If a man from the past was suddenly brought into the present day, he'd no doubt, after questioning the very fabric of reality, marvel at the current state of the movie industry. Compared to decades past things are very different. Special effects push what we're capable of showing on screen - screens which, thanks to digital projection, look incredibly crisp - and the biggest hero of the summer is a humanoid tree with limited vocabulary. One thing he'd find familiar (besides the extortionate price for what is simply popped corn), however, would be some of the fundamental issues within the industry. Although we love movies, there's no denying that there's some major problems with how films are produced at the moment. Sure, some of these problems are genuinely new; splitting a single book into two parts just to maintain a franchise is a very 21st Century blight, whereas this emerging obsession with setting up a sequel over dealing with the plot at hand is clearly a bi-product of the franchise-dominated market. But you know what, a lot of the more common problems have been around for a long time. Today we're looking at those long-standing problems people mistake as a newly-emerged. issue. Here are ten things people chalk up to modern cinema that have in fact being around longer than they realise.
