>>If you ask people why they don't go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven't seen before >I have literally nev

>>If you ask people why they don't go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven't seen before >I have literally never heard someone say this There's a huge site dedicated to TV & Film tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FilmTropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FilmTropes Not saying tropes are bad, but once someone has seen a lot of narrative entertainment the patterns become pretty obvious. They're generally more acceptable if done in very creative ways. For example, Avatar was fully tropey, but the production was wholly unique.