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This is likely being blown way out of proportion. I'm not defending this behavior but the article listed exactly one example: Irish Wish. I'm sure it appeals to a certain audience but it's not what I, personally, would call peak cinema.

My guess is that this guidance was given to a specific writer or person in charge of a specific genre.

>>ryanac+(OP)
I didn’t and never will watch that fillum. But jaysus did the trailer make me laugh so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

>>ryanac+(OP)
Exactly. The one example they use gets a 5.2 on IMDB and 42% on rotten tomatoes.

Not all movies are high art, nor should they be. It’s for a certain audience. We’ve had crappy made-for-TV movies since long before streaming and it hasn’t been the death of cinema.

>>paulgb+u
42% means that some professional critics considered it “fresh.” That’s scary to me.

>>briand+44
To be fair to the professional critics, they are writing prose that helps their readers decide if they will like a movie, not just giving it a good/bad review. Looking at the reviews that RT considers fresh, most of them are honest with their readers about what the movie is (“hallmark”, “formulaic”), but consider it a watchable entry in that genre.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/irish_wish/reviews

>>ryanac+(OP)
The article listed lots of examples... It's an exceptionally long article so you'd be forgiven for missing them, but there are definitely many examples given.

In fact that's actually what my main complaint is about this article - the point it's making is a good one but the article is probably 5x longer than it needs to be.

>>briand+44
Who are you to say that is wrong? Everyone has their own preference for what they like to see in art, and one man's preference is no more correct than another.

>>wavemo+mo
The original link was https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/12/27/netflix-tells-wr... which is probably what your parent is commenting on. Some people complained that that's basically a blogspam article that recycles n+1's article, others disagreed and argued there's value in a focused short article - it seems like mods agree with the complainers and changed the link silently to the current one.

>>sundar+NO
Thanks, that clears up the confusion!