The film studios are producing these movies and putting them out for general consumption. And as consumers we pay money to watch these awful movies, so the studios are giving us what they think we want. And from the millions of dollars consumers spend, the studios think we want dramas that are over acted, or sometimes under acted, action movies that blow things and people up, or movies with stupid, ridiculous humor. Basically we pay for movies that make spectacles, whether it be effects, laughs, or “acting”. Some people say that the movies that are making millions of dollars make so much money because society as a whole is becoming lazier. Apparently, viewers today do not want to think, we just want to laugh,

watch some actors bite their lip and call it acting (cough, Kristen Stewart, cough), and watch cars blow up, according to Janet Harbord in her book The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies. While I can say that our minds are not like those from generations before, there are some people who still want to watch a movie with substance and think every once in a while instead of mindlessly staring at a screen. For example, the era of action movies started in the 1980s and have not yet stopped. But back then, there were at least three movies playing that were blowing things up, example Big Trouble in Little China, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard. There is always a time and a place for action in a movie, but killing for revenge or hate or whatever reason should not be the center of a movie. Older generations understood that, now we just need to send that message to the generation of today.