[Billthedrill]

Audience fatigue with heavy-handed messaging plays a role in the downturn.

When your writers, your directors, your actors, and your marketers are all strident Lefties, you're going to get what they intend to dish out for what they've come to feel is a captive audience in need of instruction, not entertainment. This drives the quaint reaction that failure is the audience's fault. But it's still failure.

[MinorityRepublican]

When your writers, your directors, your actors, and your marketers are all strident Lefties, you're going to get what they intend to dish out for what they've come to feel is a captive audience in need of instruction.

Crap produces crap.

Tom Cruise is the lone throwback to what Hollywood used to be like.