Good movies start with good stories and good stories revolve around culture heroes. Then you throw in good acting, cinematometry, special effects and stunts, costuming, and all the other movie making trades. We don’t have good stories anymore because we don’t have culture heroes or a unifying culture. We don’t like ourselves much these days or even agree on who we are or who we ought to be or even who we used to be. Can’t write stories in that environment, at least not big stories. Shakespeare today would be writing graphic novels about queer superheroes from a land run by tough women in pants.
Good point.