Hollywood could have funded a whole new planet with the collective budgets of anything starring Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson. No more period pieces. No more Shakespeare or bastardizations of same. No more costume dramas. We have enough modern history still undocumented and under-researched to last another millennium.
Truth is far more interesting than fiction.
Make films which educate us more than merely entertain us.