https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsPopularNowItSucks on <TV Tropes>.

This is true: <high budget movies are shit>. Just TV Trops can articular it infinitely better than <Ciro Santilli> can.

Related:
* <enter through the narrow gate>


It's Popular Now It Sucks

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One of the first 1 million USD (zero artistic value) porn movie. And also <high budget movies are shit>[a piece of shit]! Hotter porn has been shot in kitchens around the world using <iPhones>.

<IMDb> entry: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477457/[].

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Pirates (2005)

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Pop music cannot be good by definition: any <art> that appeals to the masses (Popular!) has to be a boring watered down version of everything, and therefore boring shit. Just like the movies: <high budget movies are shit>.

Until maybe one day we can actually get a <free gifted education>[decent education for everyone].


Pop music

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<high budget movies are shit>[Low budget].

Things that can be understood are boring.

<Aaron Swartz> agrees: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained "Next week we'll explain Primer." He never did though :'-(


Primer (2004)

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<high budget movies are shit>[Way, way, way too much running and fighting].

Also way too idealistic :<Sliding scale of idealism vs. cynicism>.

Also the good/evil is way too black and white.

If only everything was instead funny and charming and intelligent like the very first part in the Shire... that section and others interspersed withing the running are <good film> level.


The Hobbit

The Hobbit (film series)

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<high budget movies are shit>[Low budget].

Good theory of <Jesus>.

List of similar feeling films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYwFoanrNg 11 Underrated Hard Sci-fi Movies by Marvelous Videos (2021)


The Man From Earth (2007)

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>: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LowestCommonDenominator[].

See e.g.:
* <Primer (2004)>
* <The Man From Earth (2007)>
* <Pirates (2005)>

Looking down the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs[largest flops of all time list] didn't help much, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(film)[Heaven's gate] appears reasonable from the top 20.

On <TV Tropes>: <it's Popular Now It Sucks>.


Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

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