Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Troy (A) on November 05, 2003 at 10:47:50

In Reply to: Is it getting worse posted by Prokofief on November 04, 2003 at 21:00:08:

You're just living through it so it seems worse.

There were just as many crappy movies made and distributed in the 70s and the 50s and the 30s and every other decade. Time has a way of scrapping those movies. The bad ones never make it onto TV, tape or DVD. They rot, forgotten on shelves in basements of the studios disappearing into the ether, forever. Ask any old movie fan and they'll tell you about the countless cheezy matinee westerns, unfunny comedies and turgid dramas they sat through when they were younger. Thousands of movies that no one that didn't live through the initial release has ever heard of. This was especially true during the "Studio System" era when dozens of movies came out every week because TV didn't yet exist.

In 20 years, do you honestly think anyone will be watching recent crap like "Tomcats" or "Bad Boys 2"? No one will remember that garbage.

Nope, it's the same ratio as it's always been.