The downfall of Hollywood

[nonchalant]

Hello AALC forums,
I propose that hollywood has essentially lost its soul. What is a soul? To me it is the unique perspective from a conscious human or people who can convey that in film. When we feel a movie is more than a bunch of pictures and words it becomes special.

Before I go any further I want to clear up what I mean by hollywood. I am not referring to every single movie that comes out of hollywood or even movies that where made necessarily made in hollywood. The majority of hollywood and anybody who tries to emulate the worst aspects of hollywood are are who I am referring to.

What are these 'worst aspects' I'm talking about? I have only to think of a few films such as  Dragonball evolution, Transformers 2 (somehow managed to suck more than the first), matrix sequals and even king kong. These where off the top of my head and there where many worse movies i could have listed.

Whats wrong with these movies is that they arnt unique, special or memorable. They are the norm and pretty much what I've come to expect these days. Reflecting back on these films (and most hollywood films) I feel like somebody just typed a bunch of things into a program of 'How to make blockbuster #93843' and it churned these out.

I feel that the main causes for this could be a number of things. Movies that cost hundreds of millions to produce can not afford to take a risk. If that movie fails somebody just lost a LOT of money. Its hard to innovate under these conditions and so we get Sequel hell.
Some films seem to be outright lazy. Starwars prequels illustrates this really well with its incredibly stale dialog and static camera work which adds to the boredom. It seems that the actors just have to deliver their lines to the camera to update us on the story and then its off to the next action sequence.

Ultimately the solution is to get back to the basics of what makes a good movie. To realise that lower budget movies without elaborate set peices are still relevant. I am not saying to do away with special Fx. I am saying without characters I care about, without a unique perspective and without creativity its all for nothing.