The latest in a long line of people declaring their dislike of certain genres of certain media. The saliencies of genres are their tropes and conventions, not their quality. To dismiss a genre out of hand is only harmful to the person who does it, certainly not the producers of works within that genre.
For instance, I would argue that Crank High Voltage is better than Citizen Kane. Based on what metrics is the key though, and for me, the metrics that demonstrate the superiority of CHV over CK are excitement, dynamism, unpredictability, audio (everything from score to sound effects), and cinematography. While it is true that Citizen Kane laid the framework for many of the tropes and conventions of "Oscar-worthy" films.
Action movies are the best movies (especially action comedies) because their pretense is their ability to entertain, not their ability to present a skewed view of reality. Presenting a skewed view of reality are what the movies that are nominated for Oscars do best, and many do so in a very pretentious way, and if it isn't done pretentiously, it's done patronizingly, and what is the value in spending 10 dollars to be told by rich people how crappy it is to live in a consumer culture.
When action movies hit the right notes, they are far more entertaining than when dramas, tragedies, romances, and so-called 'think-pieces' do.
The truth of the matter is 98% of all art in all media of entertainment (be it sculpture, poetry, music, film, painting, theatre, video games) are crap, because our entire culture is obsessed with contributing to it through media (as opposed to productivity) and so the market for entertainment media and art is flooded with shit by people wishing to make a living via masturbation
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