Responsibilities of the Consumer in the Entertainment Industry?

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To answer your question BAndrew, the problem is that the free marketplace, which is supposed to function so that good ideas are rewarded with patronage and bad ones ignored, has turned into a machine that arbitrates its ideas so as to perfectly coincide with demand, in other words they are artificially made to appeal to as many people as possible. This isn't how it's supposed to work - art without expression is meaningless. If you pander to the masses by injecting certain superficial surface elements without the internal consistency that (hopefully) comes with ideas that a few people or even one person feels very passionate about, you just defeat the purpose of the idea in the first place. It becomes a temporary amusement, to be discarded as soon as it has been consumed. It has of course always been like this after a certain fashion, but it has become especially catastrophic in this modern age where large corporations hold a monopoly on the market and have the power to determine what is on the marketplace.

It's not impossible to seek out entertainment that veers from the mainstream of course, but the mainstream does consist more or less of an artificial amalgam of the demand of the market which hurts the people to whom it doesn't appeal. The personal touch is often lost, with companies bowing to the market's every will in order to maximize profits. The result is often a mess that may have certain aspects that appeal to people on a superficial level. There might be some people that like action movies, some that like romance, some that like light-hearted comedy, some that don't watch movies unless they end on a good note, some that like mainstream music, etc. Whatever you can think of - and the result is that the majority of movies have all of these aspects. It isn't a concentrated effort, where every element points toward one incontrovertible purpose, it is just a mess of elements with no point. This isn't how commerce is supposed to work, it's been and continues to be deliberately doctored. Only my observations of course.