According to the MPAA, 700 films were released in 2019. But that's only movies seeking a rating. Sundance Film Festival alone—each year—receives over 3,000 feature film submissions. Never mind YouTube, where millions of users upload 500 hours of video per minute—every minute. Hour after hour. That’s 30,000 hours, per hour. All of it for free. Of course, those movies can't be as good as yours! And you would probably be right. 99% of movies released each year are most likely junk, and will disappoint whomever watches it. But that does not matter.

Movies require the consumption of time. Their digestion requires even more. It takes experience to find out something is bad or good. And even at that, no one really knows. All those movies released, regardless of their quality, require a consumption not of themselves—but of time.

You're not competing against THOSE movies. You're competing against the tens of thousands of hours those movies themselves individually command in attention. Which, when tabulated, would require over a single year of constant viewing just to get through. Five thousand movies would equate to, roughly, 10,000 hours of film. That’s 400 days of straight viewing.

In today's market place, audiences only ever watch a movie AFTER they've seen the trailer. Seldom do people watch a movie before watching the trailer. Moviemaking is a promotion business—not a moviemaking one. Remember, audiences pay to SEE a movie, not to have seen it. The marketing of that movie is what determines a filmmaker's, a studio's, a producer's financial success. It is only through a trailer that anyone ever knows about the existence of your movie.