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Yesmar_ posted...

The truth hurts. It's not just people that grew up on this though. Everyone has started to develop babytastes for culture, since with so much access to media, people would prefer to settle for something familiar than to take a chance on something that might be great, because something that might be great also has a risk of being bad. And with so much to read/watch/play/listen to, nobody wants to waste time on something they might not like, or which, (and this is an absolute cardinal sin these days) might be boring. There used to be a time when people would go see a movie like Rain Man "just to see what everyone is talking about," but people these days seem to resent that idea and treat the presence of critics/awards/etc. as a personal attack.

Are great home theaters still increasing though? I thought the trend over the past several years, among young people at least, has been to ditch the TV and watch everything on your phone/laptop.

Edit: Another reason adult dramas have collapsed is because word of mouth has collapsed. Conversation is so fractured and angry these days that no one trusts anyone else. Everyone is assumed to have an agenda (not just political), so why bother paying attention to such things for something like seeing a movie which requires effort to go out and do?

This whole post sounds insanely out of touch. What world do you exist in where word of mouth has collapsed, nobody sees movies/etc "just to know what everyone's talking about", and nobody takes chances on anything new? All of those things are as true now as they ever have been, if not much more so. You can't go 5 seconds on the internet without hearing about the current flavor of the week that's new and different and omg, you gotta watch it!!! Fewer people going to movie theaters is a completely separate issue.