He’s absolutely correct, except it wasn’t the most complete year, just perhaps the last year to be so complete. For example, 1987 was an incredibly complete year, and one could argue the films were way better. So what happened? Digital began to take over film in the early 2000s, and along with it long established production methodologies. DCI was formed in 2002. Netflix launched in 2007 and by 2017 streaming began to take over as the primary delivery mechanism. Perhaps not coincidentally the #MeToo movement in 2017 exposed industry abuses, leading to reforms and more diverse storytelling. Increased focus on representation followed. No look at where we are, and what movies have become. Can the genie be put back in the bottle? Can we go back as easily as he suggests, or are we too far gone culturally?

@AVARY I mean, 1987 was WAY better than 1998, and you could certainly make the argument that 1977 was even better than 1987. I'm not quite ready to make that argument, but surely someone could make it. SORCERER alone...

@AVARY Ahem

Do you ever wonder how much foreign influence had an effect on destroying Hollywoods international propaganda influence. If you look at that timeline the drop really seems to coincide with Chinas messaging on not adopting democracy or desire to adopt democracy? Could Hollywoods demise be collateral in broader Cold War conflict?

@AVARY 1982 for me Road Warrior (US release) Poltergeist E.T. Porky's First Blood The Thing Blade Runner 48 Hours

@AVARY Really? You gonna complain about that this year? x.com/i/status/20053…

@AVARY Hi Roger. Rules Of Attraction was great. How was it like working with Jay Baruchel?

@AVARY You're 1000% right... Harvey Weinstein and his jew egg dingus need to make a comeback 😎 hide ya ficus' 🎥

@AVARY Such an interesting metric. Quality, we have lost

@AVARY I agree with you about 1987. My Life as a Dog, The Last Emperor, The Untouchables, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Robocop, Predator, Near Dark, three or four excellent new films every single week, or so it seemed.

@AVARY In 1998 Universal Pictures released Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I don’t really see that happening again from a major studio.

@AVARY Mainstream movies in every genre that all of us saw or knew enough to reference in jokes and memes? Like even if I didnt see the Parent Trap I knew it meant divorced parents being tricked into getting back together. I have no idea what the hell Jay Kelly or Ella Mckay is.

@AVARY I’ve been running through my VHS collection. Im tired of everything out. Plus im also tired of super HD screens. I recently saw this film and got transported to that time. I think I was born in the wrong era

@AVARY Wouldn't more "diverse storytelling" as you noted entail more "complete" years?

@AVARY 2018 was the most complete year cause Den of Thieves came out.

@AVARY All I know is I must make my movie. It’s literally my mission and possibly my only movie. It’s about my parents falling in love in 1990s Las Vegas.

@AVARY Horror was practically non existent in the 90's Having been neutered in the late 80's-90's through censorship. H20 is a great example of how little was there. Could be we're seeing that rebound now?

@AVARY 1999 was an awesome year too

@AVARY I've heard better arguments for 99, but yeah the late 90s/early 2000s was the last classical era in Hollywood history. I just so happened to be working at a theater from 98-99 and saw a lot of the films for free.😊

@AVARY Passionnant

@AVARY 1999 was a great year for movies too.

@AVARY Collapse of physical media profits on dvd is what lead to end of indie movies. Before you could make money back on rentals and dvd revenue so risk was less. Today w streaming less risks are taken

@AVARY I think too far gone, sadly. Amazing, because at the time I was going almost every weekend to watch movies at the cinema, I not for once suspected all of this might be pretty much gone in just a couple of decades.

Perhaps I should have been much stricter, but a larger list better shows off 2007. I haven’t added them by category, but you’ll recognize many and know their category: There Will Be Blood, The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Michael Clayton, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Into the Wild, Zodiac, 3:10 to Yuma, Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Ratatouille, American Gangster, Juno, La Vie en Rose, Superbad, 300, Beowulf, Persepolis, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Eastern Promises, Sunshine, Lust Caution, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Rescue Dawn, Gone Baby Gone, Breach, Once, Death at a Funeral, Taxi to the Dark Side, Lars and the Real Girl, Harry Potter 5, I Am Legend, Transformers, Charlie Wilson’s War, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Fracture, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Grindhouse, The Orphanage, A Mighty Heart, Walk Hard, The Counterfeiters, The Visitor, The Man From Earth, The Simpsons Movie, Disturbia, in The Shadow of the Moon, The Great Debaters, The Kite Runner, We Own The Night, The Savages, Enchanted, In The Valley of Elah, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

@AVARY If digital had existed in 1987, the visual language would have changed drastically and much earlier.