{"id":19643,"date":"2024-06-13T15:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/?post_type=article&#038;p=19643"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:14:35","slug":"from-masterpieces-to-misses","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/article\/from-masterpieces-to-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"From Masterpieces To Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Modern Movies Miss The Mark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">C. Z. C. Zhu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WATCHED A MOVIE IN A CINEMA, AND WERE TRULY SPEECHLESS? <\/strong>&nbsp;Now, I\u2019m not talking about some cheap laughs you got from a new comedy, or a skip of the heartbeat from a new horror movie. I\u2019m talking about the Goodfellas, the Shawshank Redemptions, and the Inceptions of the world. So why is it that there hasn\u2019t been a quality movie in ages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might argue that movies like Oppenheimer and Barbie, are \u2018Modern Day Masterpieces&#8217;, but let&#8217;s be honest with ourselves. I tried to like Oppenheimer, but at times, it was just boring. This could be because I don\u2019t know all the politics behind the movie, but I still stand firm in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of rapid technological advancement, you\u2019d expect the movies coming out to be better than those made 10 to 30 years ago. But they just aren\u2019t. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps we are all just being nostalgic about the old movies, and cynical about the new. Maybe the recent movies aren\u2019t so bad. Maybe it just takes time for modern movies to marinate. I\u2019m sure some of the classic movies we see now were not instant hits at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/06\/image.png 656w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/06\/image-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/06\/image-203x150.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Google<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t 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\u2019t much that any of us, as high school students, can do to fix Hollywood\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. Z. C. Zhu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[10],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19643","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-student-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/19643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=19643"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=19643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}