>>211881883They're stuck on "movies should be like this, and filmmakers should be striving for this aesthetics" instead of accepting things as they are. As Hollywood gets further and further optimized for quick profits and almost cathedral-like qualities of old, great, big budget movies disappear, every new movie in this new direction hurts them to their core.
Understating the difference between Catholic artistic ideals and the Protestant and Jewish approaches to the arts would illuminate the level of angst Mike feels watching the cultural production capacity of America burn in real time.