>Eh, I mean it's hard to say if there's any correlation between bad movies and progressive movies.
>but there are also people who can't enjoy great movies if they can find any progressive meaning in them and make a career about ranting about it.
the problem is that being 'progressive', whatever that means today, shouldn't come before making a good movie when the goal is.. to make a movie.
No one would have cared about any of Kubrick's social messages if they hadn't been wrapped in spectacular cinema.
the 'life and times' are inexorably twisted into the cinema, but some people want to just sit back and watch robots shooting lasers at each other without being reminded constantly that the world is an unjust and uncivilized place outside of the silver-screen.
I think that there is a general fatigue among spectators in the cinemasphere for the burden -- which isn't to say that 'crusading in popular media' isn't an important concept, but rather to say that a fatigued audience will be less likely to lend an ear.