Let's say you never watched either movie and you were born in the 2000s.
2049 is obviously the superior movie.
Likely you were around when the original blade runner came out so your bias is already set.
I frankly find the idea that nostalgia is warping your perception of reality to be funny; aren't your tastes doing the same, and what about your whole brain ?
We are talking about a cultural entity, it's not like if we had the ability to talk without any bias.
It could be my perception is warped. All humans are biased and delusional but those who can't admit their bias are more biased then those who can.
>I frankly find the idea that nostalgia is warping your perception of reality to be funny; aren't your tastes doing the same, and what about your whole brain ?
Just talk to a bunch of young people. You realize a ton of zoomers don't give a shit about star wars? They really don't get it at all. Millennials all generally get why it's big.
Go even further back talk to older people and they like stuff that's ludicrously bad. Hitchcock for example while classic, has not aged well at all. I get scared easily by scary movies and I just laughed at Hitchcock stuff. It was the first of it's time, but story telling like technology has improved.
If you find all of this funny. If you refuse to believe that we all can have our perceptions warped by nostalgia, then I am telling you. The warping of your perception by nostalgia is so strong that you can't even admit that this phenomenon which is so obvious to most people even occurs.
I am not refusing to believe our perceptions can be warped by nostalgia. I said that our perception was warped anyway and I explained why "X is obviously the better movie" is a nonsense sentence.
That's absurd to imply I am nostalgic about a movie made about 20 years before I was born, even I prefer that one to the new one.
I continue to prefer that one over the new one even when I know more people of my age prefer the new one.
When you say "Hitchcock has not adged well at all" (which I disagree), aren't you simply telling that you are unable to enjoy things that are not a part of a current story-telling/technology "trend" ?
I do enjoy old things mainly because it brings some sort of fresh breeze to the current aesthetics of cinema. Old things are new to me.
One of my favorite musical composition of all time was written about 300 year ago; implying by this that my mind is warped by nostalgia and that I'm biased is pure nonsense.
Music has changed, but I reject the idea you implied that this change is an " improvement"; I don't think art is improvable stricto-sensus.
Is The Batman (2022) obviously superior to The Dark Knight?
(I was not alive in the 80s and love both Blade Runners, but would probably give the edge to the original if I had to choose my favorite. I greatly prefer TDK to TB, but that could be influenced by nostalgia)
The gap between 2022 batman and tdk is too small. When star wars came out it was relevant for over a decade.
Additionally it's impossible for things to increase and become "better" forever. In the last two decades we have are heading towards slow downs in improvements. For example Photoreal special effects can't get any better than Photoreal.
You give the edge to the original? Do you like older movies in general? Do you like vinyl records even though Spotify is superior? Then you belong to a segment of the population who hates everything mainstream because it's too popular. The more niche something is the more you like it because you think it makes you unique when I ironically it makes you cliche.
That could be you. Barring that then you just have unique tastes for br. What I talk about is more of a generality here. It doesn't account for deviations too far from the bell curve, unless your goal is to deviate from the bell curve as much as possible. Ironically if that is your goal, as I stated previously, then you're just moving closer to the center as a hipster.