You can't have it both ways. You don't get daring fiction *and* a big budget (well you do, with folks like the Coen brothers and Nolan and I guess sometimes the Waichovsky's... Aronofsky... it's just very rare, that's the point I'm making). Alternatives exist. Low-budget film is very real, shit, with internet distribution as cheap as it is, you can find **tons** of original stuff. And you can support them, with your attention and dollars and recommendations, if you want..... but you probably don't. Why? Because we're all complicit in the erosion of American cinema. This is economics 101, invisible hand stuff. What the market wants, the market gets -- period. So what are we getting from Hollywood, if not [b]exactly what we want?[/b]

[url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/10/hollywood-recession-drama/]Movies are the most consistent big-business in America[/url], not the bankers, not the stock traders. Studios exist to make money, and they're good at it. Maybe even the best at it.