Why r/movies is the worst place to discuss movies

The slice of the population that frequents Reddit is, and always has been, predominantly young male Americans.

As someone who took film studies, and worked at a large social media company, it looks good for advertisers, but is pretty myopic when it comes to discussion and content. The films here will wax towards that demographic, usually American action films directed towards them: The Dark Knight, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, and the most recent action films like Mad Maxx Fury Road.

Those are all fine films, but the quality of discussion over them, and the democratic voting system, will always direct conversation away from criticism, and foreign language films, or maybe female driven dramas, and we're left with a bit of an echo chamber. And when I come to discuss and explore films, I feel sometimes I see the same content bubble up over and over, when I would rather be exposed to new things.

This is a plea to allow r/movies to expand beyond the majority opinion, and grow to support more types of films, and their content. We should be open to cinema as an artform, and celebrate films and opinions that maybe we don't all agree on.

Thanks.

Submitted April 28, 2017 at 07:44AM by mortusest http://ift.tt/2qdqXFC