@oreioss It is indeed the case that our Grandparents and Parents made movies that were far more brave, and willing to leave an audience scared and shocked. It was also easier to scare and shock as the production standards were more primative, and the audience understood -
instead relying more on their imaginations. Today's special effects are so sophisticated, it makes it very hard to stretch your own imagination's wings sometimes. Older films require you to flex your own brain's muscles more.
Also, today's audiences simply favor their comfort zones. Escapism and saccharine endings over anything that makes them confront an uncomfortable truth.
Have you not seen Soylent Green? Logans Run? I watched those as a kid, and I tell you... Confronting those cautionary (and depressing) endings full in the face helped to make me intellectually inquisitive and what I hope is morally courageous. It really spoils the lesson when a cliche hero wins in the end, or love is reunited. You often walk away remembering less important things, or forgetting completely.
Shout by OreiossBlockedParentSpoilers2015-05-08T22:53:54Z
This is the first movie (from many) that I've seen where the human kind (good guys) actually lose.
Stunned and intrigued if this is also the fact in other older movies.