRua wrote:I agree that we live in exciting times and you might be correct with regards to music. In fact, we're probably at the apex of quite a number of other forms of entertainment. But unless you're solely looking at resolution, pixel count, and special effects, movies have certainly been far better.
By the way! When talking about music, popular music nowadays is shittier than ever. I would gladly take the popular music of the 70s over what's trendy nowadays.
Not just music! I would say that popular movies, TV, and also video games are all worse than they've ever been. It's because profits are maximized in all forms of media by appealing to the lowest common denominator. That's not opinion. It's fact. It's also sadly to the detriment of the serious fan. Much like when parents pull their kids out of public and into private schools, the rise of indie film, music, etc... has quickened the drop off in quality because now the critical fan has a viable alternative and can be content existing entirely outside of the mainstream. Younger film buffs can grow up in complete bliss never realizing not ALL blockbusters sucked. Those of us old enough to remember the 70s (and parts of the 80s and 90s) remember that for every horrible sequel, at least there was usually a really good original that started it all... I'm hoping were in a lull period right now and perhaps in another decade or so, it will be so inexpensive to produce special effects that indie directors can obviate the entire studio process and guys like Christopher Nolan and Shane Carruth can make movies like Batman Begins (and hopefully Interstellar) with modest budgets. It may seem far fetched now but eventually special effects will reach a limit (you can't make an explosion look more real than real life) and CGI will be dirt cheap for all...