Whether this turns into a discussion or stops with this post, I think it's about time it was brought up.
Recently I've been seeing a lot of posts about how someone re-watched a movie from the last 20+/- take years and making some overly long post about how it still holds up or it's still great...
Now whilst this is a pretty cynical post I admit, it's because I believe it's leading film discussion into a boring, vanilla direction on r/movies because most of these movies are still regarded as great and haven't even entered a time where their quality is doubted.
If you want to re-watch a film from the last 10-20 years and talk about how much you enjoy it with everyone else, go for your life. But stop pretending you're making some great unknown claim that it still holds up. It devalues highlighting films from the past that genuinely do hold up that people may not be aware of.
One example irritated me the most was the post made a couple months aog about 'Wall-E' "still" being a great film and managing to still be relevant today. The movie was made in 2008..
Ultimately I think we should save these posts for films that present similar social commentary but was made 50 years ago or films that presented an idea of a future that we are actually living in, or films that were regarded as sub-par in the past but with a modern viewing it raises its quality. These ideas of film discussion are what older films that "still hold up" should be for. Not so you can just blab about how you liked a film and feel like you're surprising the internet with your newfound "revelation" - I'm looking at you 'Snatch' post from today.
Submitted April 08, 2019 at 09:22AM by greenstreet18 http://bit.ly/2Vt1TXC
