I feel like you can't really watch trailers anymore nowadays, they tend to give away a lot of the story already. For example, I watched the trailer for the Meg 2 and it already gave away most of the twists and who would die. I know that they have to try and hype you up but it sucks when they basically spoil the movie.

I actually enjoyed cocaine bear. That one felt like a breath of fresh air to the usual garbo. Was genuinely a fun film to watch where it felt like you were also watching people have fun making it.

Your average movie goer isn’t capable of telling from a trailer if a movie is going to be garbage or not.

Of course not. A trailer is just an ad. That's like expecting to be able to tell if a smartwatch is good after watching an ad.

So a possible solution could be professional/expert reviews. We need to be able to trust them though (no bought reviews etc.) and they shouldn't be snobbish against pure entertainment movies. Unfortunately this will only work if people actively seek out those reviews (at least I can't think of a way to actively push the reviews to the consumers), which does not work as long as movies are consumed in order to not think. Which they will be as long as they are as shitty and brainless as many are right now.

Cocaine Bear was freaking awesome! Sometimes people don’t need an amazingly deep experience and just want to relax and enjoy themselves and have a good time.

I would argue your second statement in A) assumes that a movie can objectively be rated good or bad. Plus it also seems to claim to know exactly what people want to see from a movie. Never s fan when someone seems to say, "I know better than you do what you like."

I'll agree a trailer doesn't always do a good job. But to claim a person can't tell if what they watched is good is hardly a statement a same person would make. Possibly a narcissist would say it. Or someone else full of themselves.

There is obviously technique that can be graded, but that doesn't make a movie.

Um... You shut your mouth. Cocaine Bear was fantastic.

yes, mario didn't even say "here we go" or "wahoo" or "mama mia".

Maybe we just need to let Hollywood do the AI thing for a while so people can see how creatively bankrupt the execs are.

I don't think this will end like you think it will. Last time we had a writer's strike, we got ~~reality~~ "reality" TV, a cursed genre that continues to grow more popular and more vapid than ever.

One of my biggest regrets in life is studying storytelling and scriptwriting because it made me aware of the freaking save the cat thing and ruined movies (and a lot of modern storytelling) forever for me. Well, "biggest regret" may be a bit of hyperbole, but you get it.

I can't watch a movie that is following the model non-cynically, and since most movies do follow it, well...

It's also made me dislike when an industry tries to push that there's an objectively correct way of doing something in an artform, but that's another story entirely.

I hadn't heard of the "Save the cat" method before. Hello rabbit-hole.

Actors didn't write or direct or produce the movie. They just act in whatever is written, directed, and produced.

Comments like this contribute nothing. Sure it's true but it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand and is unnecessary.

Instead let's have a discussion, do you think Hollywood has had a stream of Garbage content lately?

You didn't watch Chuck back in the mid 2000s?