re: 1989 was objectively better at the cinema.

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1989

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Those are some horrible movies in that graphic

Name one.


*There may be movies YOU don't like, but objectively, they all had their own audience.

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K, you actually are the retard many believed.

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I’m retarded because you don’t know how the Academy works?

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None, remember going to the theater and seeing it when I was young. Been a fan of his ever since.

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So, you're saying you formed your OWN opinion, decades ago, well before YouTube even existed?

Inconceivable!!



Such concepts are completely foreign to latter millennials and Zoomers, it seems.

Yeah, Sean Connery as Indiana Jones' dad was absolute cinematic trash.




(There are only 3 Indiana Jones movies.)

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30-40 years from now, who'll remember the movies we're getting now?

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Impossible to say, especially as the late 80s were full of existential dread about the future of movies as superheroes and action sequels dominated the box office. The 80s were capped with a piece of middlebrow dogshite winning best picture (Driving Miss Daisy). The future looked like dumb blockbusters making money and preachy, dumb dramas winning awards. Yet, people clearly feel nostalgia for that era.

There's probably a 14 year-old who just had his mind blown by 28 years later this weekend, and who will be calling it the most important horror film of the century on a message board in 2050. That same kid will likely think of the big dumb marvel films of the past 10 years as formative, important movies, and will have no idea about all the DEI machinations idiots yelled about as they were being made.

That kid might know earlier films, and maybe have seen them. Just like I'm sure you are generally aware of the 1950s classics that make the 80s movies in your graphic look like an idiot child's favorites, but those films weren't part of your (or anyone here's) formative, taste-making years.

The golden age of cinema came and went. You can debate which era was best but I don't think anybody on the planet thinks Hollywood's best days are now and in the future.

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Why would Hollywood want to out themselves?

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Was your thought process with this reply just "How can I very actively avoid engaging with any actual point in the post, but still type words? Because I must always type words."?

Because I posted about how young people now will think in the future about movies coming out now. Not about the definition of DEI.

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You'd be calling lethal weapon a DEI movie for having Glover as the lead.

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They would, especially if they knew that that the director assumed that the role was written as a white cop. The casting director suggested Glover for the role, and Richard Donner objected that it was a white character. When the casting director pointed out that there was nothing in the script that specifically said that the character was white, Donner did some introspection and admitted that his default assumption was that all characters were white unless the script said otherwise.