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Kailani B.'s avatar

Great post! I agree with a lot of your points. I've been going to older movies and tv shows of late because there are so few new things that are any good. I've also found some fantastic foreign stuff, like Studio Ghibli and K-dramas. Hollywood needs to realize that their job is to entertain and as soon as the creators start slipping on the brass knuckles of messaging, the majority of the audience will leave. That's probably why stuff like Top Gun Maverick did so well: it was just an entertaining movie. We've reached the point where they have more than enough data to show what's working, so it'll be interesting to see what they do going forward.

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The Brothers Krynn's avatar

Really great essay, am really impressed by it Joshua, mind if I give it another read over, recommend it to a friend and see about doing a supporting/piece or response essay to help boost it via my brother's Alliance Authors' Stack?

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