One of the reasons films are popular is by reinforcing a pavlovian behavior, where the movie industry learn what people like to see and give them that in return in a formulaic manner.
It works like a self-fulfilling prophecy, so once the formula of the popular of a given period is found, movies are made repeating those patterns to attract paying costumers (movies are one of the only industries who can mold their customers to become their customers).
Particularly i don't think popular convey into best, sometimes i'ts not even good, its just a Pavlov dog expecting to be entertained. So answering your question if people watch movies to be entertained, yes that industry works, as the profits show. But i disagree this industry create good movies as in the form movies were meant to be.
I don't mind formulaic movies, i don't judge people that want to be entertained as i was one of them and i still am from time to time, but once you dig down in the the cinema rabbit hole your sense of good changes quite a lot.. its like once you learn to taste more fancy food, with a myriad of tastes and colors a macdonald's does not taste the same. Or getting back to program in C after learn to program in D :)
Best as in movies for entertainment purposes, yes. Best as in sophisticated movies, i dont think it's the best system. I don't know what would that be.. and i bet it probably would need to be a "capitalism 2.0" that mixed with other things, but the system is kind of broken and until we really fix this we will need to live with economical crisis from 10 to 10 years..
It works like a self-fulfilling prophecy, so once the formula of the popular of a given period is found, movies are made repeating those patterns to attract paying costumers (movies are one of the only industries who can mold their customers to become their customers).
Particularly i don't think popular convey into best, sometimes i'ts not even good, its just a Pavlov dog expecting to be entertained. So answering your question if people watch movies to be entertained, yes that industry works, as the profits show. But i disagree this industry create good movies as in the form movies were meant to be.
I don't mind formulaic movies, i don't judge people that want to be entertained as i was one of them and i still am from time to time, but once you dig down in the the cinema rabbit hole your sense of good changes quite a lot.. its like once you learn to taste more fancy food, with a myriad of tastes and colors a macdonald's does not taste the same. Or getting back to program in C after learn to program in D :)
Best as in movies for entertainment purposes, yes. Best as in sophisticated movies, i dont think it's the best system. I don't know what would that be.. and i bet it probably would need to be a "capitalism 2.0" that mixed with other things, but the system is kind of broken and until we really fix this we will need to live with economical crisis from 10 to 10 years..