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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>>212276124 (OP)
...And somehow, this has caused a noticeable cultural shift in viewing habits. There’s now real demand for “quality” cinema. Stuff that would’ve flopped five years ago is now pulling numbers and sparking conversation. Or maybe I'm just overly optimistic.

Also worth mentioning: early reviews and word-of-mouth have become more relevant.
Back in the days, even the worst Marvelslop would make billions. Now, if something gets bad buzz, people just skip it. Audiences are way more selective.
Or maybe cinema is just slowly dying, and people only show up when something feels genuinely special and worthwhile. And their criteria for judging a movie has shifted to critics' reviews, which tend to praise more intellectual films. As a result, audiences mostly hear good things about genuinely high-quality movies—and they only want to watch something that’s been critically praised, which has led to (or will lead to) resurgence in quality filmmaking. Ironically, the dying of cinema as indirectly caused a slow revival of quality movies.

I'm not saying it's been great or anything. Of course, we’ll probably never reach the creative heights of something like the 70s. That was lightning in a bottle. But compared to the soulless sludge of the 2010s? This is a serious step up. It feels like hope.

>tl;dr I want to kill all minorities

>>212276124 (OP)
Half of these movies suck

>>212276183
>something like the 70s
And caught.

>>212276124 (OP)
this is quite high-effort b8

Not a single movie in that picture is above a 7/10

>>212276124 (OP)
You put the Substance there but not Anora?

>>212276264
At least they suck in an interesting way and weren't just generic marvel sloppa

>>212276124 (OP)
there are always good films each year but that doesn't make a comeback when more than half are fucking shit

>>212276124 (OP)
99% of nu-cinema is pure slop

>>212276124 (OP)
Godzilla was pretty cool.

>>212277198
99% of old-cinema is pure slop too.

Both Thunderbolts and Ballerina are slop kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33soy13-fL0