>Music, I can't really say, for I don't pay much attention to today's popular music. Well just as an example, in the 60s-70s we had stuff like Led Zeppelin, Pi

>Music, I can't really say, for I don't pay much attention to today's popular music. Well just as an example, in the 60s-70s we had stuff like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and many other bands that are now called "classic rock" and have their own radio stations. I don't think these were ever technically considered "pop" (Disco was "pop" back in the 70s), they were always "rock". There is nothing these days that has the musical impact that Led Zeppelin did. >But I can say that there were a lot of terrible movies made then There were a lot of terrible movies (and every other art form) in every period. We memorialize the best, not the dreck. This has never changed, it's human nature. I'm sure there was a bunch of second-rate and third-rate junk in Mozart's day too, and we've forgotten it all. >and there are some made now that can stand up to what was made from 1960 through 1989. Like what? In the sci-fi genre, for instance, I sure haven't seen anything that matches classics like 2001, Alien, and Aliens, and several attempts (Prometheus, Avatar) were made by the same, now nearly elderly, directors who made two of those! Where's young directors making great new sci-fi films? There aren't any. Instead, we just have not-so-serious comic-book movies. We haven't had any classic horror movies like The Shining or The Thing (1982). I'm sorry, but this isn't just older generations sneering at the younger generations; things have really changed, and it coincides with the rise of the internet, and some significant changes in society. Look at movies: movie ticket prices have gotten insane in recent years, and it just isn't that fun an experience now with stupid parents bringing their too-young kids to movies they have no business watching (because the parents are helicopter parents and/or are too cheap to hire a babysitter for their movie night) and the kids end up pitching a screaming fit and annoying everyone, or rude people texting during the movie or talking on their phones, etc. With modern big-screen TVs costing so little, and the availability of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and on-demand internet viewing, it's easier to just stay at home and watch movies there in the comfort of your own home, where you can eat and drink whatever you want without paying extortionate prices and where you can pause to go to the bathroom and rewind if you didn't understand someone. With music, it seems that musical tastes have splintered so much now, combined with record labels not bothering to seek out quality acts to promote, so now we just have a bunch of decades-old bands running around touring their asses off to take advantage of the new wave of nostalgia for classic rock but nothing new coming out that really gains much of a following.