good point! And you're right, I do have those preferences. I guess I wasn't lamenting my own situation (I personally feel blessed to have as much art available

good point! And you're right, I do have those preferences. I guess I wasn't lamenting my own situation (I personally feel blessed to have as much art available to me as I do). I was trying to make a pretty awkward point, which was that even though I understand my conscious preferences aren't shared by most audience members, I think a failure to "satisfice" on some features of artistic quality might be reducing the value of the product for everyone, and hence the profitability of blockbuster movie studios. It's a hypothesis, anyway. edit: re-reading I see that I used "movie-going" to mean "going to the Regal Cinema 17 with extended family and seeing a Hollywood movie," which makes it sound like I'm throwing going to movies period under the bus.