The entire point to movies is "Entertainment."
Where are the other flicks that uplift and inspire the human spirit rather than glorifying illogical Hollywood premises that continually focus on barfing, defecation, bestiality, and the usual degrading fare of dark themes? That's right -- they're an anomoly these days.
We're sick of thinly veiled social messages masquerading as "art" and "entertainment."
Comedies, romances, action-adventures, and even sad, tragic, unhappy movies can accomplish this -- must accomplish this in order for us to feel we've not wasted our time in the darkness being hit in the face with a putrefying pie of somebody's sick agenda.
That's why "Immortal Beloved" and "Raising Arizona" were great movies, and why "American Beauty" and "MDB" are sophomoric piles of lint and mud.
RE: "The entire point to movies is "Entertainment."
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!
The entire point of SOME movies is simply to provide entertainment, and there's nothing wrong with that (Example: I actually liked Dodgeball, the most idiotic comedy in many a moon). The (equally desirable) point of other movies is to reflect the world around us, the good and the bad; mankind: in all our splendor and misery. Movies that examine human nature and challenge the individual to take a stand on the world outside the darkened theater are not necessarily lighthearted or "entertaining", but they fill a cinematic need that all the funny, thrilling fluff in the world put together couldn't touch. And the emotional power and truth of those dark, grim movies like MDB and Mystic River often linger in the memory long after the Spider-man and Shreck films have faded away.