mZuzek said:
I don't care about it being a "genre classic". For all I care Ocarina of Time is worse than several other Zelda games that were never called classics either, and the same applies to a lot of things whether it's games, movies, books, music or whatever. A classic always has a sort of nostalgia attached to it, a level of glorification that is unearned - the most obvious example here being Return of the Jedi, a movie that is far from being amazing, yet is constantly hailed just because of the meaning it carries as the last in a classic trilogy. Calling something a classic is only an attempt at finding a consensus of opinion, which is something that doesn't exist. |
My point is the nerdy portion of the online "critics" community has gotten out of control. They don't like anything.
The fact is if you really look at what the "good movies" are that they agree upon, it's a tiny list of like 10 movies, most of which are like 30 years old.
Basically the only "good fantasy movies" from 1995 onwards is like The Matrix (1999), LOTR trilogy (2001-2003), and uh The Dark Knight (2008). Maybe an honorable mention to X-Men 2 (2003) and Logan (2016).
At least the new Star Wars movies are on par/better than most of its modern contemporaries. I'd say the new Star Wars movies are as good as the Marvel films.
Whereas the prequels were considerably worse than The Matrix and Raimi's Spider-Man films. Hell, the first Mummy movie felt like it captured more of the fun of the original Star Wars than the prequels did.
