DominicCobb said:
I could spend all day listing exciting directors still working today. Snyder and Bay are far from "all we have." They're actually very easy to ignore.
Snyder and Bay make more money at the box office than all those other "exciting directors" combined. Even though these other less profitable directors will be remembered forever in film history, hollywood executives ignore history when money is involved. And when the people in charge continuously ignore the talent and bend over backwards for the hacks, that means less exciting directors for the future, hence the decline of cinema.