In terms of story content, compared with the wide variety of themes found in movies from South Korea such as the classic My Sassy Girl or the costume martial-arts film Shadowless Sword, Taiwanese films often limit themselves to themes of homosexuality or college life, or are packaged like popular TV shows. An old dog doesn't learn new tricks, and as these themes are recycled, audiences naturally lose interest.
在故事題材方面，相對於韓國電影的豐富多元，例如經典的《我的野蠻女友》或者古裝武俠大片《無影劍》，國片卻老是繞著同性戀或者校園題材打轉，或者包裝成類似電視偶像劇般的小格局溫情悲喜劇，「老狗玩不出新把戲」，一再上演，觀眾自然會看膩。