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To: Cowgirl of Justice
I see on streaming channels that there are so many 2023 and 2024 releases but not one single good movie worth watching.

Agree entirely. There's so much drivel being made. Unimaginative. Uncreative. Uninteresting, and often woke and preachy. But there's so much of it. It's like trading beef Wellington for an almost unlimited supply of head cheese.

46 posted on 03/25/2024 8:01:44 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup
But there's so much of it. It's like trading beef Wellington for an almost unlimited supply of head cheese.

That's embedded in the streaming model, and it's a big part of the problem. The streamers are in the subscription business, not the movie business, and they are global platforms that gravitate towards lowest common denominator generic content for generic global audiences. They also segment their viewing audiences into myriad subgroups, and their marketing strategy is to manage a content firehose that pumps something new to each group every week or every month. (And "new" doesn't actually mean a new film; it means new to this platform, even if it has been available in some other streamers' silos for three years.) Apart from a handful of tentpoles, very few of these films get much promotion, and often none. They just show up on the landing page as "newly added," linger there for a few days or a couple of weeks, and then disappear deep into the catalogue -- often before you've even noticed that they're there.

On top of that, the streamers' algorithms serve you up a steady diet of what you have been watching, so it all gets very repetitive very fast. No wonder people get bored and conclude that everything is stale, unimaginative and uninteresting.

Good films are still being made, but it's getting harder and harder for them to get noticed and break out.

48 posted on 03/25/2024 8:21:00 AM PDT by sphinx
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