Helsing posted:

You say this as thought terms like bland, repetitive, stale and cliche are somehow ambiguous or obscure, but of course you know exactly what I'm referring to. Your only maneuver here is to try and pull the entire discussion into the brier patch of obtuse jargon that you rely on in all these discussions and arguments, and every time I sarcastically dismiss your attempts to escape down this route you try to make this dismissal into some kind of signifier of your superior taste in films. But of course you understand, as everyone does, exactly what kind of criticism I'm making. There's no need to elaborate in a dozen sentences something that can be stated in one or two, namely that the same handful of plot points, themes, images and even characters have been recycled yet again.