Why are old movies so good? · 1:13am Aug 21st, 2024
Full-send, being dragged into movie nights with family can be fun sometimes
Went through My Big Fat Greek Wedding
And god, I can't begin to overstate how fun movies of that era are. No ironic 'oh hurhur this is all a joke,' it's just pure comedy and camp and fun without excessive melodrama- people just get over themselves and it's a fun, memorable watch
This shit is exactly what fires me up and inspires me to write. Just good, campy, genuine works. I really, really wish movies, tv shows, hell even a lot of fiction nowadays could like- take itself seriously, while also having fun, without being super ironic about it
Because I cracked up so many times just on small jokes and situational comedy and just like, I know the modern equivalent of that would basically be forcing it in your face and making it an entire scene, which suuuucks
Anyways, that's my 'post-movie rant' LMAO. It was a nice time, I need to find more campy, fun movies to dig into for writing inspiration
I've written like 5k these past few days on a few of my projects, so things are a' comin'! Definitely plan to post soonish, so long as I can get that momentum going 
I initially guffawed at the thought of calling My Big Fat Greek Wedding "old"… only to then immediately remember that, as a matter of fact, it came out a little over 22 years ago. Dang.
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Yup, welcome to it
That's old now
Suffer along with me
LMAO
^this (and a dozen other videos like it) might shed some light on why modern filmmaking doesn’t have the same lasting, timeless quality that older films do.
Cause most new ones are woke beyond belief.
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Fr. I was going to make a jab at Marvel in the post but I felt that was too on the nose LMAO
All I can say, is a lot of those videos do ultimately put my modus operandi in words
AKA 'just be genuine 4head' and 'art isn't irony or a university classroom'
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The MCU and it's consequences have been a disaster for screenwriting.
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Honestly, Marvel movies are fine when you realize their target audience is (supposed to be) kids. I appreciate that at the very least they eschew the idea that Good Guys win because they retain Good Morals, perform heroic actions and stay stoic in the face of danger, and Bad Guys lose because they cheat, lie, steal and, generally, engage in anti-social behaviour.
I don’t really like Marvel movies, I think they exemplify all the worst qualities of films, but I can appreciate that seeing 3 different Spider-Men fight 6 different super villains is probably the coolest thing in the world to a 9 year old. I’m glad that that have that.
That said, I think if you’re an adult, and you engage in idol worshiping super heroes (or Star Wars, or whichever media franchise), and you treat that associatedmedia like it were the Word of The Almighty, and own thousands of dollars of plastic shaped like Star Lord and Yoda and Jon Snow that it’s, possibly, a little weird.
But wtf do I know? I write stories about cartoon talking horses engaging in lewd acts, being delinquents and saying cuss words?
Always love engaging in deep discourse in the comment section of one of Lynser’s blog posts, my fave past time outside of autistically absorbing Elder Scrolls Lore and re reading the same 3 McCarthy books over and over and over.
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My main gripe with this modern strain of screenwriting - exemplified by later MCU entries - is the absolutely insufferable overuse/over-reliance on bathos. Don't get me wrong: bathos is a great narrative tool, but it's use has to be spaced out. Repeating the same rug-pulling on the dramatic tension and emotional stakes ad nauseam ceases to elicit the levity that bathos is normally supposed to evoke. Rather, it cheapens the stakes, and in the worst cases, turns them into a joke themselves: something you're just rolling your eyes at as you wait for them to be kneecapped by some character's unfunny one-liner.
It sucks too, because there are MCU entries that are legitimately good at employing bathos. But once Joss Whedon was out, the hacks that picked up the slack decided to spam the technique without understanding how to correctly use it. Shit, if we're talking Whedon, then Firefly is the best example of his correct use of bathos that comes to my mind. I've really got to watch Firefly again sometime. Gone too soon!
Other than that,
I'll defer to C.S. Lewis on this one: “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” Lauren Faust said something to a similar effect on her shows as well, Friendship Is Magic very much included.
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I agree 100% with you. There’s a lot of broken components that go into making modern action/adventure films, especially Marvel movies — bad cinematography, overuse or unimpressive CGI, overuse of quick-cut editing, really really lame dialogue focused around gotcha snappy comebacks, enormous reliance on Fan service, cameos, callbacks and nostalgia bating.
MLP is a great example of a show, oriented towards kids, but written in a way that also appealed to adults. It certainly can be done, and there’s many examples of ‘kids’ shows that can also appeal to wider audiences than just children.
I dunno, the state of most movies coming out being these generic, bland, dull, 95 to 110 minute soulless cash grabs really makes you appreciate the little bits of life, and soul, and inventiveness put into a lot of older films, or even the odd, genuinely interesting film that comes out now.
Just read more books, you can get all the same thrills of watching a movie from reading, and girls (or guys) will find you suddenly even more attractive if they think you’re some introspective, well versed, intellectual type.
"My achor >:|" Never fails to get me to smile
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