movies

To expand on that;

Y'all are seeing Survivors Bias / Rose Tinted Glasses in action

The bad movies of the less recent past are forgotten or lost to time, even the over hyped ones.

But we're living in the present, so the bad and over hyped of the recent past is still fresh in our minds, and that paints out perception of "they made better movies in the past"

There was the same or more bad shite, just everyone forgets about it