The movie business is about making money at so many levels..why more male actors than female in so many films? Research says that women will watch films with no females in them, but men wont watch a film only about women.. The market boils down to a majority audience sector made up of 15 yr old boys..this is all hearsay research, I can’t remember where I got it from, but script, production, and casting choices often go this same way. Are we being dumbed down because we will simply absorb it? Someone, please give me some opposing information!
I love cartoons, archetypes, some cartoonish drama, and over the top action too but is it possible to have some chink in the market that makes the truly new/unusual an economic necessity for backers?

probably not, like the first part of your post, it is a business about making money, passion for art is one thing and that is why the indie film community has erupted over the last 15 years to fill the gap you are speaking of but they quickly get eaten up by the studios.

The statistics are the driving force, if you owned a business you would want it to be successful right, and if not it probably wouldn’t last very long, you would need to make money, find a niche market, find a targeted age range, acquire a product that fits and has the best chance at selling. They are dumbing us down because we fit the profile and they know it, the only way is to stop watching and that will never happen, we are consumers we are bread as consumers, think fight club.

-jason