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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

High budget movies are shit

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Movies that are very expensive to make tend to be bad, because they have to make returns and thus appeal to a large amorphous population without any specialization, i.e. the lowest common denominator but in TV Tropes terminology rather than mathematics: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LowestCommonDenominator.
See e.g.:
  • Primer (2004)
  • The Man From Earth (2007)
  • Pirates (2005)
Looking down the largest flops of all time list didn't help much, only Heaven's gate appears reasonable from the top 20.
On TV Tropes: it's Popular Now It Sucks.

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