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Walk on Water
03-08-2021, 07:31 AM
It can't just be nostalgia. So many things entertainment wise are worse now. The flavor is different now. Remember basketball back in the 90s? The NBA on NBC theme song? NBA Jam? Every team had stars. You had exciting athletes such as Allen Iverson or Shaq. The league had heart. It had character. Now you just got big guys shooting 3s.

Not just basketball. Music. Music was good in every single era. But modern music is no good. You used to be able to just hear the start of a song and go crazy. That's what I'm doing right now on Youtube. Listening to old songs. You go nuts as soon as you hear them, the very first second. Even the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls were catchy. I'm serious. Now? I can't even name very many artists. Justin Bieber ain't that interesting to me. I can't even name any of his songs.

Movies. Look at the first 2 Terminators compared to the rest of them. The difference is night and day. We used to have some pretty bad ass movies like The Matrix and Terminator. Rocky was a good movie. Godfather. Now, we don't have very many good films. The majority of them are remakes because they can't think of anything else good to make. We have a huge quantity of shows, but the majority of them are horrible and boring. Breaking Bad was great. But that was like a decade ago.

I mean seriously. What happened? The only thing that got more interesting was politics. But the problem is that it affected the whole world and divided everyone. It wasn't exactly fun. It's affecting all of us. Things are bad on both sides. Mr Potato head is now genderless. Amazon worried they look like Hitler. What happened to the world? Nothing I remember about it is the same anymore.

SATAN
03-08-2021, 09:04 AM
Technology and the expansion of corporate interests changed many things and always has. I'm sure most generations felt the same things you express about their own era. I know you're trolling but the world actually does feel like a different place since I was younger. Good in certain ways but much worse in others. It's gonna leak into entertainment and loop back. Greed seems to be completely taking out or swallowing everything in its path wielded by certain entities. Share holders who themselves are getting screwed are more important than workers trying to put food on the table to a certain mind set. Can't help wonder where it's going. Especially when you look at the erosion of civil liberties through tech and the lowering expectations of being able to live a life similar to our parents going forward. Who knows where it's going. Also, politics isn't more interesting now at all. It's ****ing disgraceful.

The music you mentioned was ****ing terrible btw imo. All the new super hero movies for adults is extremely weird but some good stuff is still going under the radar. The majority of shows back in the day were HORRIBLE. No difference.

No doubt you know this though.

Patrick Chewing
03-08-2021, 11:37 AM
Political Correctness has ruined our way of life.


The future of movies is Trans Rainbow Unicorn Porn.

hateraid
03-08-2021, 11:50 AM
OP are you Filipino?

BigKobeFan
03-08-2021, 11:59 AM
Have you watched the show married with children. Shit is still funny as of today. Why no reruns? You guessed it

rufuspaul
03-08-2021, 12:36 PM
You glorify the past when the future dries up.

SouBeachTalents
03-08-2021, 04:13 PM
Literally every generation believes the era they grew up in was when things were best :lol Believe me 20 years from now they'll be someone nearing 30 asking why movies & music aren't as good as they were in 2020

FultzNationRISE
03-08-2021, 04:35 PM
Literally every generation believes the era they grew up in was when things were best :lol Believe me 20 years from now they'll be someone nearing 30 asking why movies & music aren't as good as they were in 2020


This is definitely true to an extent, altho the rise of the internet greatly exacerbated the emphasis of quantity over quality, as well as a diminished the acceptance of anything ‘controversial’.

Plenty of people love music that came generations before they were born. Few people who arent growing up with modern entertainment actually like it. It is unequivocally worse in quality (exceptions exist as always).

Walk on Water
03-08-2021, 10:32 PM
Literally every generation believes the era they grew up in was when things were best :lol Believe me 20 years from now they'll be someone nearing 30 asking why movies & music aren't as good as they were in 2020


But see I can respect earlier gens, even if they weren’t my time. I cannot respect music today and it’s been this way for about 15 years. Music changed. There’s no more human element.

Walk on Water
03-08-2021, 10:39 PM
Have you watched the show married with children. Shit is still funny as of today. Why no reruns? You guessed it


Why isn’t there?

Axe
03-08-2021, 10:54 PM
Do you think that social media was already prominent back then?

Walk on Water
03-09-2021, 05:20 AM
Do you think that social media was already prominent back then?



Social media used to be America Online lol and MySpace. It's gotten out of control.

iamgine
03-09-2021, 08:00 AM
Why did things in Entertainment used to be so much better than now?

Because it's your own opinion. In reality every era has their own good and bad.