Why I'm Disappointed with New Movies

Today's movies are mediocre to the last degree. The reason I say this is because it seems the lines have been used time and time again and they are just being recycled. Whatever happened to the Godfather, Raging Bull, and even Goodfellas, which was released in 1990. It seems for about the past decade and a half there have been no just absolutely amazing films released. Comedy nowadays seems to me to be stale. I'll give you an example; when Juno was released a bunch of other Juno-esque movies were released. These movies include Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and they follow the same pseudo-independent vein as Juno. Today's movies just don't seem to have that special something as older movies. Obviously some movies that have been released recently are pretty decent, for example look at No Country For Old Men, or Slumdog Millionaire. These movies are perfect examples of great movies. Today's movies follow what is popular, when so-called "independent" movies end up being successful such as Slumdog Millionaire, and The Wrestler the entire cinematic community goes apeshit. They talk of an independent movie revolution. What independent movies? Slumdog Millionaire was directed by Danny Boyle who did 28 Days Later and the highest grossing U.K. film of all time (Trainspotting). and The Wrestler was directed by Daron Aronofsky who did Requiem for a Dream and Pi. I don't mean to pick on modern cinema but at the same time let movies be movies and if they are successful give them the congratulations that are due to them and that is it.