I get annoyed when people say ‘modern movies suck’ or something along that line, especially critics making videos with that in a title. It’s such a bad faith, blanket statement. I share the concern that the box office is so dominated by familiar brands, but there are loads of original (and great) movies being made if you only look for them. People who argue the quality of storytelling has dropped almost always just cherry pick classics from the 60s, 70s, 80s etc and conveniently ignore that comic book movies or franchise films coming out on top is nothing new - movies like The Shining and Blade Runner were both box office flops, and franchise entries like Batman Forever made twice as much money as both of them put together. But I guess it’s cool to complain about ‘these days’ and show how much smarter you are than everyone else.