They Just Don't Make Movies "Like" That Anymore.

They make the same films.

I know this topic is something old people do. Here's how it is done in music:

share this if you want

the world to know you are old 

and washed up.

Cause comparing Freddie Mercury to Justin Bieber is fair. How about comparing Bieber to some of Mercury's contemporaries? Oh yeah, we've all had 40 years to forget about Ram Jam and Lulu. Remember that in 1968 Lulu and the Monkees both outsold the Beatles. Let that sink in.

But with movies I feel it is different. They ARE making the exact same movies. I remember going to Batman in 1989 as a very young boy. Guess what I go to now? Now granted the new films were great (well the first two anyway) but it is still Batman.

Star Trek might be my favourite example. The new Abrams film might be the worst film I have ever seen. Silly plot, silly depictions of classic characters and remember, if you stick an upper class Englishman in a big coat and make him temperamental you have a villain every time. Ricardo Montalban was scary, that Khan was not a guy you wanted to fuck with. This new one seems like the guy who calls his lawyers over a parking ticket. Also, why is a pasty white guy in his 20's playing an Indian warlord who is supposed to be in his 40's? Ricardo Montalban was 46 when he played Khan in 1966 and 62 in 1982 when they made the film. Isn't that like having Chris Brown play Hitler?

One of these Khan's is going to 

kill Kirk after he drops his niece off at

soccer practice and gets a latte. 

The Hobbit is another great example. Lord of the Rings (a classic set of films, the first one came out when I was still in High School). Lets take Frodo light and stick him with Dwarves that belong in Snow White rather than the Hobbit novel. 

Superman, Predator, Alien, Terminator, Die Hard, XMen. I watched them in High School and most of them on VHS. Classic films. We don't need 12 sequels. Wolverine is played out. Terminator's seem ineffective at killing anything at this point. Alien is after sexy college co-eds. Right now I am waiting for the Godfather remake starring Charlie Sheen and a rapper.

I don't complain that movies aren't what they used to be, I complain that they are exactly what they used to be, but dumbed down for the NASCAR crowd (Star Trek) or with pointless changes to try and keep in fresh (John Connor is a mutant?!?!). Most of my favourite movies are a few years old now (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Bridge on the River Kwai) but they are solid and original films. I like Batman, but there is only so many times and ways you can tell that same story.