Why Modern Movies Suck - The Myth Of The "Modern Audience"

Hollywood:- remakes old movie for cash grab by saying its for the "modern audience" The audience:- Rewatches the original.

Older movies wanted to captivate audiences, tell stories, and build a legacy full of passion and love. Something that’s foreign to the modern movie making industry

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”

As a Colombian, I don’t understand the need to cast Rachel Zegler as Snow White, I don’t want “diversity” just because, I want an accurate and entertaining film that doesn’t race swap a classic character.

Hearing Disney say the Hercules remake "will be modern musical inspired by TikTok" was genuinely the scariest thing I've ever read.

"Modern audience" "Diverse casting" and "subverting expectations" are 3 movie killers.

As someone who was a part of the “modern audience” as a teen, a lot of it is emotional immaturity and the almost cultish approach to “woke” culture. Being told by the internet that if you don’t hit the diverse cast checkboxes, or write minorities with flaws, or include any amount of offensive humor, you’re a shit writer, really got into my head as an emotionally immature teen and caused a lot of unwarranted guilt. My dad showing me The Drinker kickstarted my escape from that mindset, and I’m looking forward to becoming a good writer instead of a “woke” one lol

I once saw a saying that these remakes were "ruining my childhood". No they are not. My childhood was great I got to see these shows and movies as they were originally made. They are ruining the childhood of the kids today with these terrible remakes and censoring of the past.

I just don't understand why Hollywood, TV and Cinema don't realize that Twitter does not speak for the masses

Imagine replacing characters because of the color of their skin and it not being considered racist.

damn, i'm so relieved we could at least have the Lord of the Rings right before the collective madness really set feet in our pop culture.

As a kid in the 70's, growing up in sunny Southern California, I was a big fan of Japanese action and animation tv programs. These certainly didn't "reflect the world I lived in," I liked them because they didn't reflect the world I lived in. All the characters were Japanese, all followed Japanese norms, all the scenes were Japan-centric, all were as foreign to me as aliens from Mars, but I loved these shows. Fast-forward many years, and I find myself living in Japan, and finding Japanese people who are rabid fans of old American westerns. The most popular movie ever screened in Japan was "One-eyed Jacks," a Marlon Brando western. No Japanese could relate to any part of that entire movie, yet that was why they loved it so much.

I recently saw a TikTok video where a guy said The Breakfast Club has not aged well because of “the crotch shot”. That’s right, a film about five students that come together as strangers and leave as friends after opening up to each other about suicide, depression, peer pressure, parental neglect and abuse and directed by one of the greatest filmmakers of the 80’s if not all time has not aged well because of a three second panty shot.

“We want the film to reflect the world we live in.” Depicts tiny women beating up big men

Caught this one late! Excellent and well said. As a female I find it so hard to think nower days of female protagonists that are strong without it be blatantly being shoehorned into their character. The modern presentation of females, especially with Disney properties makes me continuously roll my eyes.

If Modern audiences actually existed these shows, movies, and games wouldn’t all be failing.

"Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue." - Washington Irving

My teenage daughter told me a few weeks ago that she didn't really like movies and didn't understand why people care so much about them. In response we have spent the last few weekends watching some of my favorites; Gattaca, Vanilla Sky, Shawshank Redemption, The Grren Mile, Apollo 13, Interview with the Vampire, Dances with Wolves, Planet of the Apes (1968), Sweeney Todd, etc and now she concedes that she actually just doesn't like modern movies. She said to me that she just hates all movies made after 2010... lmao...

The thing about successful movies is that they capture timeless ideas and communicate them to a new audience.

Their modern audience is Twitter not 99% of the rest of the world. I actually saw a tweet from a writer who reminded his fellow creatives that twitter is a fraction of your audience