With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
Movies are better than they were around 2010-11ish
Leading up to 2010 the movies were also hot garbage. It’s no shock we let Disney buy everything.
I’ve found this is particularly true of horror movies - they were pretty bad from the mid-90s until the early-10s before the Babadook ushered in a new golden age of horror (It Follows, The Witch, Get Out, Hereditary etc)
though now the genre is more popular than ever there’s a high quantity of trash again, but that was even more true in the 80s golden age
Because in practice late 80’s early 90’s slashers basically murdered the genre. They were too commercially successful at first and then quickly became trash until they burned everyone out.
The indie and art house horror scene was still good in the 2010’s and 2000’s. Irreversable, Enter the Void, Let the Right One In, The Descent, Antichrist, Melancholia, The House of the Devil, 28 Days Later, Insidious, Ponty Pool, Pan’s Labrynth, REC, Gozu, Ichi The Killer, One MIssed call, Ringu, the unfairly maligned Session 9, Martyrs, Ju-On
Also Final Destination was ahead of its time. Nobody realized that they were ironic horror comedies. Also Teeth and Jennifer’s Body were good in this category.
The main problem you’re talking about is that general audiences didn’t think of horror as anything but JASON KILLS TEENAGER FOR HAVING SEX
oh yeah there’s definitely plenty of gems in all those decades, some of those are my all time favorites. the 90s had some good shit too (Candyman etc) though it was fewer and far between. I think in the past decade we’ve started consistently getting good horror movies every year again which is awesome
Other Guys and Due Date came out in 2010 , you’re wrong sir