Oh, how we hear it on this blog. How the movies today are awful. The violence. The sex. The language.
The acting. The writing. The messages being shoved down our throats.
If we were to ask the question, Do You Get Into Fights About the Movies?, this is the fight that would probably come up the fastest. (Oh, wait: It did.) Of course, this is where we Ask Movie Irv, not Ask George the Guy Who Makes These Videos, so I won’t go on at length about how generally illegitimate I find those assertions to be, seeing as how they pretty much barf themselves up repeatedly the moment the members of a given generation begin waxing nostalgic about the era of cinema they grew up with (and consequently feel the most magical about) and look down their noses at whatever “those %#&$! kids” find so engrossing today. I recently read a great article—and I kick myself now for not remembering where so I could helpfully link to it—that spelled out clearly just how sex-obsessed the movies were back in the DeMille days, and also how relatively chaste they are today compared to them, or, say, to the daring films of the 1970s. And furthermore…
Oops.
Here’s Irv on the question that never ceases to result in a near-uniform answer:
OK, now that that’s over, let’s hear it for how today’s movies are lousy! And if you think this question was way too easy (or gives you too much agita), try something a little more challenging by answering Who’s The Funniest of The Three Stooges instead.