2 minutes ago, SteveK said:

In the UK now, for a family of 4 to go and see a film, the cost of tickets alone is £40-50. Parking is £4+, and food and drinks in the cinema are ludicrously priced. If you take you family to watch a film then have a Nandos afterwards it's going to be over £100.

what are you doing back there?

I used to hire 7 weekly videos for $7. But the internet killed the shops. Cant be bothered downloading movies anymore. They freeze sometimes or laptop crashes.

 

 

2 minutes ago, SteveK said:

In the UK now, for a family of 4 to go and see a film, the cost of tickets alone is £40-50. Parking is £4+, and food and drinks in the cinema are ludicrously priced. If you take you family to watch a film then have a Nandos afterwards it's going to be over £100.

Still relatively cheap though, the Thais pay half a day wage if they are not going on discount Wednesday. 

7 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

I think the production costs are so high now, the backers want a guaranteed return, so sequels, remakes and movies based on books or computer games so they have ready made fan base.

 

But Green Book managed to sneak through - and that was excellent.  Just hope they don't make Green Book 2 ..... or a prequel.

And why are the production costs to high? A big part are for sure all those special effects, CGI, and and and.

I think that is the case.Its the same with a lot of music these days.

They are running out of ideas and originality.

I was in quite a few pretty good movies,  and didn't always play the same old character in each one.   I was pretty cool in all of them though.  Interesting stories with likable characters, definitely a thing of the past.   

I might come out of retirement just to get the magnificent 7 back together .  Working on the storyline where we ride into thaivisa to save the forum.  Tarantino is interested   ????

 

I think all the good quality has moved to series nowadays hence less new good movies. Take Narcos Mexico, it is great stuff.

 

What gives me the most grief is this recent (last ten years or so) fad/perversion of re-making often great classic movies and completely changing the story and filling it with fake computer graphics, sometimes on the pretext that the old one was in B/W (not colour). A perfect example was 'Dunkirk,' the original of which I reckon was a UK classic, albeit in B/W. The new movie of the same name is second-rate and worse still, they completely changed the story line. That folks is precisely why after over fifteen years of visa-stamp-runs (Non-O) to Mae Sai, I now have one of the finest collections of classic movie DVD's around - all at 40 baht a shot ! So, I concur with the OP. 

Movies these days have to be politically correct and most have to have a "message" usually the same drivel that the media drives as essentially all owned by the same people!

All media now sets out to "influence" rather than entertain!

50 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

As huge fan of the TV show, I certainly thought the extension of Breaking Bad El Camino was good. 

And, just read another BB related movie is shooting soon.

I guess the movies can be synonymous to bargirls demise.  Difficult to find young, sexy with giving attitudes.

Things just change I guess.

Do u need to sexualize everything?

 

2 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Do u need to sexualize everything?

Is that a movie title? perfect for the "woke" era, make us dirty old men feel guilty! 

Feminism, anyone seen the 'new' ghostbusters? Thought not......

21 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

I think all the good quality has moved to series nowadays hence less new good movies. Take Narcos Mexico, it is great stuff.

 

Gangster stuff has been done to death.

Novels are better. More details and you use your imagination.

 

After 500 shooting scenes movies are just same same but worse.

 

 

I agree with the OP.

 

I have a couple of HDD full of old classics, movies and TV series, that would watch several times over, but can't recall a recent movie that I would want to save for viewing again.

 

2 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

but can't recall a recent movie that I would want to save for viewing again.

Agree, apart from the "Blues Brothers" off course ???? 

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Why are modern movies so bad?

Movies are made for the demographic that goes to the movies, The younger crowd, so they are made to reflect their preferences. Also after 100 years or so of making movies it becomes difficult to come up with new ideas. 

So Movies did not become bad, technically they are as good and better  as they have ever being, 

You my friend have simply become  older, very few movies are made for you. 

12 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

Gangster stuff has been done to death.

This is quality. 

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Have I become locked in some 'old man' nostalgic black hole (I've avoided the elderly white foreigner 70s rock music trap), or are movies made in the last 20 years mostly completely worthless.

There are plenty of good books to read! I have'nt watched a movie for years.

One of my good friends has recently retired from the industry. He worked since the mid-seventies as an AD. 
 

I asked him why the soundtracks will go from hardly audible chatting, to music blaring, so loud that one often needs to turn it down. He answered that the latest generation of movie goers lack any sort of attention span. They have to blast out sound to sdraw them back into the movie. 

Much of modern cinema technique is based on an audience without a lot of depth.

48 minutes ago, CGW said:

Is that a movie title? perfect for the "woke" era, make us dirty old men feel guilty! 

That's a good movie title ...... "No Country for Dirty Old Men"

1 hour ago, SteveK said:

In the UK now, for a family of 4 to go and see a film, the cost of tickets alone is £40-50. Parking is £4+, and food and drinks in the cinema are ludicrously priced. If you take you family to watch a film then have a Nandos afterwards it's going to be over £100.

 

Or you can download something, watch it in your living room with all the food and snacks and spend under £10.

If you don't take your family to the movies 4x in the UK, that's enough to buy a 60" TV.

The last "new" movie I enjoyed was probably the departed. 

 

Early 2000s had some good ones though. Departed, gangs of new York, training day, blood diamond, Ali, there will be blood, matchstick men, 

 

I enjoyed all these movies quite a bit but I definitely think we are in a low patch for movies, music and video games sadly. There's no creativity anymore. 

 

 

41 minutes ago, roo860 said:

This is quality. 

Some where really quite good though in my opinion. I loved the departed. Thought it was well acted, well written. 

 

But yes for every good ones there's 90 stinkers. 

57 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Movies are made for the demographic that goes to the movies, The younger crowd, so they are made to reflect their preferences. Also after 100 years or so of making movies it becomes difficult to come up with new ideas. 

So Movies did not become bad, technically they are as good and better  as they have ever being, 

You my friend have simply become  older, very few movies are made for you. 

Yes they did. They are bad. Too much special effects, no character development, too pc and no soul.

 

Older movies had soul. New ones are like pop music, just trashy formulated stuff.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

movies made in the last 20 years mostly completely worthless.

Try

Ex Machina

Carol

American Beauty

The Hairdressers Husband

A  Good  Year

1 minute ago, gunderhill said:

Try

Ex Machina

Carol

American Beauty

The Hairdressers Husband

A  Good  Year

Would point out American Beauty was 1999, that's 21 years ago, The Hairdressers Husband 1990, that's 31 years back.

Just now, BritManToo said:

Would point out American Beauty was 1999, that's 21 years ago.

Fussy  <deleted> arent we

It's a fair comment. Not so many really good dramas these days. Gangs of New York, There will be blood, No Country for Old Men, Hated Eight... All great movies. 

Anything mentioning Marvel or superheroes , utter  tripe