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something daft already!!

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Back when I was younger there seemed to be a lot of films you could watch over and over and still enjoy. Titles such as Alien, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Robocop to a name a few.

I can't think of any recent films which I would bother to do this with.

Has the quality of films dropped? Or have my standards raised? I see new indie type films released daily and they all look crap and score poorly in reviews. Now it is much easier to make a film than it was 30 years ago, it seems no-one is making anything any good any more. Is it going the way of the music industry?
 
I was thinking this just the other day, which is odd.

Same goes for music as well I feel. I was thinking it was only part quality but mainly age, as a kid/teenager you could watch or listen to most things over and over (attention span/boredom changes maybe?).

Even the things I would have watched over and over way back (Shaun of the Dead for example) I wouldn't now, but I still love them.
 
something daft already!! said:
Back when I was younger there seemed to be a lot of films you could watch over and over and still enjoy. Titles such as Alien, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Robocop to a name a few.

I can't think of any recent films which I would bother to do this with.

Has the quality of films dropped? Or have my standards raised? I see new indie type films released daily and they all look crap and score poorly in reviews. Now it is much easier to make a film than it was 30 years ago, it seems no-one is making anything any good any more. Is it going the way of the music industry?
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I know exactly where you're coming from, however plenty of films i've watched numerous times made after 2000. It's easy to romanticise the 80's as some time of all great movies but there was a lot of rubbish around, just as there is now. I do the same though, I flippantly make comments that movies aren't as good as they used to be. When I really stop and think, there are still excellent films being made.

I'd even chance that for every good 80's movie, you could match 1 for 1 a great post 2000 movie, I really think you'd run out of 80's movies first and would quickly be going into very niche cult titles.

Off the top of my head and just personal taste - End of Watch, Sicario, Cabin in the Woods, Mad Max, Interstellar, Wolf of Wall Street - all movies from the last decade i've watched at least 3 times, in case of Sicario, probably about 5 times.
 
Most people when they are young find music or films that they like and will watch over and over. When you get older this doesn't happen so much, people typically carry on listening to the same music as they did when they were younger. My Dad barely acknowledges any music that wasn't made before 1970.
There's a bit of a choice explosion now compared with back then. You can watch something now and hardly anyone you know will have seen it, so there isn't the social aspect of talking about a collective experience as much.
 
While its not quite the same as when you are younger I would say there is still plenty of stuff that's rewatchable. :)

Just wondering what film I have watched the most and its probably either Star Wars(original trilogy) or Back to the Future.

But then this century top of my head (tastes vary of course) - LOTR, some marvel stuff, dark knight trilogies, gladiator, anchorman(:p).

Still plenty of great music these days as well.
 
I did give Interstellar a repeat watch and got through the cringey bits with the robots and yes it's a good solid film and I agree the others you mention are good but have not stood up to a rewatch from me. Yes it could easily be my age lol
 
something daft already!! said:
I did give Interstellar a repeat watch and got through the cringey bits with the robots and yes it's a good solid film and I agree the others you mention are good but have not stood up to a rewatch from me. Yes it could easily be my age lol
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I doubt we're far off age wise, i'm 42, yourself?

As I mentioned, that's just my tastes - I didn't even go into the Tarantino movies i've repeatedly watched, TDK trilogy as @chroniclard mentioned and a small amount of the Marvel stuff.

Then there is of course guilty pleasure rewatching - Alien is my favourite movie of all time, as such I will happily rewatch any Alien movie every now and then, regardless of how bad they might be (AVP:Requiem anyone) - probably seen Prometheus 4 or 5 times, despite all it's faults...as it's an Alien movie.
 
I do rewatch a lot of TV shows and movies but it seems ridiculous these days because there's just so much new content being pumped out. I remember we used to watch The Mummy 1&2 so frequently it got to the point where between me and a few cousins we could recite most of the movies from memory.

That being said I rewatched all the marvel movies before endgame, same with game of thrones and the last season, used to rewatch all of BSG during the school holidays etc.
 
SixTwoSix said:
I really think you'd run out of 80's movies first
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well you'd hope so - the 80's was only a decade whereas post 2000 is presently sat at just over 2 decades :p

you're about 50% right on your film list
SixTwoSix said:
End of Watch
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yes
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Sicario
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yes
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Cabin in the Woods
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at a push
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Mad Max
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no
SixTwoSix said:
Interstellar
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i'm trying to forcibly forget that abortion of a film :p
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Wolf of Wall Street
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no
 
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Thekwango said:
well you'd hope so - the 80's was only a decade whereas post 2000 is presently sat at just over 2 decades :p
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Smart ass but yeah, point taken :D

However my personal favourites were all last decade so half right. ;)

As for your opinions on my choices, no problem, be boring if we all liked the same things, imagine a thread where we all just agreed with each other.
 
People who say this are always older and it happens to EVERYONE for the past 40 years, when you were young they were saying TV was better back in the 60's and 70's.

No, the quality hasn't dropped, it's call rose-tinted glasses. There is probably a medical term for it. I do know that music and arts that we consume up to our early 20's has the biggest difference and impact to us than as we get older. That is a known fact, unless you don't know.

Also, as you watch more movies, you have more reference point of comparison, if you only seen 10 movies at that time and one of them was Ironman then you will think that is the best superhero movie ever! When you have seen pretty much all of them, then the line blurs significantly.
 
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