It's not that NOTHING good is being made now! Obviously! And a LOT of shit has always been part of film.

But when was the last time I saw something with that type of ... IDK. Scope and scale?

Ridley Scott is sort of the last of that type of director, I think. You've got a good point.

And I don't even like him!!

I swear, though, part of it has to do with introducing algorithms to the business, where decisions are being made on computerized prediction and not, well, human instinct and letting a director just make something.

A lot of the epics I've loved over the years would not get authorized today, I think. Too risky.

Yes. And the returns have to be at such a level at this point, a movie of a play about Salieri that costs whatever that did??? yeah no