content: Seemed like he was making a pretty good point, to me.  Though, I don't agree that CGI is what makes movies worse today.  Most of what makes movies worse is that writers/producers don't care about script anymore.  They know most mouth breathers that pay to see blockbuster movies are just sitting on their cell phones til the action/suspense/horror happens.  That's why characters are almost always one-dimensional and uninteresting.  It's why the dialogue is hardly ever funny.  It's why I, personally, forget virtually everything about a movie the day after I've seen it. And now that the target audience is used to bad scripts, they don't even know what a good script is.  There is a great way to even test this.  Watch Jurassic World (most people seem to think it wasn't a turd), then immediately watch Jurassic Park.  They are basically the exact same movie (almost scene for scene, really).  The difference is that JW's characters have no depth.  There is one thing about each character.  Also, their characters have no charisma, no chemistry.  Nothing they say is the least bit interesting...or funny.  They are also often inconsistent, conveying two entirely different emotions within the same scene. Scripts are just FAR more lazy than they were in the past.  And, as long as there are lots of flashing colors and loud noises, who cares?  Certainly not the people who shell out money to see the same comic book movie every other weekend.  They crave more of that flavorless, over-hyped cracker.  Nobody is challenging the movie studios to improve on anything but visuals. Movies are worse than ever, but so is the audience.