[James]

I kind of feel his generation were more creative film-makers than the people making films now.

The current films are made by Gen-X'rs and older Millennials that grew up in the 80s with all the great popular culture that came out of that decade, and for whom Star Wars in 1977 was year zero for films - they kind of want to copy all of that, and the earlier films of the seventies that they admire.

Obviously the way the Internet hypes up the big superhero films and recognisable IP, at the expense of everything else, contributes also.