The Day the Movies Died
This article over at GQ is a must-read if you enjoy watching movies. And who doesn't? So go read it.
At their most basic, their movies weren't movies; they were pure product—stitched-together amalgams of amphetamine action beats, star casting, music videos, and a diamond-hard laminate of technological adrenaline all designed to distract you from their lack of internal coherence, narrative credibility, or recognizable human qualities. They were rails of celluloid cocaine with only one goal: the transient heightening of sensation.
That pretty much sums up modern day Hollywood doesn't it.