WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE FOUR STAR MOVIE?

It has gone the way of the dinosaur!

Here is a breakdown of the number of Four Star rated American movies put out by Hollywood during the past 7 decades. Source: Video Hound's Golden Retriever

The Forties (i.e. 1940-49)......................................34
The Fifties........................................................29
The Sixties .......................................................13
The Seventies ...................................................11
The Eighties .....................................................8
The Nineties .....................................................6
2000-2009 .......................................................7

Can you believe it?, From 1970 to right now, 39 years, 32- 4 star movies.

That's about one a year.

So if you are paying about $80.00 a month for standard tier television programming plus 2 movie channels you are paying about $1000.00 per 4 star movie

For that much you could almost film your own home movie.

Break it down further, there were 63 movies with the highest rating between 1940 and 1960. From 1960 to the present, there have been only 45 4 star classics.

Obviously Hollywood is tanking and I have my ideas as to why:

Too many sequels
Too many horror movies
Too many animated movies
Too many vampire movies
Too many Ben Stiller movies
Too many Adam Sandler movies
Too many Will Farell movies
Too many Aston Kucher mvoies
Too many Demi Moore movies
Too many Helen Mirren movies
Too many girlfriend movies
Too many stoned out Hollywood Directors
Too many stoned out Hollywood Screenwriters
Too many stoned out Holywood actors and actresses
Too many Movie Reviewers addicted to Heroin

So what can we do about this sad state of affairs?

Really not much. Maybe pray for a major earthquake to hit Hollywood dead on?