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<blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 215966" data-attributes="member: 446"><p>Well, I pasted the box office top 10's for 1971 and 2014 above <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>My claim is about the movies that Americans actually watch, weighted by # of times watched (which is roughly box office, I think) and that the quality of such has gone down markedly since about 1970-1995 or a bit later.</p><p></p><p>I thought you were claiming that the box-office champs of 2014 were as good as those of 1971, which I would find an interesting claim.</p><p></p><p>I would bet that the quality of the ten best-quality movies has gone down too, but I'd need to do some research. I don't know of a good aggregate source of critics' rankings other than Sight & Sound, which probably doesn't have enough ranked US movies per year for this purpose. Rotten Tomatoes might work, the yea/nay part is way too coarse to say much, and I don't know if their choice of critics is any good.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd like to see some evidence of this... tons of low-budget movies were made in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. I don't know if it's more or less than now, or if it's easy to find out...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="invitro, post: 215966, member: 446"] Well, I pasted the box office top 10's for 1971 and 2014 above :). My claim is about the movies that Americans actually watch, weighted by # of times watched (which is roughly box office, I think) and that the quality of such has gone down markedly since about 1970-1995 or a bit later. I thought you were claiming that the box-office champs of 2014 were as good as those of 1971, which I would find an interesting claim. I would bet that the quality of the ten best-quality movies has gone down too, but I'd need to do some research. I don't know of a good aggregate source of critics' rankings other than Sight & Sound, which probably doesn't have enough ranked US movies per year for this purpose. Rotten Tomatoes might work, the yea/nay part is way too coarse to say much, and I don't know if their choice of critics is any good. I'd like to see some evidence of this... tons of low-budget movies were made in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. I don't know if it's more or less than now, or if it's easy to find out... [/QUOTE]
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