Some thoughts on contemporary films

I hardly ever check out anything new-haven't really for 10 years. The plots don't interest me. They sound weak and bland. The actors are so boring now.

I just don't believe that the corporations are listening to audiences at all.
I think they narrow the range of who they hire and what they will make, and then the audience has to take it or leave it.

The studios were making lots of movies that ended with failure in the 1960s-70s. They were skillfully made even if the endings were such downers and sometimes inexplicably negative. Lots of films with sour endings. Why? Nixon? Yeah, sorry I don't buy that.

Then the blockbuster restored optimism but with a change-the victor was now always the underdog or the marginalized person.
But I guess that was a done phase and the superhero has taken over-but they do not follow the old fashioned hero on a mission and succeeding formula. They are usually pretty negative and downbeat.
I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and how does that end? The romantic lead guy is mortally wounded and dragged into an underwater pit by a mermaid.
Why? What's the message?

My feeling is that unless there is some environmentally-driven biological factors (which i doubt) that has caused everyone to become more feeble, one could probably have a generation of actors and filmmakers that at least satisfy in similar capacity to olden times, but it requires a complete removal of the current narrow filter and corporate oversight.

They don't even make movies because they want to, they make it because the head office tells them to put out some content by a certain date and it has to have this this and that message components.

Look at this new Invisible Man film about an abusive husband.
A million ideas they could do with an invisible man story and they choose that?
Agenda-driven filmmaking.
Maybe I am too optimistic but I don't think the public wants it-it is forced on them.