Why Movies Suck Today ?

Dark Age, I think I know the problem you're having!

Hollywood! Writers living in California!

It's like watching a movie, where they treat every state as if it was California.

187 doesn't mean murder in other states!

Age of Consent is 16 in Rhode Island, not 18 like California! Hell it's 13 in New Mexico with the same sex.

Now, as someone from Cali, let me tell you, it's a place driven by being politically correct! And that political correctness is spreading. And it's really not as a previous poster said as a way to show basic kindness to people. But that's besides the point.

The point is, you're watching movies being made by people who feel they need to be politically correct, while being funded by people who want to do everything in their power to have their investment returned at a substantial profit.

So you're likely to hate almost everything you watch, when you have such views.

Personally, I say just go by a movie to movie basis. Also, you might enjoy Shoot Em Up! Check it out!

You are aware of what 'hollywood' is code for, right?

Heroes, Villains ♦ Reviews ♦ Retrospect

As I read through a pile of text citing various instances and generalized peeves that had no ill effect on my entertainment during those movies, I reminisce about a darker chapter in my life history where I was the same way. Growing up, I had a cynical phase where I hated most of the media I encountered. From movies to books to videogames to TV shows, I disliked them all. And it was often for very small reasons that would make me hate the whole movie. From thinking that the plot was too contrived, to thinking that the jaded plot wasn't inverted enough, to only remembering a few moments that would "ruin" the rest of the movie, as long as there was a reason to be discontent with the movie, I wouldn't like it.

For the movies I did like, they were often over trivial details, like not being a sequel or having a few funny or novel lines in them. But, it is a bit of an existential drug to be cynical about things. Dislikes are arguably a more distinguishing feature than alikes, so finding reasons to dislike things solidifies your position in the world. Discontent with the pedestrian in the mind of the cynic sets the cynic to be superior to the society that they are unhappy with. So then, they search out people who have the same "higher" standards to massage their ego.

Problem was, I was miserable, since I couldn't enjoy anything. I wasn't doing myself a service by hating movies, and I also wasn't doing anyone else a service, either. I would parade around the flaws of the movies that others like as if it were flaws to their very soul. Eventually I got sick of it and decided to to find reasons to like movies instead. Many years later, upon retrospection and introspection, I have come to learn the following:

• Disliking something does not make you superior to someone who liked unsaid something
• Your standards of approval are ultimately arbitrary.
• Therefore, things like simplicity and complexity don't equal better.
• Being unhappy with things generally doesn't pay out in the long run.
• "The best way to fight the cynicism of unreasonable standards is to get stupid about things."

Why Movies suck today?

In my view it's all to do with censorship, if I were to put it into computer terms and base it on my old ZX Spectrum games, Jet set willy and Leisure Suit Larry would have a 18 cert nowadays with my old tape deck to play them having a parental control button.

Censorship ruins a lot of films as directors have to cater to masses to recoup the monies required for top actors/actresses, CGI etc.

I would go as far to say that when people have a DVD collection most of their coverted movies are from a time when censorship was a null, mainly early 80's.

Even Horror movies of today, try to bring their certificate rating down to a 15 in order to have a wider scope of recoup.

So if director's were allowed to make movies for love instead of trying to soak up the Box office I think we would get a better class of film, and we would be able to work out a genre of a film without thinking was Terminator Salvation a Horror/Action/Romance or Sci-fi movie or all 4.

All 4 dosen't work for me I like 1 genre to a film, 2 at most.

In the past, not every movie to come out of Hollywood was a gem, either. Turns out, movies have always, overall, "sucked" like they do now. lol @ Plan 9 From Outer Space. Stories have been rehashed all through out history, actually. Books, plays, bards telling stories they've heard from other bards, etc. Just how it goes. Things really aren't sucking any worse now than they have in the past. It's just this is the present. We get to see all the suck first hand and in our faces.

how dare they get someone from another country to help!