@tarazkp There is nothing wrong in spending money in making a movie. yes entertainment is needed  in our life but the sad part is most of the movies mention had *no message*, not positive nor particularly negative.  i guess they just wanted us to be amazed watching jaw dropping technologies that most times seem so unreal. . In our chaotic world today, every platform is important to bring about positive change. Large budget movies like this most time ends up leaving you disappointed after all the hype.  Producers should ask themselves, how do they want people feeling after watching? does it inspire you, give you hope, teaches you to show kindness etc.

Quality: one’s trash is the other’s quality. 

As proven by above movie list. As proven by most best selling lists (or best selling/most visited news sites/papers).

well all the movies you listed, i only watch the beauty and the beast.

After having a wow moment with Fast and furious 7, I expected more from "The Fate of the Furious", but only not to derived the kind of joy I initially expected from it. 
However, I had learnt something beautiful about team work and family. And about making peace with people and working with a former enemy turned friend. 

Nonetheless, the monies invested into the production of some of these movies is sometimes just superfluous.

I haven't seen any of the above - probably I'm too old to fall for the hype these productions receive. I try to find quality movies, but that is very very hard, next to impossible. Maybe not life-changing movie experiences, but at least a bit of food for thought. But then cinema is for the masses, and the masses are not to think, only be entertained with glossy content and bits of not-so-subtle propaganda thrown in.

Despicable me 3, The fate of the furious and pirate of the Caribbean have really been a disappointment to me when they came out. Obviously most of them still live in pass glories of earlier episodes. 

Of course there are more ways that the money would have been used. But then we have to balance our lives so its okay to have put lots of cash in making these movies. But with that amount we would have expected more creativity out there.

Your right about this @tarazkp. We crave for these movies but when we reflect about them after watching them.. we realise we've put to waste more than 2hours of quality time. Time if put to good use can be used to learn something new in life. And yet billions are spent on producing these movies. I think the 14 Billion dollars spent so far just making and watching these 8 movies could have been used in a better way.. There are a lot of innovations going on around the globe that require more funding to complete. These innovations would still bring back much returns from the investments made. Just like the returns from producing the movies.. just that in innovation, the world would become a much better place for the current and the future generation.

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Wow yet another food for thought ...What goes on in the movie industry and in the world at large can also be likened to what happens here in my country. A music will be released and you will hate it after listening to it for the first time. Soon you start hearing it everywhere and start seeing it being played repeatedly in tv and subconsciously you start enjoying it and soon it becomes one of your favorites , not because you like it but because it's been pushed into your subconscious by popular demand.

So really I think the concept of quality these days is based on what the majority think. Excpet for a few like you who, most of the times, have a different opinion . #smiles 

>Do you think the 14 Billion dollars spent so far just making and watching those 8 movies could have been used in a better way?

All Work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...so I wouldn't categorically call itbabwaste after all. Sometimes we need to unwind and these are the things we use to do just that

I've noticed that the comfortable track record movies always get the best money reward. I really wish new IPs would come out. At least the movie "It" was a bold new stance on horror and did well in the box office!

As much as I too lament the devolution of cultural norms of the modern society, a community populated by only "_alphas_ and _triple alphas_" (to borrow from _A Brave New World_) will implode in intrasocietal conflict of egos.  Maybe the fact that _betas, gammas, and epsilon morons_ prefer to remain as such, via wasting their limited resources consuming trash, is a good thing for social stability.

nowadays film industries is running more speed. i hope in future it will get more speed in future

Hollywood is the modern Roman colloseum. People go there to forget their worries by seeing other people struggling in the most basic and usually horrible ways. Television exists to scare us with other places far worse than ours, so we will be pleased with what we have.

> What we consider quality these days in the world has been hacked by a system designed to restrict our ability to choose differently, to train us to choose what benefits a few, rather than the many.

Taraz, to me that sounds a bit extreme.. :D Of course we get spoonfed a certain type of entertainment, but that's because these industries know it  will bring revenue. I think people go to the movies to forget life for a few hours, and the majority thinks the best way to do that is to watch these action-packed movies. The storyline isn't the main focus anymore for the costumers, and that's fine. It's about enjoying the cinematography, the loud bangs, the flashes, the explosions, the visual effects... These no-brain movies (which I don't mean in a bad way) are what attracts a lot of people. It's a good way to ease the mind for a bit I guess. 

Are those 8 films worth 14B dollars? That's an whole other question... But if that money resulted in millions of people getting entertained and forget about their worries for a while, then it can't be too bad....

Now that I've seen the new star wars my fundamental thinking of the force is ever changed. And now I can once again better dream of being a Jedi knight and wooshing with a light saber and things like that! Awesomeness.

To be honest, it doesn't really have to change my life. As long as I like it. Does it matter if everyone is taught to like the same things? Wouldn't it be good if everyone always just agreed? That would fix a lot of problems. There wouldn't even be problems. Someone says that we need to fix the climate, we fix the climate. Someone says we need better quality content, we make better quality content. But that is just a dream.

As for creativity. The misconception about creativity is that it is something innate. I don't believe that, actually I know that it isn't that simple. Everyone is creative when given the chance. Some people just know how to channel it better. Of course there are some differences, but mostly creativity comes from around us and the ability to use existing things to come up with something new.

the entertainment industry is Hugh , must be a trillion world wide . People have to escape the everyday hassle of life . What a nightmare it would be if people  did not have something to escape to . Population of the planet would be tripled .