What would you say is the biggest flop/disappointment of the year, as far as movies go?

“Bones,” “Glitter,” “Pootie Tang” or “Pearl Harbor?” Yeah, I said it.

There’s been a growing trend in moviemaking: go for the gold, so to speak.

With the influx of the pop era, it seems that the filmmakers, and that means everyone involved, have succumbed to the almighty dollar, too. They only make movies that are the sweetest of eye-candy.

But filmmakers aren’t the only ones who have defiled the movies we fork out $7 to see. Critics and the movie-goers, and yes that is all of us, aren’t helping out much either.

We, the people, have surrendered to the pop culture, whether we like it or not. It has sucked the life and the creativity from us.

We drone into the movie theaters to see the latest flick starring Freddy Prinze Jr., or more recently, Josh Hartnett, to see them dance around on screen.

And now comes the best part: The movies are exactly the same, only with different actors. For this, today’s screenwriters are to blame.

Original screenplays are hard to find. This year seems to be the year of the adaptation, “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and so on and so forth. It’s like they made a law that movies have to be based on something. But who can blame them, they are taking the easy way out, right?

Because of the screenwriters, creativity and imagination have been sacrificed because we continue to shell out the money to see the same movies over and over again.

Other filmmakers have noticed this and are running with it.

Jerry Bruckheimer continues to make movies with impressive action sequences, but the rest of his movies lack substance. Take, for instance, Bruckheimer-produced “Pearl Harbor,” which ended up being a blockbuster, but was canned completely by nearly all critics.

It starts out with an event that little of our generation knows about, features an awesome, yet harrowing, bombing in the middle and fill the voids with a fake sappy love story.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. It seems Bruckheimer and the writers thought the movie couldn’t do well without some sort of love story and three leading stars that make the common folk drool.

Why couldn’t it just be about Pearl Harbor and tell the story that so many of us forgot?

Because we are suckers for love stories, I guess.

The critics even have become subject to a lack of creativity as well. Did you ever notice there are about 50 movies a year that are “one of the year’s ten best,” or are called a “tour de force?”

A what? I am still trying to figure out just what exactly that is supposed to mean.

All of this mediocrity culminates in what’s supposed to be the biggest award show of the year, the Academy Awards.

This, too, has become less-than-spectacular. For the last three or four years, the viewership of the Oscar’s keeps declining, which results in a new all-time low. Plus, they last about nine hours, so people get tired of watching.

The reason is that no one knows the movies that are being nominated, so they don’t watch. The only movies that are known are the same movies that star Freddy Prinze Jr. and Josh Hartnett. And since those are all the same, they aren’t going to get an Oscar nod.

So where do we go from here?

We need to get more writer/directors like M. Night Shyamalan, the man behind “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” two original, mind-blowing movies. But, overall, we need to realize that the movie industry is headed downhill in a hurry.

So stop going to see the same movies nine and 10 times because the guy or girl in it is so hot – go for the substance of the movie. Hopefully the filmmakers will take the hint.