I couldn’t disagree with a post more. Where to start? For one, there’s so many amazing films. Instead of listing directors or films, I’ll list movements: Frenc

I couldn’t disagree with a post more. Where to start? For one, there’s so many amazing films. Instead of listing directors or films, I’ll list movements: French New Wave, Italian Neorealism, Parallel Cinema, Iranian New Wave, German New Wave, Taiwanese New Wave, New Queer Cinema, New Hollywood, Cinema Du Look. All of these have 10-20 films worth watching if not more. Then expand your search to masters like Kurosawa or Bergman who churned out films, yes some worse than others, but a lot of really amazing ones! Then look at all of the talented people making film today, both the established (Bong Joon Ho, Olivier Assayas, Lucrecia Martel) and the new. There’s an incredible wealth of great film out there. Honestly the author sounds like they’re in the false confidence part of the Dunning Kruger effect. Just because you know a few tropes and the standard plot archetypes doesn’t mean you’re above film. Lemme just point out that nowhere in this post did the author discuss the visual aspect of film. Or the editing, sound, really anything about film other than plot. If movies were Wikipedia plot summaries I’d agree that film is tired and repetitive. But what distinguishes a director is not the story beats but how they use camera, light, sound, editing and actors to make the narrative.