When is the last time you saw a two minute shot of dialogue, showing a range of emotions? You know, real acting, real filmmaking?
Movies are bullshyt these days. Today's "style" of 'line CUT line CUT line CUT line CUT' totally kills immersion and is a big part of why movies suck and why I stopped following cinema some years ago. You can train monkeys to do that shyt and that's probably the reason it's so prevalent.
I had this epiphany while watching Bogart just wander around talking to himself in the bushes in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. A single shot of several minutes in length, and completely enthralling because in that span of time he was able -- and afforded by the director -- to convincingly display a wide range of emotions, from despair and doubt to triumphant confidence.
"A touch of evil" orson welles had a similar single shot in the intro of the movie, its one of the greatest segments in movie history to me, because i know how complex it must have been to coordinate that shot.
I know exactly what you mean however. I made this weekend that just passed a movie weekend and i rented 3 "different" movies; Parker, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty. Parker of course was mindless action, but im a Jason Statham fan so i can tolerate. Zero Dark Thirty my lady fell asleep on, and Silver Linings Playbook surprisingly was the best of the 3...but would have made it a shyt ton better is if they kept the cut scenes...there was a scene where Bradley Coopers character has a monologue equating dance, and the song selection, to being in love...and the camera just focused solidly on him for 2 minutes...it was a real good 2 minutes that made know what he was feeling and what he thought love was...it was great acting i thought...but i realized why they cut it out...the audience can't take 2 plus minute monologues...
movies nowadays are being made to obviously maximize revenue, but to maximize revenue everything put in a movie is to satiate the audience. Movies are not the greatest example, but movies/art were made at one point so that you had to up your level of understanding to get it, not vice versa. There used to be a balance between nonsense and highbrow, its the reason why pbs was created or kubrick could make a "dr. Strangelove". Your gonna continue to see a devolution of media as companies try to maximize revenue and viewers demand less. I used to think that "if you build it, they will come" but if your building for the lowest come denominator, your gonna end up with art that represents that.