Today's movies have gone to the dogs and are strictly for the birds.

The article focuses on the deteriorating quality of movie in the United States. The author has the view that most of today's movies are atrocious. They are horrendous. They are mind-bogglingly bad. The author who is grown up on the good films made in Hollywood during 1945-60 states that he had no intention of wasting more than three hours watching a celebration of the dreck passing for cinema these days. Thus, it was no surprise to him that March 2, 2006's Oscar show was largely ignored by millions of the Americans, scoring the lowest TV ratings in years.