I seriously believe a lot of them are just waiting for the Blu Ray release of these blockbusters ( to either rent or may even buy ) which now comes after just a couple of months after being shown in theaters.

Especially for the many who now own one or two of these huge 3D Full HD screens with accompanying surround sound home equipment, the viewing effect and experience is as good or even better than seeing them in the moviehouse..

..bastards.

Why didn't Pacific Rim do a bajillion dollars???!!! That movie had giants robots beating the crap out of giant monsters! What the hell, people?? You go and watch a movie about washed-up and has-been adults who have not been funny in over a 15 years now, but not a robot clobbering a monster? Good grief, people! If the new Godzilla movie coming out next year doesn't at least do $500M+ worldwide, I'd... I'd... I'd do nothing, but I'd be pretty piss3d off about it!

*grumble* I personally enjoyed it way more and thought it was million times better than Iron Man 3's stupid rendition of the Mandarin *grumble*

There are several reasons its going downhill

1 Movies haven't changed in over a decade. Movies were mindless violence, but visuals were getting better. Visuals have basically hit a wall at this point. Either they are "mind blowing" or somewhere near it. How many times have we seen a giant city explode this year alone? People are simply sick of it, time to go back to what made Hollywood so great, STORIES.

2 Its expensive. I saw a "meal" at my theater today. It was 3 pieces of chicken strips, fries, and a medium drink. This meal was 20 dollars. Not over exaggerating this price at all, it was literally 20 dollars for ONE meal. Combine that with the 9 dollar ticket (for matinee) and it aint cheap seeing a dang movie!

3 A lot of the good movies are learning to release in holiday season over the summer. people are waiting out the mindless action flicks to go see movies in August and later. Thor, Kick Ass, Hunger Games, all these movies skipped the summer releases and will for sure do well.

A lot of them sucked. Pacific Rim I enjoyed, and your right that Ironman 3 was sorry.

maybe the problem is giving almost half the movie budget to "Certain" actors??? "Especially actors that don't deserve it!" Will Smith anyone?

It's the economy, it's not getting any better

Movies have to be loud and violent. They need all they can afford on their side to attract viewers.
Also movies compete with TV now more fiercely than ever. With great drama pieces and action setups that rival most low to mid level budgeted movies.

Also good dramatic, thriller scripts have been virtually non-existent since the superhero craze. Argo was considered a HUGE gamble because they told Affleck that his competition was shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

Take in consideration what defines action now a days. If we see a man with muscles the whole project is considered horrible. The Arnold's and Sylvester's of yesteryear don't pack 'em in the theater the way they used to.

Folks seem to want effeminate men, or thinking man's action. Say something like Inception rather than A Good Day to Die Hard. which didn't have the best story, but it isn't billed as drama, its an action movie and in that department it pays its dues.

In short viewers taste have changed, TV is a big competition and lets not forget lots of American's steal their entertainment. Why pay when they can download it or buy from the Chinese vendor for 5 bucks.