movies

One factor that is often overlooked in these discourses is why?

I mean, Hollywood knows how to make good movies. They've been doing it for over a hundred years.

And I have a theory about this.

See, there's an entire branch of food science that companies use to analyze their foods, to make sure that they are tantalizing and appealing, but never satisfying. The reason for this is because if a food is not satisfying, consumers will tend to eat more of it, or will continue to go back to it over and over again, because there's some part of their Brain that's telling them this was tasty food and I want more of it and never seems to get enough.

This results in increased sales of food for the companies that are making these foods. And it has made me aware of the fact that if you get tired of eating a food, that probably means that it's a good food.

I said all of that to say, I now believe they are doing the same thing with movies. People watch movies because they want to be entertained, they want to be told stories and shown sights and have an experience that is above and beyond the mundane, right?

And I think they realized that if they told slightly unsatisfying stories, Then the consumer's brain would not be satisfied and would therefore go out and watch another movie, and another movie, and a TV show, and another movie, trying to get the satisfaction of experiencing a movie for the first time and being satisfied by it.

As long as they keep the tantalization factor high and the satisfaction factor low enough that people don't reject the entire system, then every single person that indulges in watching movies will consume more, meaning they would make more money by serving us movies and TV shows that do not satisfy the way that they should.

Anyway, that's my theory.