What irks you the most with today's movies ( 2000 - present )???

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Originally Posted by Strevlac

I really do try to step back and look at each decade objectively. But no matter how many angles I approach it, the 00's look like shit.

Good thing we're not in the 00s anymore! But really I think the 00s only look like shit if one doesn't consider what's been going on outside of Hollywood. Just off the top of my head, and I'm sure if I spent a few minutes I could come up with more examples: Korean cinema has taken off in the last decade or so (Joon-ho Bong is one of my favorite working directors, and Chan-wook Park is no slouch either), and we've gotten some solid-to-great films from China and Japan as well. Throughout Europe we've got people like Jacques Audiard, Pedro Almodóvar, Fatih Akin, Götz Spielmann, Michael Haneke and plenty of others making great movies. Mexico's film industry has started to take off. There are people in the Middle East like Jafar Panahi making great films. Even if the US we've got people like Ramin Bahrani making consistently above-average-to-great films, not to mention people like the Coen Brothers and David Fincher who manage to consistently make excellent movies (with, yes, the occasional dud) with mainstream appeal. Yes, the 00s are crap if you look mainly at the preponderance of Bruckheimer- and Emmerich-inspired crapola and the tired and tiresome competition of boring, predictable and safe Oscar bait each year, but there's no shortage of great filmmaking to be had since the turn of the millennium, either.