How peaceful were those movies in the mid 2000s

[Fortune_favors_the_bold]

Smart enough to be appreciated from a modern public, deep enough to mean something for those with a decent IQ and no lecturing or woke crap.

Sometime I surf on imdb.com and miss those.

Pity that they decided to hyde movie rating by demographics recently to "avoid wrong evaluations".

 

[corrector]

I visited the cinema around that time to watch movies (ie peak cinema attendance was like 2002-2003, but still visited quite a bit going towards 2006). Some gems-movies in the mid-00s will be V for Vendetta (2005), and Children of Men (2006), that really stood out as movies. Also Revenge of the Sith (2005) was the best pre-quel StarWars movie, War of the Worlds (2005) was great too. In terms of zeitguist red-pill movies I'd have to say Hitch (2005), 40 Year Virgin (2005) were both interesting around that time. Think I watched all of the great movies in cinema around this time.

As of now, I've stopped visiting cinema since the pandemic and stick to streamers (which I have no time to watch movies there either). Maybe I had too much idle time on my hands when I was younger.

What movies were focused on around this time? The world was not too great around this time, don't forget you had that 9/11 and War with Iraq and all of the drama with Bush, and all of that still fresh in people's minds around this time. It's not as carefree as pre-9/11.

 

[Solomon]

I remember in the early 2000s

Watching Matrix Reloaded at the time my mind was blown by the Neo Vs Mr Smith brawl
I watched the scene recently again yes the tech was even back then sucked by the fight scene itself is cinematic history it's something you will never see again

I also watched The Harry Potter movies and Spiderman ones back in theatre I used to go a lot. I stopped going after quarantine I've only been to the movies once

 

[corrector]

I remember in the early 2000s

Watching Matrix Reloaded at the time my mind was blown by the Neo Vs Mr Smith brawl
I watched the scene recently again yes the tech was even back then sucked by the fight scene itself is cinematic history it's something you will never see again

I also watched The Harry Potter movies and Spiderman ones back in theatre I used to go a lot. I stopped going after quarantine I've only been to the movies once

I remember watching Matrix Reloaded in 2003. I visited the cinema for this movie and must have watched it multiple times on the same day (I would watch it, buy another movie ticket, watch it again, buy another movie ticket, watch it again, etc...), look a ride on a newly built subway line, and drank a bottle of wine when I got home and hit the sack trying to get that movie out of my mind. The wierd twins in that movie were creepy.

I watched the Spiderman in 2002 with a girl friend. There were a number of movies I remember watching at that time with her.

The first movie I watched solo in cinema was Vanilla Sky back in 2002 (didn't see the whole movie until I borrowed a DVD and watched it in 2017, where at that point I understood the movie enough to watch it to the end and it clicked as to what it was about). I remember walking in the local cinema, buying a ticket, the attendent said "enjoy the show", another young girl working there, and I remember walking in and seeing a large screen and sitting inside. That was the beginning of a cinema hobby that pretty much lasted up to 2009 but had resurgences throughout the 2010s until it officially ended with the Pandemic.

I was different as a younger guy at this time. I really didn't go into hyper-analytical mode as far as movies were concerned and generally would just go whatever is out there. If the trailer was catchy enough, or if happened to be playing, then I'd just walk into it blind, or even talk to the cinema attendant as to what are some good pics there.

In modern times there is a sophistication around this that wasn't there before where I just tend to be hyper-analytical about any movie/TV-show I'm looking at, looking at video-reviews on youtube and even watch-alongs with the same movie on youtube, and have a habit of buying hot movies as soon as its digitally available. These and other factors have just cooled off any interest in visiting a cinema since that old carefree attitude of just going out to watch a movie just for the sake of leaving the house and going somewhere, and watching whatever is playing, is just gone now.