Repetitive bullshit. Maybe it wouldn't be so obvious if you read these newspaper articles in a 10-year time span, as they were originally written, but read all at once, they're nothing but the same article over and over again. Every year is THE year that the costs have escalated beyond control, that there are too many movies, that the quality level has finally slipped too far, that there are no good movies being made any longer, etc etc etc. Kinda loses its believability when said 10 years in a row. I especially like the way he lists movies/directors from 50 years ago that are unknown to anybody under the age of 60, and says "Oh, those were the days...Nothing today even comes close". I can understand that he's 70 years old, and it's normal to think that the period when you were young was the greatest time of it all, but it's another thing entirely to not know at the same time that that is just nostalgic bullshit.

I don't even begin to know how to approach his constant slamming of so-called "foreign" markets, meaning "outside the USA", for the "slide" of quality in movies. And for somehow resenting the fact that "foreign" markets are bigger than the USA market for Hollywood films. Hello, McFly? The rest of the world has USA's population beat by about 1900%. It'd be pretty surprisising _not_ to have a film gross more outside the USA than inside it.