1. There is little imagination. Sequels rule and the cultural literature to mined for imagery is now on the level of comics.
2. Any night out at the movies for a date or family will kill a sane budget for working families.
3. Actors (and actresses) are pigs and you can always see their snarky faces on the check-out rags or some sleaze show in the afternoon and they all moonlight as political commentators on the evening news.
4. Computers are a bigger and bigger part. Soon, the problem with number three (actors) will be resolved because the computer will supply and endless troupe of nubile maidens and heroic leads. Even still, computer imagery on your X-box will be cooler and you can interact with it.
5. Most people, even stupid ones, can smell a political sermon. Movies today absolutely reek with the fetid stench of rotting leftist idealism.
6. Everybody’s waiting for the ultimate in mass entertainment just over the horizon . . . gladiator combat to the death in a coliseum near you (in the off-football season, of course).
Yep. We opt for the cheap seats at an NHL game (Blue Jackets) where know we won't be fed anti-American crap.
IMHO?? The one reason is the 'net. EVERYTHING is available on the 'net. Now, in your face, and anytime you want it. Entertainment, "sex", information, religion, fellowship, any other reasons we sought out the "movies" when we were younger. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is now on the 'net, and in living color too.
Hey, someone should make a movie about it.......
Oh...What?? They did??..Nevermind!