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counter point, think of how much more interesting movies would be if there were only like 3 a year and the rest of your time you were waiting for one

i call this model: everything before 1990

i'm not appealing to tradition, i'm just saying what if our focus is the source of enjoyment... what if 1000 things to pick for dinner is exhausting but 1 that you think about all day always ends up good

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To be pedantic, before 1990 there were nearly 5000 movies released: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/v1fsld/oc_... (based on IMDB's dataset).

For a better comparison, you could look at China which only allows for a few dozen foreign films per year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#Quota...); which films depends on whether the publisher thinks it'll be successful there, whether it passes China's censors, and whether China was involved in its production. It's a different audience though, for example the Warcraft film bombed in the west but was hugely popular in China, possibly because of the relative scarcity of western films there?

Can't you still replicate the experience by only watching the top n blockbuster of the year? Spoiler: it'll mostly be mainstream slop.

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