{"id":189,"date":"2025-02-01T05:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-02-01T05:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:37:26","slug":"mcmansions-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/2025\/02\/01\/mcmansions-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"McMansions & Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day, I was thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If McMansions are objectively mid, mass-produced architecture, can we call objectively mid to bad movies McMovies\/McFilms?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Then randomly thought of pitching it to ChatGPT. Here’s what it replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I like where you’re going with this! “McMovies” or “McFilms” could definitely work as a way to describe movies that feel mass-produced, formulaic, or lack a distinctive voice\u2014kind of like how McMansions are often seen as cookie-cutter, low-effort buildings built for maximum profit with little attention to craftsmanship or originality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term could apply to films that are designed primarily for mass appeal but don’t necessarily bring anything fresh or innovative to the table\u2014think of the big-budget, franchise-heavy blockbusters that follow predictable patterns or are just safe<\/em> in terms of creativity. Movies that check all the boxes but feel hollow or overly manufactured could definitely earn that title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think the term “McMovies” would only apply to big Hollywood productions, or could it stretch to other genres as well?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I was thinking: If McMansions are objectively mid, mass-produced architecture, can we call objectively mid to bad movies McMovies\/McFilms? Then randomly thought of pitching it to ChatGPT. Here’s what it replied: I like where you’re going with this! “McMovies” or “McFilms” could definitely work as a way to describe movies that feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbalais.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/jerscapades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}