Something that differentiates the audience of 1979 from the audience of 2022, I think. Or even the audience of 2010, probably. > the audience ... come at first

Something that differentiates the audience of 1979 from the audience of 2022, I think. Or even the audience of 2010, probably. > the audience ... come at first for the war scenes, but they find accepting this “at first” difficult: they need an ending, a dénouement, of intelligibility that will retrospectively justify those scenes. The Marvel Films are the offender that I'm thinking of, but I'm sure other films are just as bad. There just isn't much substance; Maybe 10 minutes of story and then it's mostly explosions and "cool fights" or whatever, and the average viewer is there for exactly that.