[Mr. Jeeves]

I think Hollywood's films are often too introspective - they get so caught up in studying subtle shades of gray that they forget the existence of the big, black-and-white themes that "Passion" and "Lord of the Rings" portrayed so well. Of course, most "enlightened" Hollywood types don't believe in the concepts of good and evil, so that makes it hard for them to create themes with any relevance to people who have to live in the real world - the kind of subjects that might be discussed at a Hollywood cocktail party end up being made into films.

[highlander_UW]

As I mentioned, there are a few Hollywood movies that are deep, but even the type you refer to as "introspective" I believe are not really deep but simply run over the same little bit of emotional terrain without really digging into implications. I believe that is exactly because of the reason you stated, which is that Hollywood doesn't recognize evil or good. Instead they make introspective movies like Shallow Hal and Jason vs. whoever that other slasher movie guy is.

[Sam's Army]

Your post made me think of the Sarandon/Penn movie "Dead Man Walking" as a perfect example of the overstudy of Gray vs. Black and White.