The danger of today's cinema is the poor taste of the mass audience. Saw many social media sites calling 2017 a "shockingly amazing year" for movies. We're in this braindead age of people coping by any means necessary and lying about how bad things are. This isn't my cynicism. This has been the case in the past (1990s, 1950s).

Films like IT, Power Rangers, Justice League, Split, etc are so cringeworthy now that you can properly label it "future kitsch". Because these films think they are much more grand and intelligent than they are, their disposable nature is more tragic. Hopefully these films will be laughably lame in 20 years. But its crazy that people (ok, mainly under the age of 40) view these films as high art comparable to the greatest films ever made. Get Out was the best film of the year and its not even one of the top 250 films period.

Bad films will keep making fortunes and people will keep seeing them. But the counterweight is missing. Is there some way we can go back to the good old days where low budget amateur productions can have their own boom and marketplace where Hollywood can't step on them or, Heaven allow it, can actually play next to big famous films? Its such an easy way to boost the economy of the working class to take the ridiculous corporate monopoly out of filmmaking, advertising and distribution. Hollywood is the perfect example of all the corruption in America and is an easier, weaker target than its ever been.