A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.
I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more.
It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years.
Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.
There is more, better content out there now than any point in history.
Well that's patently ridiculous. Maybe you've just matured and have better ways to spend your time?
I can only guess why:
- More focus on content instead of message
- Less political restriction on content compared to today
And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience.
This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.
I don't enjoy today's politics, either. But art and entertainment was never really politics-free.
There is just significantly more content, and so people draw incomplete conclusions and make assumptions. Nothing new.
To agree with the sentiment "there are no good TV shows anymore" is pure nonsense.
I'm not one to long for years past, but quality has been taken over by quantity many leagues over.
The answer here is not that modern content is worse, simply that you need to expand your horizons and maybe stop judging stuff and dismissing it.
Few years back i was an avid user of YIFI (yts), to the point that i even made a front end to it. I don't think i liked the piracy aspect of it, the thing for me was the catalog. Lots and lots of indie titles.
I think a combination of bad titles, spread across multiple streaming services made me quit the whole thing.
I now watch YouTube and play some Xbox on my spare time.
That aside though, there are still plenty of good titles. More than ever. People just have no clue where to look or want more of the stuff they liked 20 years ago I guess.