Predictable Plots Quotes

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical.

Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia.

When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.

In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

I watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.