My hope is that you're right.
My fear is that you're thinking is probably what could be called "wishful."
Unfortunately, no matter how you dice it, half the people out there (and more than half here!) are below average intelligence. They don't appreciate the finer nuances, and if the movie has a semblance of a plot and enough special effects and good looking people to entertain them for two hours, so be it.
If anything, the only thing the past couple of years have taught the industry is that there IS a lower limit of plot quality below which even the most inane movie-goers will reject the movie.
We're probably in for a long haul of "average" movies with great special effects which will somehow become "good" movies. Great movies only sometimes make lots of money... and sometimes (Office Space anyone?) only go on to make movie after they've bombed in the box office.
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My hope is that you're right. My fear is that you're thinking is probably what could be called "wishful." Unfortunately, no matter how you dice it, half the people out there (and more than half here!) are below average intelligence. They don't appreciate the finer nuances, and if the movie has a semblance of a plot and enough special effects and good looking people to entertain them for two hours, so be it. If anything, the only thing the past couple of years have taught the industry is that there IS a lower limit of plot quality below which even the most inane movie-goers will reject the movie. We're probably in for a long haul of "average" movies with great special effects which will somehow become "good" movies. Great movies only sometimes make lots of money... and sometimes (Office Space anyone?) only go on to make movie after they've bombed in the box office.