Why aren't the good 60s thru 90s movies being released in HQ?

[EtherealHours]

Why is hollywood dead as far as storytelling goes? I bought several hundred movies last year, most were older movies I hadn't heard of from 60s through 90s, and hitchcock. This year I've bought 2. I have thou$$ands to spend, but all that's put out anymore is the newest imo junk; one liberal propoganda piece after another. There's no fun in movies anymore, toilet bowl humor, it's never been worse in hollywood. Then why are the 60s thru 90s almost ignored for 4K, even BD? They'll release shrek 14 in 4k before they release The Spanish Prisoner, Seduced, Martian Chronicles, The Man Who Loved Women (Burt Reynolds), Someone's Watching Me, Romeo is Bleeding, The Beast (Peter Benchley)... All are better stories than almost everything released today. The movie industry has turned its back on several great decades...a kind of censorship...dark days today for American Cinema. What are the enemies they are shunning?

[maxpeck]

I'm certainly no expert, but as for older films there is the issue of media deterioration. Even in ideal storage today film will eventually start to degrade, and if you consider a film from over 50 years ago they probably had a different definition of "ideal storage". Now it is possible to digitally remaster/reconstruct degraded films, but that takes a lot of time and resources ($$$). So if there's no market demand for it, then Hollywood is not going to waste the money doing that kind of project.

Besides, many of those older movies are available on DVD. You're not going to get much better quality than that from old films, so I really don't see the motivation to re-release on 4K or BD.