I'll agree with others that peak Hollywood was long before 2023. The last time I was actually excited to go to a theater was in 2018 to see "They Shall Not Grow Old." It is WWI footage that Peter Jackson restored. It was fantastic, and largely ignored by everybody.

Prior to that, the last movie I was actually excited to see in theater was the LOTR Trilogy. Funny that in twenty years, only works by Peter Jackson have motivated me enough to go to an actual theater. In fact, with Lord of the Rings (both Two Towers and Return of the King), I wanted to see them so badly, without distraction, that I insisted on going to the theater alone. No distractions, middle of the day, on a Monday. Yes, I was (am) a huge Tolkien nerd, and I reread all three books beforehand to get prepared for the movies. It's sad that movies like that will never be made again.

I will head other comments off at the pass by saying it for everybody: The Hobbit series sucked. Like George Lucas with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Jackson got carried away with CGI and couldn't make lighting strike twice.

Soooo, over the holidays wife put on Barbie and its no 7 year old girl movie. The acting and most of ghe story pulled me in.

More than a few chortles, snorts, and laughs from my side of the couch snd, it was a good story especially when Barbie was having a hard time fathoming wokecrap.

I didn’t object when my wife asked all the women folk if they wanted to watch. (I didn’t sit through the whole second screening but didn’t stay gone the whole movie either)

Best Picture nomination - yes, its good enough for that.

Best Picture Award - not quite there.

Tbh though, just one year i would like to hear, "the academy doesn’t have any nominations for best [fill in blank here] because they were all crap this year."

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
... very few original ideas emerging.

And what few there've been have been almost universally execrable.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Soooo, over the holidays wife put on Barbie and its no 7 year old girl movie. The acting and most of ghe story pulled me in.

More than a few chortles, snorts, and laughs from my side of the couch snd, it was a good story especially when Barbie was having a hard time fathoming wokecrap.

Fascinating.

Maybe we'll give it a go, after all.

Peak Hollywood was 1939. There were more great movies that year than any other, and they remain great today.

There have been individual movies in other years that are fantastic, but no other year comes close to '39 overall.