It also just so happens that technologically we still shoot the darn things on 35mm motion picture film, just like they did in 1915. I may well be able to get 150 channels on my satellite TV, but all it's really doing is presenting me with a selection of an entertainment form that came into popularity in 1915, when horses still drew milk wagons through city streets. But it's actually a lot older than that. I'll never see them all, nor will anyone else. But of the 3500 or so I've seen, stacking them one against the other, this is how I see it.
Movies are in a twenty-five year slump, the longest slump ever.
In fact, the slump has gone on so long that movies aren't the same thing they were 30 or more years ago. Movies used to occasionally rise the level of an art form, but now, I daresay, they no longer do. Now the best movies can do is surprise you when you find you don't hate them. So, you go ahead and like Britney Spears if that's your choice. Like her better than Christina Aguilera.