Is it me or movies and music from the 90's seem better than today

[#1 pick]

Women are much better looking today than in 1995.

 

[Wild self]

Yeah, but especially when it comes to movies a lot of that was fools gold. Those movies were good, but how many hood stories can we tell?

That material has already been mined and buried, so now can we tell entertaining stories about our history, and overall different, weightier, more complex subject matter other than a crazy niqqa named o'dog shooting up half the black males in Los Angeles? And more importantly will black audiences, and the overall movie going public respond to less superficial stories that revolve around a black cast, and dont completely revolve around sex and purposeless violence?

2012 was the best year for hip hop in over a decade. Mainstream artists arent afraid anymore to rhyme words that are more than one syllable long, and tell stories that exist outside of the nightclub or car showroom.

I agree. Menace II Society boxed us black folk in, acting like savages for the sake of entertainment and looking cool. It harmed us and made a generation of nikkas that are afraid of black history and knowledge. Black folks need to go branch out to leading roles in sci-fi films and intelligent comedy.

Yeah, I agree that rap over the last couple of years has has a renaissance of sorts. You got these new rappers that are lyrical and have staying power (J Cole, K Dot, Wale, Meek Millz) and they come from an everyday person perspective, not some super exaggerated gangsta angle.

 

[Wild self]

I think shyt was better back then bc my young mind didn't understand the finances and pending riches encompassing a "project." Now, I look at most of today's efforts as people jumping the shark to make money; throwing creativity in the bushes. For example, multiple sequels (Twilight series), constant remakes of movies, re-ups of reality television and music as a whole.

That is because the media figure heads are super greedy and only want the MOST profitable figures. An "Endgame" of sorts. All or nothing, according to these execs. Even cartoons are even worse animated now, despite having high-end tech

Women are much better looking today than in 1995.

yeah cause they got them fake, mutated asses and silicone titties. Add to the fact that these 90s babies chicks were raised on processed junk food too. Problem is that it is hard-pressed to find a chick that's in-shape, too cause nikkas are thirsting over "thick" broads.

 

[Ghpstface]

That material has already been mined and buried, so can we now tell entertaining stories about our history, and overall different, weightier, more complex subject matter other than a crazy niqqa named o'dog shooting up half the black males in Los Angeles? And more importantly will black audiences, and the overall movie going public respond to less superficial stories that revolve around a black cast, and dont completely revolve around sex and purposeless violence?
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if that's all you got out of menace ii to society then you lost. and where are these new movies that celebrate our rich heritage? tyler perry? precious?


so much fail in one post

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Yeah, but times have changed....

I honestly couldn't name 5 GOOD black movies thats have came out in the last 5 years. I can barely even name 5 black movies from that time

Reality TV kinda of killed the good sitcoms and network shows for the most part outside of a select few.

It seems like now there is more stuff to watch and do. But the quality has gone down some.

 

[Cuban Pete]

movies no.... music yes 4 the most part

 

[filial_piety]

music yea? Atleast for rap.

Movies? Nah...I'd even go on to say that movies from the 80s were better than ones in the 90s.

When I think of movies like Gladiator, Apocolpyto, Munich, City of God, Curious Case, the Bourne Series etc etc...I think the 2000s were just better than the 90s

Edit: I agree black movies from the 90s are waaay waaay better than the black movies of today. There's no comparison.

 

[#1 pick]

Yeah, but times have changed....

I honestly couldn't name 5 GOOD black movies thats have came out in the last 5 years. I can barely even name 5 black movies from that time

Reality TV kinda of killed the good sitcoms and network shows for the most part outside of a select few.

It seems like now there is more stuff to watch and do

Tyler Perry and the Steve Harvey movie.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

I agree. Menace II Society boxed us black folk in, acting like savages for the sake of entertainment and looking cool. It harmed us and made a generation of nikkas that are afraid of black history and knowledge. Black folks need to go branch out to leading roles in sci-fi films and intelligent comedy.

Yeah, I agree that rap over the last couple of years has has a renaissance of sorts. You got these new rappers that are lyrical and have staying power (J Cole, K Dot, Wale, Meek Millz) and they come from an everyday person perspective, not some super exaggerated gangsta angle.

Cosign.

There seems to be a near monopoly over the Science Fiction market (although I see good changes being made), and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's tired of the beaten-horse horror movie cliche where the black guy dies first.

That and intelligent comedy from non whites that seems to be really taking hold with broader audiences. Not saying that it has to be all heavy subjects like politics and religion all the time, but breaking away from the, "Here's how our minority group is different from white people..." tagline wouldn't hurt and seems to be going well as far as material goes.

I try not to pine for the past and overly romanticize "the way things were." I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did. Did I like the fun things that I had to do as a kid like Otter Pops, X-Men, and the top sports figures of the time? Of course. But records and standards are only set to be broken.

 

[ALLiKNOWizPAIN]

it just depends

 

[No_bammer_weed]

if that's all you got out of menace ii to society then you lost. and where are these new movies that celebrate our rich heritage? tyler perry? precious?


so much fail in one post

I wasnt dissing M2S, I was simply illustrating that there are only so many inner city stories that can be told, and those movies made up the bulk of black 90s cinema. Is that all our experience is limited to as a whole?

And where the fck did you get from my post that I was bigging up Tyler Perry? Why say that?

 

[concise]

Congratulations, you are officially old.

 

[Yoda]

Well Christopher Nolan dropped so many classic films in the 2000s.
And Blu came out in the 2000s.
I guess its all a matter of taste, i think the 90s are overrated as fizuck.

 

[Ghpstface]

I wasnt dissing M2S, I was simply illustrating that there are only so many inner city stories that can be told, and those movies made up the bulk of black 90s cinema. Is that all our experience is limited to as a whole?

And where the fck did you get from my post that I was bigging up Tyler Perry? Why say that?

which new black movies are deeper and more complex basically is what im asking.

 

[MBwithadream]

Women are much better looking today than in 1995.

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& they wore better clothes.