[TheOtherHobbes]

The brain is a data compression engine and it's designed to ignore/"not enjoy" anything too repetitive and predictable.

You can get novelty from more extreme experiences and from complex experiences.

Franchise movies tend to go for more extremes (more characters, more CGI, more superficial complexity over an unchanging core), while art movies aim for complexity, implication, depth, and weirdness/unfamiliarity - to generate appealing unfamiliar cognitive load.

Critics are usually looking for the latter while typical franchise audiences (teens/twenties) are looking for the former.

So yes - there's going to be a disconnect. It's very hard to see a franchise movie through the eyes of a 15 year old when you're 60.

[wolverine876]

> The brain is a data compression engine and it's designed to ignore/"not enjoy" anything too repetitive and predictable.

I generally agree, but that is not at all the only way our brains enjoy or experience things. To imply otherwise is a vast oversimplification. Again, see my example above of seeing the same play - same thing, different experience.