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Yeah, I can't watch any of them any more it ruins the nostalgia and reminds me how dumb I must have been. I can't stand to watch most mainstream stuff any more though. The second the plot goes stupid I turn anything off. I've wasted far too much time due to investment banker produced media. First hint is all I need.
Investment banker media - that perfectly sums up all the modern popular trash!
And fuck you marvel
I totally get what you mean. I wonder wheter writing a decent plot/characters/dialogues is really that impossible or whether there's some other issues at play.
I mean, book authors routinely manage to do pretty good writing, why can't we have that for film as well?
I will humbly submit that perhaps you are watching the wrong films.
Try watching movies/shows from around the world, you'll be amazed. I gave up on USA shows some time ago and never looked back.
That is true. The issue is only that it's mostly hard to find these movies. It's much harder finding movies from my own country than US movies.
Best-sellers tend to be shite, though. And most of what you're talking about as "mainstream stuff" is the movie-making equivalent of best-seller books.
Don't look at the heavily-marketed stuff. That's like the "best-sellers" rack at the bookstore (or the "Recommended for you" section of book-selling websites, equivalently). Look for the stuff that doesn't have billion-dollar budgets, big-name stars and advertising campaigns that cost more than many small countries produce in a year.