Has cinema reached its peak?

i don't know. i usually like 2-3 movies a year. most movies i watch i find to be abysmal, but maybe that's just me being an old crusty cynic. movies do seem to be more forgettable though. it's mostly a continuous slop dispenser.
 
In the context you are referring to, absolutely yes. I don't think it is because quality has dropped, but actually the opposite, quality has become so widely available it is now kind of a commodity.

In the past there was a huge difference in many ways between what could be done for theatrical release versus TV that don't exist anymore. With the shift of TV series from episodal to sequential story based, TV now delivers a much deeper level of story telling than movies. For a movie you have to condense the full story down to 2 hours, while TV series are now essentially 6-8 hour movies.

With that said, I completely agree it doesn't hit the same as those iconic films in the collage you posted. The cinematic experience that made those movies iconic is likely gone forever. No matter how good a movie Netlfix makes, it is just a movie with no experience attached to it. Once it is over you just start scrolling through for the next one.
 
Imo cinema peaked in the 2000s, with No Country For Old Men, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Hollywood is out of ideas for the most part, and anything with money behind it is going to be a cgi shi+show.

The indy folks are going to have to step their game way up and give us this century's Reservoir Dogs. The fact that that last 28 movie (which I haven't seen yet) was shot on a phone intrigues me to no end.

Get Out, and most recently Weapons, are some rare examples of fresh ideas that are very well executed.
 
Starman said:
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How it's go... actually I don't think I need to say more.
 
So many hyped movies nowadays fail to live up to expectations for me. I guess when you're older you tend to be bias towards older movies you grew up with. Can't beat 70s 80s early 90s imo.

Last TV show I really liked was Suits although lost interest when Mike Ross left.
 
The woke remakes with LGBT actors to tick boxes / white original characters played by non white actors/actresses can FO.
 
It reached its peak a qhile ago now its on a decline.
 
SmoothPies said:
I'd add the 2000's in there as well as part of the golden era.

Anything years past 2010 have 1-2 good movies tops

On the flip side... compare Game of Thrones to any show in the 90's and there is no comparison. Shows have gone way up.
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The 2000s has epic comedies like the 40 year old virgin and superbad.

But comedy has taken a nosedive all over because folks are so afraid at offending people
 
Hellowhosthat said:
I think these things can go in cycles and that movies can be very reactionary to what's going on socially. Things are getting spicy socially so that could lead to some good movies. Historically I think comfortable times tends to equal less pissed off people making good movies or writing the material you need to make great movies.

Like sure Vietnam sucked but we sure got some fucking great movies out of it.
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They dropped the ball with post 911 war movies

Honestly, TV show quality rose as the 2000's wore on and movies declined
 
Halifax said:
The 2000s has epic comedies like the 40 year old virgin and superbad.

But comedy has taken a nosedive all over because folks are so afraid at offending people
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Yeah Comedy seems done as a genre, can't think of the last good one
 
Cinema is rife (probably not the right word) for a revival in some sense. Lower ticket prices and people will return in droves. Stop with the woke messaging nonsense and make good films and people will pay. Stop remaking everything and peoples opinions will change, imo
 
Starman said:
They had gone way up. TV is shit now. Game of Thrones went down as the biggest letdown in television history. Series now are just serialized garbage where nothing happens for 7 and a half episodes, and then everyone dies in some weak attempt to wring out the viewer emotionally, but it doesn't matter because nobody cared about those characters to begin with.

TV now is just content. What was the last truly great show that came out? Compare any of the content being pumped out now (Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Knight Rider, Quantum Leap, the Twilight Zone, MacGyver, Walker: Texas Ranger, Roseanne, Lost in Space, Magnum P.I., the Equalizer, Matlock) to their original counterparts and they ALL come out shit.

Hell, compare House of the Dragon to Game of Thrones. It's just fucking shit. TV sucks now. Anyone who thinks it's good is just a retard zoomer or a braindead zombie who mindlessly eats shit like a pig.
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It’s because everything now is made with the goal of increasing engagement. That’s the metric they use to determine success: how many people kept the stream on through the whole thing and stayed logged into the service after.

And so shitty movies that people put on as background noise while they dick around in their phones are what get the highest engagement rating. So they think “Wow, we need to make Extraction 2 because the first one had such high engagement metrics!”
 
Cinema has reached it's rock bottom or it's trench. I haven't even paid to see a movie in a theater this entire year I used to go to the theater at least once or twice a month. The terrifier series is the only good movie making I have seen in years.
 
Starman said:
They had gone way up. TV is shit now. Game of Thrones went down as the biggest letdown in television history. Series now are just serialized garbage where nothing happens for 7 and a half episodes, and then everyone dies in some weak attempt to wring out the viewer emotionally, but it doesn't matter because nobody cared about those characters to begin with.

TV now is just content. What was the last truly great show that came out? Compare any of the content being pumped out now (Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Knight Rider, Quantum Leap, the Twilight Zone, MacGyver, Walker: Texas Ranger, Roseanne, Lost in Space, Magnum P.I., the Equalizer, Matlock) to their original counterparts and they ALL come out shit.

Hell, compare House of the Dragon to Game of Thrones. It's just fucking shit. TV sucks now. Anyone who thinks it's good is just a retard zoomer or a braindead zombie who mindlessly eats shit like a pig.
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Pigs eat shit?
 
Jesus X said:
Cinema has reached it's rock bottom or it's trench. I haven't even paid to see a movie in a theater this entire year I used to go to the theater at least once or twice a month. The terrifier series is the only good movie making I have seen in years.
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SmoothPies said:
Yeah Comedy seems done as a genre, can't think of the last good one
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Naked gun, the new one, had me laughing my ass off.

But that's a very specific type of comedy.

Edgelord comedy like superbad are big nono's now because of hyper progressives backlash.

Shit, these idiots even complain about the transvestite prostitute scene in 40 year old virgin and say American pie is rape culture and toxic lol
 
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