November 29, 2009 - 2:44 am
I am. Sure there are some great old movies and music but I’m getting sick of the way they are always being regarded over anything that’s new. They may have influenced the way things are done but it’s no reason to keep putting them up on a pedestal and praising to the high heavens over and over again. By the time it’s the year 3000 when film making and music is vastly different should ‘Citizen Kane’ still be praised and called the greatest movie ever made? I think not. I’m also sick of all this film snobbery where films these days are criticized and always being said to just be lots of special effects and explosions and then this elitist attitude that every film should be in Black and White, contain lots of witty dialogue and force you to think to be any good. It’s the same thing with music. Anything that’s fast or noisy is considered bad. It’s just getting ridiculous that anything that’s ‘cool’ is considered to be inferior. One more thing is that please don’t flame me for this!
With all the remakes there are these days, or movies about decades old cartoons as though all the good ideas have been taken and the old ones need regurgitating, it’s no wonder today’s hollywood films get no credit. I don’t believe they deserve any. But thankfully, there are great foreign and indy films, so we don’t have to totally rely on the past. Citizen Kane isn’t my favorite all time film, but it (and the dense film Birth of a Nation) will always be listed at the top for being so different from the films that came before it. Who knows when, if ever, hollywood will stop making cookie cutter films and make something unique again.
Similarly with music, american pop music used to change decade by decade, now we have rock being regurgitated for 40 years and rap for 30….
Hope you don’t consider this flaming, I just feel passionately that creativity is gone in american pop culture.