Two thoughts: 1. There is a phenomena that happens to people that get immersed in an art form, they stop seeing the art as a whole, and only see the parts. For

Two thoughts: 1. There is a phenomena that happens to people that get immersed in an art form, they stop seeing the art as a whole, and only see the parts. For a musician listening to music, they will start picking out their instrument and maybe the percussion, effectively ignoring the rest of the song. After doing this for a while, it becomes automatic, and then becomes real work to be able to hear the work as a whole. I suspect this has happened to this writer with movies. 2. I want to see his list of movies. I want to know how far back his movie watching has gone. According to google there have been 579 Best Picture nominees over the 92 years the Academy Awards have been running. Has he seen all of those? I admit, Best Picture isn't a standard to rank good movies, but there are some real gems that didn't win. (Also, how many of the Hammer Films has he seen? There is 158, many are delightfully bad.) I grew up watching old movies (30's - 50's) One of my favorite movies is "It Happened One Night" from 1934. I think these old sliver screen movies are better due to writing. To be successful back then, you couldn't hide a bad script behind explosions and cgi, you had to tell a compelling story. Nowadays mass appeal relies not on telling a good story, but on how many big name actors can you get into cosplay suits, fly around the screen, and blow up buildings.