The glorious scores of Victor Young and Erich Wolfgang Korngold gave way to the unmelodic abrasive sound called rock that has assaulted our ears ever since, much to the dismay of lovers of good music. I realize that audiences have changed. Kids weaned on MTV grow up with a distorted idea of how a film should look. Another trend that has caused this basic change in films has been the marketplace. Originally, films were made to be shown in theaters.
Today there is television, and many producers aim their product strictly at the small screen.
A lot of films are never shown in theaters. Check out your video store, and you'll see many familiar titles, but there are many more movies that are simply two hours of mindless pap, sex and violence churned out for couch potatoes who have nothing better to do, and who are not too particular what they watch. Television has, in my opinion, affected the film industry to the point where producers are not so concerned as they once were over the content of a film. And the bottom line being the buck, producers lean more toward the commercial potential rather than attempting to add to the world's storehouse of memorable movies. Here's an example showing that I am not alone in my preference for traditional films, and my criticism of so many contemporary movies.