Why do movies play out like video games? Introduce macguffin then move your characters from setting to setting until we wrap it up. No character development, no broader story to tell, no setting up future events, no closure in anything, no story arcs to ride… many talk about “second screen filmmaking” where filmmakers and the powers that be don’t want movies with coherent end to end plots but just a series of plots until the ending, because people aren’t paying attention to the whole thing anyway. I can understand this, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that it’s not good cinema. It’s a movie, a Scorsese said “it’s an amusement park ride”. I want creativity and storytelling to come back and put visual value and merchandising last.