1999 was a good year too.
Fight Club
The Matrix
Sixth Sense
10 Things I Hate About You
The Mummy
Magnolia
Eyes Wide Shut
Being John Malkovich
Dogma
The Iron Giant
I swear I used to own Dogma on DVD. Apparently you can’t beg borrow or steal a copy anywhere nowadays. It’s one I’d love to watch again, too.
Pretty sure if I went back and watched all those and barbie I’d probably enjoy Barbie more.
Actually, if you would go and watch the barbie movie instead of bitching about it you would find a very good Oscar worthy movie which humorously points out several flaws in our current society hiding in plain sight.
And truly, what or who is bigger then oppenheimer in modern history? The man literally changed the world and is more or less the reason behind the longest period of peace in the west and beyond. It turned out that fear, deterrence, is the only thing that keeps war away.
They got that message loud and clear in Iran and Northern Korea. Especially after what happened in Libya and Syria.
Anyway, politic bullshit aside so far 2023 is, I think, a very good year for cinema.
Next to that I’ve seen this meme repeat itself yearly over the last five years. It’s getting tiresome. It’s time to think up a new one.
Not to derail your point, but I am 100% positive that the meme isn’t saying Barbie is a bad movie at all. This meme isn’t near as deep as you’re giving it credit for.
It’s making the observation that Hollywood has eroded its creative foundation to the point that there have only been two movies that anyone is talking about this year. Whereas in years past there would be dozens.
I have certainly noticed that over the last few years I care less and less about yet another Marvel movie or remake of an awesome 80s or 90s movie. It’s extremely obvious why masterful productions like Barbie and Oppenheimer stand out above everything else this year. These would have been great movies in the 90s too, but they would have actually been competing against substantially more films that are worth talking about.
Only Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers stood the test of time - the rest is just meh.
Are you really trying to say The Shawshank Redemption and Forest Gump are just “meh”?
The Shawshank Redemption’s political subtext just seems so utterly naive today - and Forest Gump’s is downright alt-historical.
Speed is just cop-prop, Interview With A Vampire glorifies yet another Antebellum South slave owner, The Crow is just right-wing revenge fantasy in goth clothing, and Ace Ventura’s gross transphobia is so fucking ick it might just as well be used as a TERF training documentary.
Oh, and Maverick just wasn’t that good to start off with.
Sooo… “meh” is still generous, methinks.
Ah yes, nostalgic gatekeeping bullshit. Kindly go fuck yourself
