“ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.”
Had you done this two decades ago using the equivalent (blockbuster), you probably would have felt the same. What I do think is manifestly different now is that we don’t have nearly as accessible good film criticism. It still exists, but it’s mixed in with a bunch of internet dross. Filtering mechanisms have always been essential to life online and our current ones massively favor eyeballs over quality.