On 2000s and domination of video games

I think that we have this skewed view of the 20XX and "no life-changing music/movies" because:

1) The post-2000 explosion of the Internet caused nuclear level of entertainment atomization.
2) This affected (eliminated) useful curators and gatekeepers ruling e.g. the music scene of 80s/90s. The music is now made to please the masses directly and not masses through the curators. I am still not sure if that fully explains the absolute dread that is modern pop music, though. Googling "why pop music is bad" gives us many hypotheses, I do think some of them are on the right track.
3) It's hard to say what is life-changing when it happens. My generation hipstered movies like "Apocalypse Now" or "The Mission" which were actually a good few years old when we watched them for the first time as teens/young adults.
4) Examples of potentially classic 20XX movies: Memento, Mulholland Drive, Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Sideways, Juno, Life of Pi, Before Sunset, etc. (not saying I liked them all, but they seem to have had certain generational impact). It's hard to say what will be the impact and memories of very recent movies like Boyhood or Locke.

As for the "Meanwhile, the game industry never fails to deliver on quality entertainment for me." -- I already gave my take on this, but let me repeat quickly. We are under a spell. If a book needs to climb ten steps to be great, a game is already on step five just because it's an interactive thingy. We press buttons and shit happens. Give us a little autonomy and allow us to prove our competence (basically, 99% of games) and we are in love. Add never-ending improvements in aesthetics, tech, visuals, audio, design etc. and boom, nearly nothing else can compete. So I don't think it's movies and books that are getting worse. They're as good as they've always been. It's just that games are getting better, leaving the old masters behind.