Dude, if I remember correctly, the video game industry has been outearning Hollywood for a couple of years now, (not including porn of course).
I blame it on all the junk that Hollywood throws out there. Basically if its not a comic book movie, a zombie movie, or a summer popcorn movie that features lots of explosions, (there's got to be explosions, or I won't go), I avoid the theater. If I absolutely MUST see a pompous pretentious movie, (The Constant Gardener or Syriana come to mind), I'll wait for the DVD. I go to a movie to escape reality for a couple of hours, to laugh, and to watch car chases. I know I'm intelligent. I don't need to talk about "Shadow of the Vampire being Hamlet-esque vis-a-vis the 'movie within a movie' being not unlike the 'play within a play' featured in said play." These people are as pretentious and full of themselves as wine people.
I'm sorry, but critically-acclaimed movies are almost never entertaining. Granted, some were, like Saving Private Ryan, (probably because of the explosions), Unforgiven, and Gladiator.
However I gave up on Hollywood when We Were Soldiers & Black Hawk Down got cheated by the Oscar people. And the reason they got cheated is simple. We Were Soldiers was cheated out of even being NOMINATED for an Oscar because it was a movie about Vietnam, and America wasn't the bad guy, (neither were the Vietnamese. It just told the story of what happened).
Black Hawk Down didn't get nominated for Best Picture, and Ridley Scott didn't win Best Director, because it was a movie about American soldiers at war with non-white non-Christian people, and we were the good guys. You KNOW that if it were a preachy Oliver Stone-esque movie making Americans out to be monsters it would have won every Oscar there was.
If you think Hollywood doesn't have an agenda, you're not only mistaken, you're naive. Sure, they'll put out whatever will make them money, but what is stated above speaks for itself.
Sorry rant over. Got to go.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. -H.L. Mencken
Let not thy will roar when thy power can but whisper. -Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734), Gnomologia, 1732