Brian De Palma on modern movies: "They all look the same"

I agree with certain points you've quoted. Brian De Palma painstakingly scouted locations looking for rock, dust and sediment to match up with Mars when making 'Mission To Mars' (2000). Sam Raimi took about 15 years to get 'Spider-Man' (2002) made, waiting for technology to catch up with his artistic vision, and boy does that film look greater today. Wes Craven never got the money to make his film of 'Dr. Strange' and look what they eventually turned out.

Turning films into tv serials means you need "yes" men and that's exactly what the conveyor belt now has. Even people at Marvel Studios admit this. Every product needs to be a cohesive follow-on from the next and that's what they look for. Make superdollars or else.

Compare Steven Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park' adventures to Clive Trevorrow's (who?) messy toilet filler.

Growing up we watched action films from across the decades by Richard Fleischer and Don Seigel, Sam Peckinpah and John Frankenheimer, Walter Hill and John Flynn, James Cameron and John McTiernan, Paul Verhoeven and John Dahl ... who makes muscular art movies like those guys now?

I'm not saying there's nothing good around now, but I do believe Brian De Palma makes some strong points that every film fan would do well to contemplate. Same as Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and the others. They learnt form masters that came before them. Who taught Trevorrow? McG?