"A thousand-odd films get released every year"

...and more than half of them are foreign action-adventure films every bit as bad as the worst Hollywood has to offer. I mean sure we all love the far-out kitch of Bollywood, but have you ever tried watching more than a 45-second youtube clip of that stuff?

There are more like 6-700 Hollywood (American) films with theatrical releases each year, and that figure includes vast quantities of low- to mid-budget genre retreads that tend to be even worse than their high-budget high-profile equivalents. I mean just look at the recent(ish)-release B-titles you get with your Netflix or Hulu subscription. How far can you scroll into that before you start to feel outright insulted?

So shove all that dreck aside, cut what's left down further based on personal quirks (e.g. "no horror," "no zoos," whatever), cut again if you're too old to be demographically interesting to the industry, apply the rule that 95% of everything is still crap, and you're probably left with a dozen or so titles a year that won't make you wish you'd spent the time browsing the internet on your phone instead.

The problem isn't that the big-budget producers aren't taking risks. The problem is that NOBODY is taking risks. There's just too much damned money at stake, even in what passes for "low budget" today.