In terms of “older” cinema: mainly starting from 1950’s until 2010’s (consisted of Silent, Boomer or Gen X actors) while “modern” cinema is more on after 2015 (where all the SJW agenda started appearing later on just to appease whom they deem their “modern” audience alongside excess use of CGI, make up, plastic surgery, green screen or AI) that it doesn’t even look believable.

Movies from the past used miniatures, practical effects, constructing movie sets alongside being filmed on location (as this was prior to CGI and green screen) like that scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) on how they managed to pull off the “floating pen” effect (a pen stuck on a glass pane) without them using CGI for that (the movie came out in the 60’s before that existed).

The acting from those vintage movies is different from today, as back then the majority are in black and white, only select movies are filmed entirely in technicolor. Back then, actors & actresses have to annunciate their voice as if they’re in a theater (even on film) since only black and white footage has it’s limitations. Technicolor movies have bright sets just to capture the hue on camera.

Movies made today seem “trash” (again, not all) as there’s a trend on actors having to explain to the audience on what’s going on since writers are aware that people nowadays have a short attention span on watching the movie (due to doom scrolling on their phone), while that isn’t the case with older movies from the 1950, 60, 70, 80 or 90s since people were not distracted with TikTok shorts.

Being a movie star in the past required talent and skill, basically grinding from being an extra until you become the main lead when you get the chance. Now, it seems like Hollywood is hiring social media influencers to become movie stars, but making a TikTok short & being famous from that overnight is not the same as professional filmmaking since those are not comparable at all.

Another reason why I prefer watching movies from the past (i.e. 1950-80s) is because they speak “proper English” while movies made now are filled with “Gen Z & Alpha slang” that in itself feels like hearing another language even though it’s not. I mean, you don’t hear skibidi or fanum tax for instance from a movie made in 1959 or 1982 since that kind of speech was non existent nor was brain rot.

However, if you watch “classic” (50s) movies, there’s no presence of social media, internet or an iPhone. Even some of the Hitchcock movies still hold up today due to the acting (i.e. Psycho, North by Northwest, etc.). Directors such as Stanley Kubrick & Steven Spielberg put effort into film making that even now their works hold up (mainly due to acting) and they used props & miniatures.

The thing about movies made now are that: it's CGI overload with low effort plus AI integration, basically killing off practical effects that made older movies stand out (set texture and realism plays a role like in Lord of the Rings: the sets in the movie are real life minatures, photos are taken then added in post as a still image) if done today, it'll just be a computer generated image.