Over the last 5 years my hit rate is about 2 good movie releases/yr. the rest are just awful.

Currently working my way through a list of top 250 movies listed on a popular review website.

Watched Once Upon a Time in America last night. Four hours long. Never dragged for a moment. And the cinematography was gorgeous. Characterization and story all interesting. People struggling with life and themselves. In one way or another, destroying themselves.

Likewise, saw Ikiru (1952) last week. Wonderful.

I liked Dune part one and sounds like the 2nd will be great. But honestly, I suppose Hollywood movies are made for normies, just corporate advertising/propaganda to a braindead masses. Analogous to Huxley's 'Soma'. Digitized. Digital soma.

Open sourced btc backed movies anyone?