for the most part, i agree. there's plenty of crap that hollywood throws out there (see: EVERY REBOOT EVER) that's mostly unnecessary.
while i get what you're saying about the Marvel/DC movies, this is also prime CGI time for them to make the movies that would even come close to looking like the comics, so...i get it. it's also pretty brilliant the way Marvel has tied their movies into their shows. not only is it brilliant in a business sense, but it's brilliant writing as well. that they've kept everything tied together so long over so many movies is pretty damn impressive.
but then you also get people like christopher nolan putting out movies like "inception" or "interstellar"...movies that legitimately make you think. Aronofsky, Lars von Trier...so on and so forth.
couple that with the surge in strange, thought-provoking shows like "The Leftovers," the third season of "Twin Peaks," "Black Mirror," and others, and i think you've got people sitting up and taking notice that thinking outside the box doesn't necessarily mean a movie or show won't be successful....quite the opposite, in fact.
is it harder to find these more out-of-the-box viewing options? sure. will hollywood continue to pump out bullshit we've seen over and over again? of course, because the viewing public is mostly simplistic and easy to please and because money is at the heart of everything hollywood does, NOT art...
you make great points, @bucho. And as I mentioned in the article, by no means are the Marvel/DC media bandwagon "bad" by any means. Quite the contrary. But it terms of "originality", they have it all done for them. And having that enormous database of information available to them, a huge chunk of creativity gets eschewed as well. So they can easily tinker with what they have as much as they like, but I feel nobody can called anything they produce "original", because it's just not. But yes, they are doing a great job with what you have to work with.
Nolan is, I feel, one of a handful of directors really trying to break the mould. Totally agree. And yes, television shows now have their time to shine. Very impressive budgets, storylines and cast listings. I see that medium as having surpassed mainstream movies by a country mile, at the moment at least.