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95% of everything has always been crap. We live in a golden age where we have enough non crap at our disposal that we never have to watch anything awful if we don't want. You will, however, have to look for it -- it's scattered among a dozen services and you'll need to engage with reviews and social media to find what you're looking for, most likely.
There's also a filter of time thing going on, where we forget the shitty media of the past. 1992 gave us Reservoir Dogs, A Few Good Men and My Cousin Vinny. It also gave us Pet Seminary 2, BeBe's Kids and Love Potion Number 9. So was it a good year or a bad year?
This isn't a well formulated idea but something that's been kicking around in my head for a while. There have always been bad movies and TV but I think what is somewhat new is that the blockbuster films are so big budget that it's always "a good movie" in that its well made but the substance is always lacking. It's kind of a bizarre and unsettling feeling watching a well produced 200 million dollar movie that kinda... sucks? Is boring? Because movie magic has become so commodified its hard for a movie to ride on flash and sparkle alone.