Which is better over the last decade? Movies, TV, Video Games (1 Viewer)

[Homer J Simpson]

Spinoff from the Game of Thrones thread...didn't want to derail that one any further.

I say we're in a golden age of TV and have been for a while. The networks have devolved into fighting over the lowest common denominator and the dollars that trickle forth, meanwhile AMC, HBO, Showtime, FX and the like have been producing the best scripted drama in my lifetime.

I'd put gaming at the 2nd spot for sheer entertainment value and variety, but the movie business has been sucking hind tit for quite some time.

Thoughts?

And for polling purposes, gaming includes consoles, PC games, and mobile apps.

 

[DSP]

Games/movies/tv

 

[bentley]

I agree on TV > Movies. Which is the way it should be. A committed storyteller has a lot more time on TV to build characters and drama than they do in 2-3 hours of movie time. The biggest example of that was the Firefly season vs. Serenity the movie. They had to rush through everything in the film instead of letting the story unfold.

 

[Kenny Powers]

If were comparing 90's/early 00's to now, its easily TV. There are still plenty of great films, but its not like Hollywood has broken new ground. Despite TV becoming easily replaceable, cable programming has improved.

Video games? Barely, play em, and Im younger than most of you old ####s

 

[Homer J Simpson]

If were comparing 90's/early 00's to now, its easily TV. There are still plenty of great films, but its not like Hollywood has broken new ground. Despite TV becoming easily replaceable, cable programming has improved.

Video games? Barely, play em, and Im younger than most of you old ####s

Meh. I'm struggling to find movies that hit me anywhere close to the way they did 15-20 years ago. Maybe it's just me, but if I had to throw out my top 10 or 20 favorite movies I couldn't name more than 1 or 2 that have come out in the last decade.

 

[Insein]

I think there is a fair amount of top tier talent and equally reprehensible drek in all 3 categories. Gaming is at its pinnacle right now IMO. I don't think it can get any higher than it has been in this last decade. While there have been great games in the past, the production values, level of detail into storytelling and over all quality of gameplay has never been better in the AAA titles of this past gen (x360, ps3, wii and pc).

The corporate feel is creeping in though and I fear daring hits will have a hard time breaking through without some kind of needless add-on that an over company like EA requires to get the game to the market. The money grab phase of games has been much more prevalent in the last 4 years or so with half built free-to-play teasers that force the gamer into a pay-to-win scenario. So not sure how much longer video games can climb.

Tv has been great at the top but never lower at the bottom. Reality tv continues to be the blackest black shadow of the glimmering white cable drama lineup. For every Sopranos or Mad Men, we get 8 freak show level reality tv ####fests that just ooze the LCD.

Movies have been highly entertaining but not very memorable. A lot of sequals and popcorn flicks which are not a bad thing but when movies like Avatar are lauded as groundbreaking cinematography, we've reached a low point in quality.

 

[FUBAR]

If were comparing 90's/early 00's to now, its easily TV. There are still plenty of great films, but its not like Hollywood has broken new ground. Despite TV becoming easily replaceable, cable programming has improved.

Video games? Barely, play em, and Im younger than most of you old ####s

Meh. I'm struggling to find movies that hit me anywhere close to the way they did 15-20 years ago. Maybe it's just me, but if I had to throw out my top 10 or 20 favorite movies I couldn't name more than 1 or 2 that have come out in the last decade.

If were comparing 90's/early 00's to now, its easily TV. There are still plenty of great films, but its not like Hollywood has broken new ground. Despite TV becoming easily replaceable, cable programming has improved.

Video games? Barely, play em, and Im younger than most of you old ####s

Meh. I'm struggling to find movies that hit me anywhere close to the way they did 15-20 years ago. Maybe it's just me, but if I had to throw out my top 10 or 20 favorite movies I couldn't name more than 1 or 2 that have come out in the last decade.

The special effects have gotten a lot better, but it seems the story telling has gotten lazy for most big budget films.

and the ideas seem to be waning. Too many reboots of franchises.

 

[shadyridr]

Id say tv/video games/ Movies

I wouldnt argue putting video games first though

 

[Del Griffith]

I don't even play video games, and I put that one first by default.

TV isn't so bad, maybe because I've had far less time to watch it over the last decade, so what I do watch is quality material, IMO.

Movies are buck nekkid last...not even close. Hollywood has run out of ideas.

 

[flysack]

It's been a golden age of TV while Indie cinema is still in its infancy and Hollywood has gone to total crap.

Some video games really showed promise (ex. The Last of Us), but the tech is only 30 years old compared to a century of film and 60 years of TV. Check back in 30 more years, at least. I'm optimistic.

 

[Ilov80s]

Id say tv/video games/ Movies

I wouldnt argue putting video games first though

If were comparing 90's/early 00's to now, its easily TV. There are still plenty of great films, but its not like Hollywood has broken new ground. Despite TV becoming easily replaceable, cable programming has improved.

Video games? Barely, play em, and Im younger than most of you old ####s

Meh. I'm struggling to find movies that hit me anywhere close to the way they did 15-20 years ago. Maybe it's just me, but if I had to throw out my top 10 or 20 favorite movies I couldn't name more than 1 or 2 that have come out in the last decade.

Yet, if I am naming my favorite TV shows of all time there are tons of shows from the last decade that are in the running Mad Men, the Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Rome, Deadwood, American Horror Story, It's Always Sunny,Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Office, Arrested Development.

 

[MAC_32]

It's been a golden age of TV while Indie cinema is still in its infancy and Hollywood has gone to total crap.

i have no opinion on video games, but re movies vs tv - so much this.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Even though I'd probably put them 3rd, people aren't really giving movies a fair shake here by comparing big budget blockbusters to cable dramas and smaller story based games. A fair comparison of the big budget blockbusters would be to stuff like Call of Duty and American Idol. There are some really, really great movies outside the realm of big high budget stuff.

Still, even in that high budget stuff modern effects are absolutely out of this world. Show people from 20 years ago a modern day movie and I think they'd be blown away. Cool effects are shallow, but they're still quite awesome.

That said, TV and games are utterly awesome in their own right. Serious, dramatic television didn't really exist at the level it does today in the past and it's friggin awesome. Videogames have evolved so far beyond simplicity (I still shutter at the mainstream image of videogame "levels", etc) that they're almost unrecognizable compared to what they used to be. 20 years ago I would never have imagined that something like the Mass Effect trilogy was even possible. An intricate story spanning over 5+ years of our life with interconnected characters that you really grow to care about all mixed with gameplay as good as any shooter out there? Insane. Then you throw in stuff like Xbox Live (and now PSN) keeping everyone connected in multiplayer gaming. It makes the stuff I played growing up look like, literally, child's play.

I would probably rank it games/tv/movies in that order overall, though unlike the populace that likes to just rip on movies I think we're in a golden age of all three. Digital entertainment is just off the charts in general right now. I could never work another day in my life and never get bored.