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Is it impossible to like mainstream stuff?
Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.
That's how we get avengers 23 and batman 15.
You can also try random selection, or choose by the first letter of the title. Or decide with the cover.
Or you can have a system that considers what you actually like, finds people that like the same stuff as you, and then suggest other stuff that they like which you have not heard.
That's how "the algorithm" works for youtube & netflix.
I want that, but running offline on my computer, disconnected from the internet.
Critics and mainsteam media has existed for as long as media has. They don't choose for you. They just help judge whenever a movie might be worth watching.
It's not like I watch a movie just beaucse it's mainstream. I watch some mainstream movies because they specifically are good.
And isn't really the most highly rated and well liked movies in existance mainstream by definition?
Is it impossible to like things outside the mainstream?
Movies can be liked irrespective of their mainstreamness.
...and that's why the person you originally replied to asked their question. General popularity is generally a bad proxy metric for personal preference.
Popular movies are more likely to be liked than random movies. How can you not see that?