[Billy_bob_bob]

Movies used to be made by people who had lived real lives before they got into the movie business. The people who make movies today grew up watching movies. They don't have real life experiences to draw upon, their lives consist of the movies they have watched. This is why their product is so empty, because they have nothing inside themselves to bring to their stories, instead they are endlessly rehashing stories that they have seen before.

[CIB-173RDABN]

You have a point. A lot of the mass entertainment is being made by very young people, for equally young people.

As someone smarter then me said once, "When I was 20 I knew everything, now that I am 50 I know nothing."

[Dr. Frank fan]

Movies used to be made by people who had lived real lives before they got into the movie business.

When was this? 1910? Sounds like you're idealizing history, and in particular Hollywood, just a tad.

It's just as likely that those old films you love starred vapid bed-hopping screwed-up people who Moved To Hollywood To Make It Big, as it is now. Did Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles, or Norma Jean Baker (oh, sorry, "Marilyn Monroe"...) really ever "live real lives" as adults? I guess I just wonder who you think you're talking about here.

The people who make movies today grew up watching movies.

This was also true in 1970, 1950, and probably even 1935. Movies've been around, and popular with the young people, a wee bit longer than you seem to think.

[free from tyranny]

Excellent point! It might also be said that our life experiences are not as diverse as they might have been decades and centuries ago.

Sure, levels of wealth may differeniate the stage props, but isn't the script familiar? Let's all get rich! Make your mark on the world by aquiring as many goodies as you can afford and experiencing as much as possible.