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The film industry is unlike any other huge money-making industry. It's filled with a really strange mish mash of people. First there are the writers, actors, directors, etc. Some of them can be considered "artists" and within this group is a very wide range of backgrounds and levels of education (from highschool drop-outs to PhDs.)* Then there are those who are merely opportunists.
The studio executives are often more highly educated but wouldn't know "art" if it fell in their lap. They're looking at profits and nothing else.
One of the problems is that you get these two sets of people together and there's going to be conflict about "the product" they produce. Often the result is a compromise that leaves the real artists as well as the public disappointed.
Personally, I see a lot more cr@p being produced for television than film. I watch very little television anymore because of that.
Taualumna, could you be more specific about some of the films? I think that would make for an interesting discussion.
*Note: the comparison made about the levels of education among the artists isn't meant to suggest that the more educated ones necessarily produce better work. IMO
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