Worse, many of these top ten films aren't just "sequels", but re-re-re-treads.

How many movies has Batman appeared in? It's over two dozen if you count things like "The Lego Batman Movie".

Thor and Doctor Strange have collectively appeared in over a dozen films. Spider-Man, who knows?

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a sequel to a movie about a series of videogames. Surely the last days are at hand!

At least we're seeing some astonishing TV in the twenty-first century.

My wife and I just finished rewatching Game of Thrones, and it stood up even more than on the first watching. The story is grand and heroic, but is also consistent, non-stupid, interesting to adults, has strong acting values and is emotionally rewarding, and is just a mess of spiky, interesting characters, still visually stunning a decade later.

I could name many other TV series that blew our minds in utterly different ways, like The Good Place.

When I was young, TV was a vast wasteland! I never even owned a TV until I was quite old, and looking back on the shows I missed, I didn't miss much.

Now "TV" and video games have hollowed out film.

I wouldn't underestimate COVID as a cause either: I ration my "being with a large number of people in one room" time to my core interests, which are live music, art openings, performances... and so sadly film no longer gets a look-in, I spend all day sitting!

If I miss a film in cinemas now, I can see it at home in a couple of years or maybe a lot less.

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