Listening to a CEO praise one of their movies has the validity of a politicians promises on the campaign trail- even less so.

I don't listen nor care for a word they say.

You should know better. Hollywood doesn't give a damn about getting it right. What they DO care about is making sure it LOOKS GOOD and can be worn by a model on a runway.

While you and I apparently agree that historical accuracy should be preeminent, the studio mindset is forever attuned to superficiality.

Sad part is, knowing public preferences and what gains popularity- Hollywood is most likely correct- if what they're looking for is making the most money - which they are.

Being historically accurate and faithful to the source material is irrelevant to the ants who run the studios- one of many reasons commerce and art are not a good fit, and capitalistic methods are limited in their benefits to products with utilitarian purposes, not aesthetic.

The bigger the world wide box office of a film, the less subtlety and eccentricity allowed, lest the wider audience is confused or insulted by some cultural or religious slight.

I haven't seen Heretic yet, but I saw the first review that calls it boring- and whenever a thoughtful movie with limited to no action comes out it's inevitable that someone is going to call it boring.

Experience has taught me EVERYTIME I see a movie that is very very thought provoking and emotionally complex (say - Bone Tomahawk.) and it stays with me so long I not only want to see it again, I go to the internet and read some of the critic and audience reviews- to see how many people had a similar experience.

Without fail, usually pretty quickly, I come across the "that movie is so boring" reviewer, and within an instant it's obvious that he (it's always a fellow dude, don't know why) has the assumption that it's the movies fault that he was bored for 1 1/2hours- 2 hours.

Those people need to understand that boredom isn't a property of the entertainment they're watching, it's a property within themselves.

It's called too short of an attention span, and a lack of intellectual curiosity- the consequence of which is probably the reason they find all the well written, slow burn movies uncomfortably inaccessible. They haven't the insight to grasp the importance or even relevance of the scenario that is being set up. Without a curiosity about things which are not associated directly with themselves or their personal interests, they have nothing to anchor to- and so they're looking at strangers behaving inexplicably and talking about things they know nothing about and don't want to.

They'd rather just assume that anyone enjoying the experience is incapable of recognizing when something is inherently boring and those people don't understand that they're not having fun but are wasting their time and must be too dumb to recognize it.

Otherwise they would figure out that boredom is not the property of inanimate objects but of human beings (and animals-of course. Intellectually less rigorous ones- presumably).

The movie isn't boring, geniuses, you are.