Why Hollywood STILL SUCKS

Do these guys sound like alcoholics or what ????

Summer Fading, Hollywood Sees Fizzle
By SHARON WAXMAN
Published: August 24, 2005
setting the movie industry on edge. But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.
"Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior," said Michael Lynton, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. "Audiences have gotten smart to the marketing, and they can smell the good ones from the bad ones at a distance."
Even Robert Shaye:"I believe it's a cumulative thing, a seismic evolution of people's habits," said Mr. Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema.
In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house.
"It wasn't like the last crop of summer movies were that much better than this summer," said Mr. Shmuger. "This summer has been as deadening as it has been exciting, and there's a cumulative wearing down effect. We're beginning to witness the results of that. People are just beginning to wake up that what used to pass as summer excitement isn't that exciting, or that entertaining. At New Line, executives have been talking about the "sameness of everything" on movie schedules, one executive said.
With the task so large, and so very complex, Hollywood is still grappling with how to broach solutions.
At Universal, Mr. Shmuger said he intends to reassert "time and care and passion" in movie production. Some of his own summer movies, he conceded, should never have been made.
He declined to name them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/movies/24slum.html?th&emc=th