"Unusual Buildings", saw it, I liked it. Being near Lincoln Highway in PA, I've seen many of those. There are still a couple in Philly but a number of them when you head out to Lancaster.
Modern Sensibilities - perhaps that's it. I like educational programs/films, I like entertainment but at some point, it must have become the goal of film makers and producers to to have the audience take on their sensibilities, their belief patterns. Education, entertainment reduced to packaging.
There was a movie I saw in the theater a while back, I think is was Julia Roberts a similarly terrible actress, she was abused by her husband. She spent months on these tricky martial arts training and crazy plotting. I turned to my date and said to her; "guns!, problem solved, The End" and got up to leave...
And it's technological. Whenever a new technology comes along, it gets overused, because it's the latest thing. Right now the novelty of digital film apparantly hasn't warn off, so we see all the new cliches, the unrealistic car wrecks, the 360 views of a bullet in midair, etc.
All tedious. No actors with charisma or originality. No stories worth watching. No directors of any talent. Just crap.