1924 World Series footage

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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Of course Barbie is a great example of fluff. But it wasn’t nominated for a single academy award. Try comparing the artistic achievement of Oppenheimer to moves of the 70s.

Of course, there are examples of great movies (and music, and TV, and books, etc.) and lousy ones in every era. "Oppenheimer" would have fit right in the 1970s, that's why it shocked people that it did so well. From Patton, Godfathers I and II, French Connection, Clockwork Orange, through Chinatown, The Conversation, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Animal House, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars, Blazing Saddles, Network, to Halloween, Apocalypse Now (the original, not the crappy "director's cut,") Alien, etc., the 1970s is regarded as the last golden age of Hollywood. Any comparison you try to make between that decade of movies and more recent ones is going to lose hands down, I believe. But we digress.