Litvyak
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Originality is fucking dead. Sorry, it is. There is probably not one thought, feeling, act, or expression that hasn't been done before.
Not true. This type of thinking is a harmful effect of our scattered post-modernist worldview, which is, despite of its claims, just another fairy tale in hopes of finding unity and wholeness through chaos and angst. It doesn't make any sense outside of its rules and boundaries.
Stop spinning and look around. Cultural and technological change shapes our language, which in turn shapes our mind, which opens new horizons. These changes are far more interesting, it's just that they come slowly and under the radar. Wait and see.
To answer the topic: no, definitely not. As for myself, mainstream is less likely to be enjoyable though.
The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, and 40 Year Old Virgin are some of funniest fucking movies I've seen in recent years and they were all mainstream. Amelie went pretty mainstream (more so than some of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's other films) and it is a fantastic film.
I never really got the appeal of The Hangover or 40 Year Old Virgin or Wedding crashers, they were just terrible imo. Agatha Christie too.
(I very well could be a hipster or a sick bastard, but Eat my Diarrhea was disturbingly funny, while Every Breath You Take was just boring and gooey).