Movies

Part of getting older is a growing nostalgia coupled with the sense that things are getting worse. I think an important part of getting old gracefully is fighting that.

So when I'm scrolling Netflix or Prime and the most promising picks are all at least 20 years old, I get concerned. Am I just falling into the nostalgia trap? AITA for thinking that the Rock probably isn't the right choice for every protagonist aged between 16 and 80?

What I kept coming back to while making this video was a genuine paradox. We have more potential source material than ever - more diverse stories, more lived experiences, more technological capability. The stresses of previous decades produced some of the greatest films ever made: 80s excess gave us Wall Street and Scarface, 90s existentialism gave us Fight Club and The Matrix. What's our era producing that's equivalent? What will people be re-watching in 30 years from what's being made right now?

In that context - with all of that potential - how depressing is it that we're making movies that nobody actually wants to watch.