re: Critically Acclaimed Movies That You Hate

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Refreshing honesty. May I ask why?

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I think that older movies too often get put on a pedestal and essentially given a pass when you start to compare and rank all time movies. For a lot of reviewers, the thought that 21st century movies can rival something done in the 50s-60s isn't even up for discussion. I get that technology and movies in general were still in the infant stage up til about 10 years ago but that doesn't mean these early movies cannot be critiqued and graded for what they were (which IMO just isn't very good in a lot of cases).

It is the "new is bad, old is good" mentality that you see everywhere, Lebron could never be as good as MJ, etc etc. At some point we as a society need to just accept that what we are doing now in the movie industry and really in general is just so far more advanced and better than what we were doing 50 years ago.

And of course this will bring in the "old is better" crew to defend their movies