[testforecho]

It's Jerry Springer on the Big Screen, the Dark Age of Cinema.

Boy I hated to post and run but I agree, most of the movies produced each year fit into the 'we're not going to present acutal character development, we're just going to provide the cues that go along with it, and you'll react like we actually did it anyway.'

[IronJack]

Not just character development, but plot development as well (of course the two go hand in hand). You get carried forward on a tidal wave of "action" and special effects, but the advancement is without motivation in many cases, and in others is so predictable it's obvious that the plot is simply a showroom for new gadgetry.