Is Art Limited?

[Grieve]

There is a difference from being commericial versus being original. Your examples certainly are not commercial but they aren't original either.

That's where we'd have to disagree. I think the way David Lynch tells stories is entirely original. Where have you ever seen something like Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive before? Same for Miyazaki and Almodovar. I also can't recall ever seeing anything quite like Pan's Labyrinth or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There is plenty of originality out there, you just have to go looking for it.

Of course, that's not to say I don't love a good blockbuster as well. Love Spiderman, X-Men, 300, etc. And movies like Star Wars and Indiania Jones are a perfect example of entirely unoriginal concepts reaching artistic heights through sheer imagination and brilliant filmmaking.