The idea of uselessness have kept me from doing anything 'creative', even if I wanted too. It still stops me a bit. Only this year I could begin to write something, at least for personal pleasure. MOOCs helped a lot.
It's tricky the new democratisation of filmmaking,writing, etc: now almost everyone can make a film, short, anything, but that easiness of doing increase the flow of pieces, increase noise and makes any small work harder to find.

I like finding that the 'women as eye candy' trend is starting to fade. It's not the 90' anymore. But it's also true that men characters are used as eye Candy too, with an heroic twist.
I am tired of the franchises that last forever. X-men is good, but there are so many good comics out there, or even better original stories. There are franchises that shuldn't have happened, like 50 shades of grey (how many filmmakers that struggle to get funded could do better movies?) or the hobbit. Many of them are good stories yes, but they can be told in one movie. It's like the tv shows that have to have 22 episodes, you can feel the ones that are there to fill time.

I am waiting for Julieta, The Neon Demon, Elle, Slack Bay and captain fantastic.

I try to do that with every film, I didn't know that it is so common to see every single thing of the movie before watching it. Most of times I read the synopsis, and maybe one trailer. The last time I watched a movie without any kind of previous info was at bafici, I ended up watching a very good Spanish documentary about and old man that is part of a summer cycle of cinema that goes through all the small towns of Spain. I thought I'd would be boring or awful, but actually it was very good. I don't know if I would've watched it if I saw its trailer.

I feel that audiences aren't only sophisticated but also risk-avoiding too. Most of them watch movies based on something (comic, book, sequel, prequel, reboot, remake), original stories have a smaller place in cinemas because there is a preference to watch 'known stories' that's why all the publicity of making of and more are so successful.

What I look for most is transformation. I don't want just a likeable character, or lots of stakes, I want that something changes, for a bit or forever, a little piece of the character's universe or every single part of it.
And a good twist always comes handy.