[True_Moose]

In the last 25-30 years or so, movies have become much more of a mass medium, so there's pressure for more mediocre movies to be produced for less profit. As a whole, this means that great movies are a lot smaller percentage of the total movies. Also, people's tastes have shifted from high drama to more down to earth, in a word "crap", movies. I think that it has created some pretty good movies, but it seems that they're in a different vein than previous ones. For example "Monsters Inc" and "Shrek" were excellent movies, but obviously not in the same vein as "Casablanca" and others.
You're right though, Hollywood has become obsessed with profits, not unlike industrialisation in England in the 1700s-1800s (so it's a bad analogy [img]tongue.gif[/img] )