Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
I disagree, all blockbusters are really entertaining, Hollywood has perfected it's formula, but arthouse-movies are thriving. With games you can't go wrong with the big titles, but there is an absolute wealth of indie-goodness and a dedicated modding community, gaming has never been better. Music, same. You can buy what the music industry wants you to buy, but thanks to the internet niche bands got a much bigger reach. We can watch, play and listen to what we like, creativity has been reclaimed, it's has never been better than right now.
That's just the problem though Frags, they are following a formula. We are talking about art, not fast food. When you take a fast food approach to art, you get the crap Hollywood is turning out nowadays.
Meanwhile most indie movies either try way to hard to be different and artistic and miss the point entirely, or have way to small of budgets to be any good.
As far as music goes, I don't know what music you listen to, but when I turn on a Country music station I feel like smashing out my eardrums with an ice-pick. What the heck happened to the country music of the 90's and early 2000's? Now they think they just need to mention apple pie, drinking, trucks, or honkytonking to have their song counted as country music. There is no soul in modern music.
As far as video games go, look at Thief 4 and Deus Ex 3 and compare them to Deus Ex 1 and Thief I and II. There is no comparison. 90% of modern video games with the notable exception of simulators have been total garbage. The best game to come out in the last 3 years (DLC Quest) is a parody of how ridiculous modern video games are.

Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Yeah I'm with frags. The world is on media overload, if you sift through the crap there's plenty of gold.
Quantity is not quality. And sorry, but I don't think there is plenty of gold. If you search really, really hard and endure all kinds of disappointment you will stumble across the odd good movie, song, or video game, but nothing amazing like in the 1920's-early 2000's. Entertainment has stopped being art that makes a profit and has turned completely into a scientific, cold, calculated money milking system. Art has gone to hell.