It's no big secret that the film industry ain't what it used to be, both in terms of fan appeal and cultural influence, let alone the box office. Turns out you don't need a crystal ball to see the future. Back in 1997, directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola sat down to discuss the state of the movie business and future dangers facing filmmakers with Geoffrey Gilmore, host of Hollywood Insiders, holding little back when it came to trashing studio leadership. Hollywood didn't learn a thing. Most of their observations and predictions have proven spot on, from increasingly-inflating exec salaries to the dangers of digital effects, generic movie art, audiences' shrinking attention spans, and lack of cinematic literacy (anticipating "brainrot" two decades before TikTok made it a pand

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