There are loads of topics concerning this "lost art" of criticism. This is the problem, that's the problem, developed out of a variety of perspectives. Ironically, the artist, author, creator, the key of it all has been taken around the back and put out to pasture with a bullet to the back of the head, making art into a self-serving tool for image edification and creating clever speech, a tool of a fool. There's no longer a difference between a critic and a average moviegoer.
True art will always belong to the artist, which should be discovered by the audience. The sense of sharing has been diminishing by the capitalistic culture of calling art pieces just another product, like a disposable plastic toy in a dollar store. A sole purpose to only entertain and nothing more. You see this in the critic/audience's taste for more committee based, packaged cheese-like, catered material.
For the transformation of critic to basic audience member, I think the blame largely goes to Roger Ebert with his crusading, Napoleon-like conquest of spewed venom of the first cycle of horror slashers in the 1980's. Criticism became apart of the self movement; a field to edify one's ego by sounding smart by taking someone else's expression of themselves. Mainstream imitates audiences and audiences imitates mainstream. A Have It Your Way mentality. An average moviegoer, about 1 to 15 movies a year, believe that the skill of analyzing, interpreting and comprehension comes naturally. There's a difference between knowing story structure and exploring what the author is trying to say through his/her story.
The art is for the artist. A piece of the creator's flesh and soul poured out to be discovered and challenge on. With this separation of art and politics, it's leaves the work void and becomes just another object of apathy. What's being desired is a piece of work without a bloody, beating heart that the viewer can sink their teeth into. There needs to be a practice of empathy, humility, and patience through accepting the creator. A three hour long comic book event film is not a practice of patience but of self indulgence. Business being tied to criticism has now become the art, where the presence of the creator no longer exist.
There is no lack of originality or creativity. It only looks that way because there is a detrimental lack of worth for the artist, while the over-hyped over respected, big toe producers and plain-minded suits, looking for the fastest buck. Don't get me wrong, restraint on a artist is very necessary, but what's being done isn't restraint but silence and the audience puts the nail on the seal of the artist's soul. With that said, the agenda to silence the artist has been an ongoing life long battle against expressing distinction. We're in a world where sameness is forced down the throat, turning people into uniform-like pod people.
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