It's much more than just "being in a rut". You can clearly see how social media and "viral"-ism has changed the way movies are produced and shown. In recent yea

It's much more than just "being in a rut". You can clearly see how social media and "viral"-ism has changed the way movies are produced and shown. In recent years when I go watch a mainstream action movie, it's like a deafening blur of post process filters and carefully crafted scene after scene where everything is manipulated via the computer to a degree where you can no longer even look away from the focal point and discover details and enjoy watching a movie multiple times - because now if you look elsewhere than the producers want you to look, there is nothing there anymore. It's all CGI garbage or empty sets, covered by CGI made shadows/lighting/fog/whathaveyou. AI in the movie industry will absolutely accelerate the race to the bottom, and make mainstream entertainment even more shallow and empty. In fact it's probably why movies nowadays are like 2h to 2h30 when they used to be 1h30. They're so shallow and empty and filled with noise that they have to stretch them out so it feels like you actually watched something. edit: on further thought, maybe you know, movies are over? I mean clearly as much as I hate it, tiktok's success is showing us that people get far more stimulation from watching feeds - or maybe it is indeed since COVID & Netflix etc there is even fewer incentive to sit in a dark room with lots of other noisy people munching on their popcorns and kicking your seat while to try to enjoy a movie. My point being I doubt that the movie industry will recover.