All the good movies have already been made.
I would disagree with you about movies, but that is certainly true of popular music. There has been nothing good since the Kingston Trio.
On a more serious note, I realize that it is perfectly natural as we get older to grow bored with whatever. We've simply seen enough. I walked away from professional and college sports a long time ago: been there, done that, and I've seen my fill. There is nothing wrong with getting bored and moving on. And if we get an occasional itch to watch a movie, there are so many classic films sitting on the shelf that there are plenty to choose from. The current offerings in the theaters are never going to match up to our personal GOAT lists.
The same principle applies across all the arts. Painters should stop painting. Sculptors should stop sculpting. They are never going to surpass the greatest works that are already hanging in museums. That principle can be extended across all cultural domains.
Of course, the logic of that position is that we should be content to live in a dead culture, never looking beyond the monuments of the past. I prefer to think, however, that we still inhabit a living culture. I also think that modern culture has become a towering pyramid of lies, and that ultimately the lies will become insupportable, the truth will out, and the pendulum will swing back. The question is how deep the destruction must go before we hit bottom. But the culture will hit bottom. On my optimistic days, I think the rebound has already begun.
Modern popular culture is leading to nihilism and despair. The bait at the front end is hedonism, ego gratification, and an ethic of pure selfishness, but the endpoint is nihilism and despair. We're at a point now at which conservatives need to build a self-conscious counterculture and be prepared to secede intellectually and morally from the degenerate mass culture around us. This will involve a huge job of institution building. Movies, television, and other cultural domains are a moderately important part of this job. We can't do what we need to do if conservatives simply walk away. We need to present viable, vibrant counterexamples, not retreat to the catacombs. Etc.
When it comes to movies and tv, many here have simply lost interest. That's fine at a personal level. But as a culture war issue, we need to recognize that we're too old to be the future. We are grouchy old farts nostalgic for a better past. But the rising generation is glued to screens. (If I could wave a magic wand and limit screentime to an hour or two a day, I would do so, but I don't have a magic wand.) We can't tell the rising generations that they should be content to watch only movies that were made 50 years ago. Can't be done. Entertainment, escapism, drama, tragedy, comedy, theater in all its forms still speak to people. We need conservative creatives who produce an ongoing stream of superior, morally coherent cultural products. And we need an ecosystem in the television, film, and online domains that lets such voices plant a flag, find an audience, and stand for better values.
It's a matter of personal preference whether any one of us wants to engage in a given domain. There are great swaths of popular culture about which I am content to remain basically ignorant, unless and until such time as they spill over into something I care about. Fair enough. But as a group, we should at least be prepared to acknowledge creatives who are doing good work in leftist dominated fields and who produce, for example, movies and tv shows that run against the grain.
At this point, the left is attempting to limit viewpoint diversity and enforce a party line on core cultural issues. And their party line is a lie. Since a pyramid of lies can't withstand honest criticism, the left is attempting to monopolize all channels of communication and marginalize dissent, with an endgame of criminalizing dissent.
So ... I'm eager to support a movie, a podcaster, an embattled academic in a woke university, etc. who is still fighting the good fight. I'm eager to point to movies like American Fiction that hammer at the fault lines in the woke pyramid of lies; this is how cultural subversion works, and we need to learn to use the tools. Mockery is a powerful tool, and American Fiction relentlessly mocks woke, identity politics liberalism. And as a practical matter, I still enjoy movies, and I have a good enough memory that I don't much care for watching the golden oldies for the umpteenth time. I'm up for writers, directors and actors who can put a fresh twist on yet another retelling of ancient truths. Intellectually serious and morally coherent movies are still being made, and many films and shows still do approach historical events with a commitment to truth.
Let Disney and the rest of Woke Hollywood die -- and the sooner the better, as long as someone gets the rights to the classic films and makes them available on other platforms. Something/someone will replace the rotting giants that dominate the industry today. I just want conservative filmmakers to have a strong showing in the next generations.