[Rummyfan]

I'm tempted to answer my title question with a paraphrase of Preston Sturges' great line from 1942's "The Palm Beach Story," made when movies were actually fun: "Hollywood's not only dead, it's decomposed." (Sturges was referring to chivalry.)

The only flick I'm interested in seeing is Clint Eastwood's The Mule.

I haven't seen any of the last three or four Best Picture winners.

[Alberta's Child]

The most recent Best Picture Award winner I’ve seen was Argo (2012). I think I’ve only seen about a half-dozen of the winners since 1990 ... and none of them in a movie theater.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It seems that many recent Oscar contenders have been arthouse type movies, which were not seen by many people.

This ties in with the Oscars TV ratings dropping. How many people want to watch an awards show, to see which movie they haven’t seen and know nothing about, wins awards?

[pepsionice]

From 1977 through to late 1980s....I probably averaged forty movies a year (military theater rates were a dollar in those days). Since 2010, I’ve seen a grand total of twelve movies for the 8 year period.

The popcorn and sodas run near $12. Half of the movies have a storyline that loses your attention around thirty minutes into movie. Some acting is so bad, that you have to wonder what the producers were thinking when they hired these idiots. I hate to suggest it, but these Marvel movies are the only proven winners that you can walk in and feel entertained for two hours.