New bad movies are worse than old bad movies.

Before CGI and digital cameras, it still took effort to make a movie, so even bad movies had some degree of craft and care put into them.

Today, CGI has made it so that incompetent filmmakers can do literally anything, so it made it easy to be stupid.

Of course it still takes effort to make a movie, but not nearly to the same degree. Before green screens and CGI, you had to really think about how and what to film. But now, modern technology makes it so filmmakers can just run with the first dumb idea that pops into their head.

A lot of the things that made the classic movies great actually came from having to work around limitations.

For example, in Jaws, they wanted to have the shark show up early, but had trouble getting the animatronic to work, so they did the POV shots which were more effective.

Before CGI, you couldn't just have a big, dumb, pointlessly-long battle scene eat up ten minutes of screen time because you had to actually have hundreds of extras and actually blow things up. It would cost too much. You needed to fill up time with story.

Not so much anymore.

Imagine if they made Aquaman in 1979. Imagine if they tried to do that battle scene at the end with the special effects technology that existed back then. The movie would have cost two billion dollars, assuming they even finished it.

They would have to do something smarter.

As Rich Evans once said while watching Godzilla (1998), "This is when CGI made dumb easy. When you could do limited dumb, you had to have entertainment built around it."