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by watwut 2106 days ago
> Characters talk past each other constantly.

To be fair, that is something that definitely often happen in real life.

That aside, I find HBO or netflix series writing much better then the one in movies. The movies became too formulaic over time, relying on the same simplified character stereotypes over and over. The movie plots also tend to move in predictable streamlined ways. The film writing tend to follow stiffing rules.

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movies became too formulaic over time

Don't forget about the endless reboots. E.g. Batman in film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_in_film

1940s (before my time)

1966 movie

1987+ reboot with 4 movies

2005+ reboot with 3 movies

2021 apparently yet another reboot

I probably got some of that wrong, because there's just too many of them. And I probably missed some. And that doesn't include the "extended universe".

Sigh. Can't they find any other stories to tell?

I think the same applies to e.g. Spider Man? Countless reboots? Don't people get reboot fatigue? Or does enough time pass that the movies simply appeal to a new audience?

Many of us would be proud to have built systems that go > 15 years between reboots.