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> It's wasted effort in my opinion. Not financially; these movies earn a fucktillion dollars. Artistically yes, it's boring at best. But these are not artisti

• Joeboy 4y ago
  > I don't quite understand why so many folks keep watching them. A lot of people don't seem aware that other movies exist. Which is odd as the VFX-laden, action-heavy franchise blockbusters everybody complains about are only a small proportion of movies that are made.
• fedeb95 4y ago
  That's true, however if the majority of movies are like that, most people will watch them, shifting movie culture toward this kind of movies. Sure, niches could form, but given a movie requires a lot of money, that's really hard. Besides action/blockbuster movies, also so called "artistic" movies are generally worse in quality than the past (I don't think this is just nostalgia). One related thought: doesn't make sense that every year someone has to win an oscar. There should be years without a winner at all. That's not allowed, so winning an oscar doesn't really set a quality goal but it's bounded by a year timeframe