Why Modern Movies Suck

[George K]

Andrew Klavan on today's movies.

He makes an interesting point - the art form is aging out. Every art from has an early peak, and at that peak, popularity and art are one and the same. For film, according to Klavan, that was in 1939, when the most popular films were also the best films. He claims the same can be said of Shakespeare - he was popular and he was really really good.

And then, film diverged into two things: 1) Movies that made money - the action-hero films and 2) Movies that no one wanted to see but were very good.

Link to video

And yeah, he gets into "wokeness."

[89th]

I think I’ve mentioned before how there was a good podcast interview about this with the (quitting) NY Times film critic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/podcasts/the-daily/ao-scott-film-critic-american-cinema-movies.html