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MabusIncarnate posted...

I agree, but I think it goes both ways. I think too many people wrote off Black Swan as some kind of chick flick being it's focused around a ballet dancer, but it had some many strange and dark undertones with a thrilling conclusion.

So many people also write off indie video games entirely when there's gems in those as well. How many people actually played games like Headlander, or What Remains of Edith Finch? Both were 10/10 titles for me, and hardly anyone knows what they even are and more haven't played them. It's like anything, if you want results, you need to work for it. There is stuff out there still worth investing time into.

People need to be willing to go outside their comfort zone more in media. Most people's only exposure to what new movies are coming out are the trailers they see while watching another big name mainstream movie, so of course the trailers they see for the most part are going to be more big name mainstream movies, usually by the same company.

Also, people writing off entire genres is a problem too. "Oh, I don't like horror movies, they're all the same", "Nah, that's a chick flick", "I don't really like super serious dramas". There's such diversity of film in those genres with some amazing gems that you could find with just 10 minutes of googling, but people just wont do.

It's so easy to find innovative and different films thanks to the internet, both old ones and ones releasing, but people wont take the couple of minutes it takes to even look up upcoming releases for the year and read a couple film descriptions to see if a movie they've never heard the name of might be worth a watch.
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