Why Have Movies Been So Bad Lately?

mikesd81 asks: "Why have movies and shows been so bad lately? I find myself looking on my Video on Demand service from my cable company or flipping channels and just nothing seems to have any depth any more. But on the other hand, I happened to watch Stargate Atlantis and there was an incredible scene that just caught the emotion and emergency. So is it the directing? The writing? The acting? It seems more and more movies just aren't worth anything. Let alone paying $20 to go to a movie." Let's not forget the recent number of Hollywood remakes and the amount of "reality TV" being pumped out by the networks.

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[Moofie]

Whereas, your ability to pre-judge same is unquestioned.

Goodbye karma...

[19thNervousBreakdown]

LoTR sucked. Or at least, I didn't enjoy it at all. I was bored, and when I wasn't bored I was confused. No, I never read the books--well, I got halfway through the series when I was thirteen--but they sucked too. I was about to go on a long diatrabe about exactly why and how they sucked, but I'm sure it's been done a thousand times better than I could do it already, so I'm just going to express my opinion and take the -1 flamebait -1 troll -1 omgwtfhedoesntlikelotrburnhim.

I just don't understand why so many people love this movie. Even non-geeks, and people who have even less of an idea what's going on than I do. Maybe it's the best fantasy movies out there. I'll concede that at least, but rather than spawning a bunch of good fantasy movies (Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is over-verbose and yet simple enough story-wise to compress to a trilogy movie, Discworld would be an awesome fantasy/comedy, WoT for an HBO series that runs for 3-6 years, etc.) it just seems to have fizzled out. I don't get it. If the people love a crappy fantasy movie, why wouldn't you follow that up with something good?