Comment by dangus

I do sometimes think about slow burn movies and how they are hard to find outside of Oscar bait type of pictures.

Just looking at kids movies, something like My Neighbor Totoro has many scenes involving ambient sound with no dialog or background music, and it’s a major contrast compared to today’s 3D dopamine festivals.

On the other hand, that might just be survivorship bias. I’m cherry picking the best kids movie of its decade and comparing it to Boss Baby 2.

Finally, I’d also say my default read of articles like this are that they’re probably idle “the kids these days are bad” concern bait.

A professor complaining that his students won’t do their homework is not new and it’s not news. It is a statistical certainty.

Avatar 3 is making a billion dollars on people willing to sit through a 2.5 hour movie.