Yeah....we're getting old!

Nope, not for me!

There were some great films this year.  Boyhood, The Lego Movie, Nightcrawler, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow ,The Grand Budapest Hotel, Gone Girl, Days of Future Past, DOTPOTA, etc...

And 2015 has me really excited! Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, That’s What I’m Talking About, The Hateful Eight, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out, Tomorrowland, The Martian, Ex Machina, Mission: Impossible 5, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Mad Max: Fury Road & Crimson Peak to name a few.

# TITLES BY YEAR
1920's - 2
1930's - 28
1940's - 39
1950's - 40
1960's - 72
1970's - 134
1980's - 355
1990's - 583
2000's - 1407
2010's - 437

I was born in 1971:
# TITLES
<= 1970 - 192
=  1971 - 14
>= 1972 - 2891

TOTAL # TITLES - 3097

% TITLES
<= 1970 - 6.2%
=  1971 - 0.5%
>= 1972 - 93.3%

My numbers do skew newer, but that is more to do with the availability & number of movies produced rather than my taste.

Well, I didn't mean movies from before my birth year (1947), but...


Only 9.6% of my films are from 1946 or earlier. And while I have a peak at 2001, that's more because of availability than my taste.

Interesting to note that Karsten has a dip at 2001, where my collection peaks.

For me theres some lack of interest because they more or less stopped making space scifi, especially TV. Recently had to move more to the indie/b-movie side just keep the withdrawal effects away.

Helpful as always!

One of the reasons that I don't fully appreciate todays movies is CGI. To me, CGI vs. old style effects is kind of similar to plastic vs. wood. You can do wondrous things with plastic, but it's a dead material, unlike wood. Given a choice of wood furniture or plastic furniture I would choose wood every time.

And my feelings for movie effects are about the same. Most CGI just doesn't have any “soul”, as far as I'm concerned. That's why I prefer the 1978 Superman over any of the recent superhero movies. The latest Godzilla? No thanks, I'd rather watch Harou Nakajima in a rubber suit trampling miniature Tokyo. (It was much better than the 1998 Godzilla, though. I have to give it that.)

Of course that's not the only reason. The subject matter of very many recent films just does not resonate with me. Take Gravity, for example. A technical marvel, but I found it boring. I actually found Sharknado more entertaining than Gravity. But of course no SyFy shark can come anywhere near Jaws.

I would re-watch the worst of Christopher Lee's Dracula movies (probably Satanic Rites) rather than watching Twilight or any of that ilk. I would re-watch Fulci's Zombi 2 before dipping into any of the recent zombie movies. And I'm not even a great fan of Fulci.

That's not to say that there are no movies this side of 2000 that I have liked. I loved Coraline and ParaNorman, for example. Old style stop motion. I liked the Lord of the Rings trilogy (despite the CGI). And quite a few other movies. But the bulk of my favorites were produced before 1990.