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by WalterBright 804 days ago
I've watched thousands of movies. While they are not identical, and a very few rise above the usual, they are fungible. Action movies are interchangeable, murder mysteries are interchangeable, romcoms are interchangeable, and on and on. Once you've seen a few, they follow predictable paths.

There's even a formula for them:

https://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/dp...

Definitely interchangeable.

Similarly with genre books. As a kid, I decided to read all of Ian Fleming's James Bond books. But after 5 or 6, I noticed that they all followed a formula, and got bored with them and never continued. with the series.

Yes, all houses are different, but the differences are largely superficial. You'd be happy living in any of thousands of homes in your locality.