Picrel aren’t just some of the most critically praised releases in recent years but they've also been commercially successful, which was almost unthinkable just a few years ago when marvelslop dominated everything.

I mean just think about it:
A Robert Eggers film becoming a cultural conversation? Original films crossing $300 million? Mid-budget movies actually making a comeback? The most popular film of the decade so far is a three-hour biopic drama? Seriously, who would've thought?
Even I genuinely thought something like Dune was destined to flop

So now the question is:
Is le cinema truly back?
Is this the decade Tarantino was talking about when he said that the pendulum needs to swing back? Is capeshit era actually dying?

Now what I'm about to say might sound completely retarded, but just hear me out.

I’ve noticed something.
It feels like a lot of zoomers (actual Gen Z who are in their early to mid 20s, not the skibidi gen alpha kids) are quite narcissistic that their self obsession with appearing intellectual has, almost unintentionally, led them to gravitate toward quality cinema.
A lot of them are watching genuinely intellectually demanding films—stuff with actual depth and substanceas as opposed to garbage slops—just to distance themselves from the normie capeshit crowd. Like everyone’s trying to out-intellect each other by flexing their understanding of cinema (typical reddit behaviour).
But ironically, this performative "anti-normie" behavior has started influencing the average normie zoomers themselves. They too want to fit in, so they've started watching quality films due to peer pressure, whether they like it or not. And in doing so, some have accidentally slowly developed genuine good taste and appreciation for cinema, and the internet has played a huge role in it.
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