Post by Prime etc. on Jan 10, 2020 22:34:46 GMT
It feels like the 90s and beyond merge together. Like a time compression. Partly due to media centralization I suspect. Tight filter on what can be seen and done, so not much room for innovation and trends. Ironically as liberalization increases, there's a sense of conservative design--tight control on imagination and content.
I see the 80s as a long time ago, but 90s to 2000s, it doesn't feel like much happened in those decades that marked the time oddly enough. 10 years ago seems a lot shorter than how I would have assessed "10 years ago" in 2010 or 2000.
Movie-wise, and this is obvious by people's lists, there is hardly anything that counts as old fashioned exploitation or crowdpleasing now--it's all corporation-designed product--whether it is tentpole or Oscar season or even foreign film. Even horror is now a corporate commodity. It used to be the most grass-roots film genre.
In 1990 no one in the West would be thinking about a Korean-made film as the best film of the year-and if they did, it was likely to be an exploitation film--not a message film about class divide. More often than not when a film is judged these days it is judged primarily on the message.
The Joker "an important film about mental illness."
Where do I line up?
I see the 80s as a long time ago, but 90s to 2000s, it doesn't feel like much happened in those decades that marked the time oddly enough. 10 years ago seems a lot shorter than how I would have assessed "10 years ago" in 2010 or 2000.
Movie-wise, and this is obvious by people's lists, there is hardly anything that counts as old fashioned exploitation or crowdpleasing now--it's all corporation-designed product--whether it is tentpole or Oscar season or even foreign film. Even horror is now a corporate commodity. It used to be the most grass-roots film genre.
In 1990 no one in the West would be thinking about a Korean-made film as the best film of the year-and if they did, it was likely to be an exploitation film--not a message film about class divide. More often than not when a film is judged these days it is judged primarily on the message.
The Joker "an important film about mental illness."
Where do I line up?