Why does everyone overreact to bad swings in entertainment?

[muppet maniac]

Reviving an old thread here, but since we're on the subject of terrible music, this is something we can all overreact to:

 

[Drtooth]

Yawn...

Disposable. We'll all forget it in a week.

Most pop Music is Disposable. Unless it has star feature drawn by a big musical celebrity, everyone will forget it if it's a one hit wonder.

 

[Scooterforever]

This thread is sort of all over the place, but the general question seems to be "has pop culture gotten better or worse?" I believe music has gotten objectively worse. That's what I believe, that's all I'll say on the matter. On the other hand, TV is better than it ever has been. Sure, the basic channels still have their usual crappy sitcoms and reality tv shows, but we've also had some of the greatest shows of all time in the last few years, like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones. Also, if we're not excluding foreign imports (nobody said we were) there's the BBC's Sherlock and Doctor Who. I could go on. As for movies, sure, most everything anymore is a remake or a sequel, but that makes it all the sweeter when a truly original film comes out (Cabin in The Woods, Wreck It Ralph), and as noted in another thread, not all remakes and sequels are bad (Nolan's Batman Trilogy, The new Evil Dead, and let's not forget The Avengers was really a sequel to Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor). And cartoons aren't so bad; while I haven't seen it, the new TMNT seems to be gaining traction, and Earth's Mightiest Heroes had some pretty great episodes. To quote Eric Idle, "always look on the bright side of life (or pop culture)."

 

[Drtooth]

There will always be good stuff and terrible stuff and a lot of stuff in between. We just tend to nostalgically remember the good things and completely forget the bad things. We may remember one or two terrible things because they were so bad, but you'll hear more people waxing over the great stuff from a certain time period than complaining about something really stupid from that era. We'll always hear how E.T. was a cinematic triumph and never really hear how Mac and Me killed brain cells (unless we go to a Nostalgia Critic-esque site, that is). We'll remember The Avengers and the Dark Knight movies in 10-20 years, we'll completely forget about Jack and Jill or..... uh... funny. I can't even remember a big example.

 

[Dominicboo1]

Waaaahhhh! Everybody's being sooooo pessimistic!!! Waaaahhhhhh! It's ruining this entire forum with negativity! Booooooo-HOOOOOOOO!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

We should be obtimistic! (Shirley Temple comes in and randomly sings Be Optimistic as I join in)