Many of them are.
It isn’t necessarily that the actors in the new movies aren’t good, but that with classics (especially comedy) they were frequently good AND perfect for their roles.
Screen chemistry is neigh on impossible to manufacture.
Add in that modern Hollywood is exceptionally capable at the mechanics of movie making but lackluster at story telling and it’s a recipe for disaster.
(I joke that Bay and Jackson are going to collaborate, and for the first time bring exploding screen flare to the big screen)
Good scream chemistry at best is a hit or miss in most movies.
The best screen chemistry, in my opinion the best ever, was that between William Powell and Myrna Loy, 16 movies together, a record that will never be broken.
I never cared much for a lot of the Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn pictures, some were great, some were not.
In any event I rarely see much real good chemistry in today’s films.
“(I joke that Bay and Jackson are going to collaborate, and for the first time bring exploding screen flare to the big screen)”
Don’t even want to know who “Bay and Jackson” are.