From Masterpieces To Misses

Why Modern Movies Miss The Mark

C. Z. C. Zhu

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WATCHED A MOVIE IN A CINEMA, AND WERE TRULY SPEECHLESS?  Now, I’m not talking about some cheap laughs you got from a new comedy, or a skip of the heartbeat from a new horror movie. I’m talking about the Goodfellas, the Shawshank Redemptions, and the Inceptions of the world. So why is it that there hasn’t been a quality movie in ages?

You might argue that movies like Oppenheimer and Barbie, are ‘Modern Day Masterpieces’, but let’s be honest with ourselves. I tried to like Oppenheimer, but at times, it was just boring. This could be because I don’t know all the politics behind the movie, but I still stand firm in my opinion.

After years of rapid technological advancement, you’d expect the movies coming out to be better than those made 10 to 30 years ago. But they just aren’t. The movie crisis is not contingent on the technology, but rather the plot. Somehow. movies made 15 years ago have cinematics that exceed any modern day movies, even with the improvement of CGI and other effects. Look at any Christopher Nolan movie and compare it to any modern movie.

Perhaps we are all just being nostalgic about the old movies, and cynical about the new. Maybe the recent movies aren’t so bad. Maybe it just takes time for modern movies to marinate. I’m sure some of the classic movies we see now were not instant hits at first.

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Don’t get me wrong, there are still some good modern franchises, such as Marvel. But I think we all know there was a fall-off after Endgame, where all of our childhood favourite heroes never turned up in another movie. Spiderman is still a W though. At the end of the day, there isn’t much that any of us, as high school students, can do to fix Hollywood’s movie crisis. Unless one of you reading this becomes the next Martin Scorcese. In the slightest chance that one of the people reading this becomes a Movie Director in Hollywood, on behalf of the audience, please bring back the spark that died with modern movies.