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> When 95% of critics tell you to see a movie that only 10% of people enjoy, something's broken.

Well... expectations shift between a movie ticket and a bucket of popcorn for 10€ or the same for 30€.

Cinema has gone really damn expensive, and loaded with ads to boot - but movie critics don't get that crap experience, they get exclusive previews. It's literally a different world.

My GF adds other points: while the audience as a general loves "typical plot" movies, critics who have to see 20 movies based on the same formula a year will be sick of it.

>>mschus+(OP)
> critics who have to see 20 movies based on the same formula a year will be sick of it.

Imagine applying that metric to any other job.

"Fuck, this is the 20th React component I've had to build...I'll just do it shitty instead."

>>mschus+(OP)
There are 7 possible plots according to Shakespeare or 1 according to Marvel. I believe 2^7 is therefore 127 possible movies or books - assuming there is one with every single plot element and including porn with zero plot :-)

Clearly though their is more to a movie or book than just the plot.

>>chinab+Oq
Since you explicitly include the empty plot, I do have to mention that 2^7 is 128.