@sheepy Said 
Are you just thinking of the "much hyped blockbuster" type of movie?
There are loads of decent movies made recently. Star Wars if made today would be laughed off the screen, it's so cheesy and predictable.
Titanic, it was definately groundbreaking for special effects at the time, but was racist, extremely predictable the way it enforced cultural stereotypes, and frankly if I was related to any of the crew of that ship, I'd have sued that a*****e directors backside off.
80's movies in particular just don't seem to have aged that well.
How far do you want to go back to say a movie is being made "at the moment"?
Check out -
Wall-E - possibly the deepest movie from Pixar (And certainly Disney) for a long time.
Juno - Really offbeat indie style movie.
Batman Begins/Dark Knight - blockbusters and massive improvements on the original Batman movies from the 90's.
You mention The Matrix as being bad, so I'm guessing you count modern movies as going back a few years, so -
Gladiator
American Beauty
Finding Nemo (Yes, guess that was a bit predictable)
Kill Bill
Hostel (If you fancy a bit of sickness - but really different)
Pans Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean number 1 (Let's forget the others were ever made)
Try out loads of asian movies -
Infernal Affairs
Old Boy
Il Mare
Shaolin Soccer
Just too many to mention.
i was just naming movies that came to mind, had nothing to do with them being blockbusters.
why would you sue them? Titanic was historically accurate, what would you have them due, alter everything and make it seem like one big enjoyable tea party? thats how things were back then. predictable? it's almost a 90 year old story that everyone should have heard about, why wouldnt it be predictable?
as for the Batmans, i think the Darknight was overall really well done, but I personally think Batman Forever was still the best batman movie.
as for juno and animated movies im talking about movies that really well made, like Gladiator, thanks I forgot to mention that, dont get me wrong juno is a good movie, havent seen wall e yet but plan to, as far as animated goes, thats on a different level.
Pirates was also a great movie, well done, but the story line had a bunch of holes in it.
Mar 23, 2009 @ 20:50:52
The crew and overall cast were portrayed in a racist stereotype, if they were English with suitable accent, then they were either cowardly, murderous or plain dumb/incompetant. Usual trick of making sure the decent characters were Americans, and of course, stereotype the Irish as all lovable. Still that's Hollyweird for you. I once argued with some idiot in Australia on here who thought "Braveheart" was historically accurate 
