Even making a bad movie is an extremely difficult thing to do. To get to the point where you can even CUT a feature film with an actual budget requires years and years of sacrifice, poop-sandwich eating, low-wages, long hours, and working your fingers to the bone.
That's what everyone with a career has to go through to get anywhere. And yet, even with all that, the entertainment industry turns out a steady stream of garbage with few gems scattered in between. But it doesn't really matter to anyone but the people who made it, because it's just entertainment. People put it on in the background as noise to tune out, or when they're bored, or stoned, or to escape reality for an hour or so. You guys aren't curing diseases, discovering the new physics, innovating anything life-changing, or building really anything of practical importance at all. You throw out and string together whats left other peoples work into... a
story, for a tiny fraction of the worlds people to see. The endless award shows entertainment people hold in their own honor (televised, for our benefit, of course) is revealing of how overvalued film people seem to think they are. I have yet to see an award show for the people who actually do the work in reality that keeps life on earth from being hell on earth for you. Just because a ton of money used to pour into film (too much, by the looks of the market) doesn't mean it's some great noble wonderful thing that only genius artistes can touch. Film as art can be great, but be honest about how much film is art and how much is industrial product. Who is the most creative in film? Hollywoods studio establishment? Of course not. It's always the serious amateurs. Call them prosumers. Then they go on to be studio establishment and make the same freaking drivel the rest of you do.
Frankly I'm glad to see "entertainment" losing its ass to the internet, and being devalued back down to more realistic levels. People downloading movies illegally at such a rate that it threatens your entire industry should indicate to you that your product is not worth what you're charging for it.
Enabling more people to be creative is better. When anyone can make a film, only one in ten thousand might be worth watching, but that's still a hell of a lot more good film than we've got to choose from now.