It's not always a tradeoff. Americans made big budget, artistically accomplished, highly successful movies in the 60s and 70s. As far as the rest of your comme

It's not always a tradeoff. Americans made big budget, artistically accomplished, highly successful movies in the 60s and 70s. As far as the rest of your comment, I'll just repeat my view that Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies are far better than MCU. And Robocop/Unbreakable are the best the genre produced.