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A lot of us like movies. But many of us also have a problem in finding good new movies. As a group, we're older and much more conservative than the general public. We're a niche market. And most of us don't seem to get out to theaters, so we've become dependent on the streamers and their algorithms. The advertising isn't directed at us. The question becomes how we even find out about the good films that ARE made. There aren't enough of our kind of movies, so we should at least support the ones that do get produced.

Movie threads have been a staple at FR since I've been around (since 2000), but we spend 95 percent of our time doing our @#&^!& Hollywood kabuki dance (which is often justified) and relatively little time acknowledging the good stuff. We complain endlessly that the film industry is a lost cause, while failing to support the good films when they do appear. That's on us. Given that we're outliers, we will tend not to find them unless we look for them. As a minority counterculture, we need to improve our situational awareness.

No one on this thread has yet discussed foreign films, which have a considerable following on FR. I'll just note that a couple of foreign films -- RRR, from India, and Hit the Road, from Iran (?!?!?!) -- are showing up on the vast majority of the current "best of" lists. I'm experimental enough to take a chance on them sometime soon. If anyone has seen them, how about a preview?