3 smart sounding reasons movies feel dumberā¦er
Last week, I posted my new research on the simplicity of movie scripts. Today, Iām sharing the companion video under the guise of The Film Data Scientist. Itās just like the original research but dumber (read: more entertaining). You can read more on the topic here. Iāll be uploading new video essays every couple of weeks throughout 2026, so make sure youāre subscribed on YouTube to get notified when another drops (also, subscribing will really help me out with the Algorithm Gods, so it would mean a lot to me - thank you!). Here are some past videos from the channel: And to help explain the channel, I also created a short channel trailer:
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