Movies these days live or die by the first weekend at the box office. The main demographic of viewers for opening weekends are adolescent boys, ages (about) 14 to 24. That is the target audience for most of the movies coming out now. Instead of stars like Newman and Field, you get actors like Adam Sandler and Jessica Simpson. You get action and special effects in spades. Plot is lost in the chaos, so why go to the work to put it in? It's much easier to just shoot the bad guys than to try to come up with a twist to defeat them intelligently.
This isn't my idea. I'm not that original.
I've watched several interviews with people in the movie industry who were lamenting the quality of today's movies. The music industry is having the same problem.
Cody
