What has happend to the movie biz!?!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I recently returned from the quote on quote film "Transformers 2" and the dissapointment I had was just another teastament to the fact that the film industry is relying more and more on special effects than plot. The entire expierience was the result of throwing metal scraps, a playboy magazine, some pot brownies, a pair of homosexual humping dogs and Shia LeBouf into a giant blender for 2 and a half hours, drinking the concoction and vomiting all over a movie screen. Walking out of the theater with my freinds, we discussed the action movies of the summer and why they all shared the same problem. The lure of special effects has become to tempting for producers and directors these days and storyline has become a subject for the backburner. This ever growing problem has been the death of such film franchises as Pirates of the Carribean, Star Wars, X-Men and Terminator. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that visual effects are able to let us see more and more of the impossible. It is just that relying on special effects instead of story is like having a car with a two pound engine and the world's best stereo system. You'll have somthing cool, but you won't get anywhere with it. Now if we think about it, who is to blame? Is it the producers who fund the movie, is it the director who runs the film completley or is it the public that constatnly begs for cooler effects and praises movies with absolutly no real storyline. It is my belief that we as a people are guilty. We are quick to notice graphics over storyline in modern film and we constantly mock earlier and even classic films for having cheap effects or none at all. If we do not see the problem and fix it, we may witness the death of film itself.