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comment by cgod

I don't see many movies and the ones I do see often aren't the ones I would choose. Most the time it feels like they didn't make a movie to tell a story but instead worked up a story because they had a movie to make.

I can tolerate a shitty story that makes no sense if it's told in ninety minutes, but so many movies seems to push two hours or more.

My wife likes superhero movies and while some aren't bad I won't ever re-watch one. I'd rather go to a kid movie with my daughter than watch a superhero flick. I hate enough of what I see in films that when it's decided what movie we will go to, the people who really like movies get to choose and the cycle of me not liking movies perpetuates itself. I'd rather see birdman than the Avengers movie. Sucks that I'll probably see more of the 70 franchise installments than I will movies that were made because someone had a story to tell which was compelling enough for people to take the risk and endure the hardship of getting it made.