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Re: "Today's movies are not built to last."

This was a question on the Stereophile Ultimate Web Site recently: Are movies of years gone past better than those of today? I suppose that filmgoers of the 1940's thought the same thing of films released in the 1950's, and filmgoers of the 1950's thought that of the 1960'2, etc.

I believe that there were many garbage films made in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. History has simply weeded those bad films from cable. We tend to think that everyone film was The WIzard of Oz and Casablanca. Why don't they make those films anymore? Because they already did. But while those films endure, the garbage films did not. And guess what? We younger types never know they existed.

Contrast that with the "modern times." We know about the garbage films because we see them at the cinema, on television, on cable, and in video stores. In fifty years, when most of us are either dead or senile, no one will remember "Dude, Where is My Car?" Rather, films like Braveheart, Mystic River (excellent), Pulp Fiction (regardless of taste, certainly the most influential film of the last twenty years), and Master and Commander will be remembered as representative of this period of film history. And then what? At that time, people will be wondering why they do not make Braveheart, et al.

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