poita said:

This has been true all along though, take a look at the films released the same year as some of the best films of all time, there are plenty of soul-less quick money-grab turkeys out there amongst the gold, and plenty of films decried as crap at the time that 15 years later are now lauded as masterpieces. Remember, there are only ever 200-500 or so 'great films' out of the over 500,000 features that have been made, so there is plenty of crap, even in the best years of movie making.

Yep. Not a lot of great stuff from the 80's really - yes it has Terminator, Blade Runner and a couple of other exceptions but it also has all kinds of unbearable crap including some of the worst of the James Bond films. Although I think Live and Let Die is the worst and that was 1973. But at least they improved from there - Octopussy and A View To A Kill were sequentially released and are completely terrible.