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That's because the duds are filtered through time and forgetfulness. Rose tinted glasses of memory.

Nobody remembers the boring movies from their childhood.

Erm I didn't watch those movies when I was a kid, and I certainly wouldn't be able to appreciate them if I had. I watched almost all of them as an adult within the last 4-6 years.

Me too, but that's not the point. We are not watching a random sample of old films, we only watch the old hits.

We are watching a random sample of present films.

I don't think I am watching the old hits! I watch a lot of forgotten trash, and I like that stuff too. It's still way better than capeshit or whatever it being hawked these days. Video nasties by Hammer, weird pirate movies written by Peter Benchley, Charlie Bronson movies, Oliver Reed movies, Doug McClure movies...

A lot of the older film noir stuff I watch is definitely filtered by time: but you can pick any random garbage from between 65 and 75 and it's likely to be decent.

This! Not to mention that at the time, people HATED Ewoks.

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