But how can we find the true gems without seeing them all?
... Watching trailers? ... LoL - but you are right, it is not easy to find the gems without watching the non-gems. I noticed that I don't need to watch a whole movie in order to find out if it's a good script and character build up. Mostly, ten or fifteen minutes are enough to find out.
The high amount of bad movies are elsewhere called "Storytelling entropy".
You can sense whether a message is only being delivered because you want to deliver one at all or whether it is one that is convincing.
Entropy is evident in the fact that big budgets try to mix everything with everything that has ever been successful. They mix genres and former high performer flicks together, the heroes look like heroes and speak like heroes, but have no recognisable path of suffering behind them and are "just like that", without any recognisable reason. They have no mentors and no arduous journeys, no narrated failures, so they seem hollow and insubstantial. Even the sufferers suffer for little recognisable reason, it is as if the suffering itself is "just there".
Entropy, if I have understood it correctly, means that clearly distinguishable elements become so intermingled that at some point it becomes impossible to distinguish between them. Like dark blue ink colour, which, if you pour it into a glass of water, can be clearly recognised by streaks. But if it has been mixed with the water long enough, everything turns light blue.
For a good story though, the viewer needs to identify and distinguish the characters and their unique path in life.
I thought I was alone in this!
😄 not at all. I love movies and there are still many people who love them, too. The younger generation though seems not very interested in movies. They watch "clips" or play games. ... I am still not certain about the meme-thing. Can one understand a meme without understanding a plot?
I know you have a keen eye for storytelling and it's nuances
Thank you for the compliment. In the moment I am not so much into storytelling myself. It probably will come back, though. Have fun in the contest!