Originally Posted by PrometheusFG
Of course, critics are some of the most sinful, greedy, corrupted people on earth. BUT nevertheless, it is in plain view and blatant that film is nowhere near as good as it once was.
The trend of film has changed dramtically. I'm just gonna say it now; movies suck these days! Compare the amount of great films from yesterday to the amount of great films today! The industry today has a damn hard time producing something as good as The Godfather, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Best Years of Our Lives, Psycho, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, or North By Northwest.
C'mon! It's right there for you. I can't think of more than around 5 movies from the 80s or 90s that can be compared to the ones I listed. Now We have to find excuses for great films and our standards have lowered drastically.
The films you have listed are nine of the most recognized, most heralded films ever made. It's a tall order, but I don't think film is as dead as you say it is. Consider the following films from the 80s and beyond:
Unforgiven, Raging Bull, Eyes Wide Shut, Blade Runner, Miller's Crossing, Goodfellas, The Player, The Thin Red Line, Short Cuts, Cidade De Deus, Mulholland Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, LA Confidential....
The above films weren't as groundbreaking as the films you listed, but the medium has been around much longer now, so breakthroughs in technique and style will be less frequent these days. The above films represent what I love about film at least as much as the classics you mentioned. They are as indelible as stuff like Rear Window, Vertigo, The Godfather, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and other classics I love.
That said... The 40-70s is my favorite era for film, so I sort of agree to a point that that era holds a lot of the best cinema ever created. Still, I love many films from the 80s, 90s and this decade, as well.... The medium is far from dead, and I am off to watch a film.
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