You got a good point there

I have yet to see 1 summer blockbuster invoke any emotion out of me to date... Transformers, Spiderman... Harry Potter... Iron Man... Terminator Salvations. You name it... take them all away.

Mindless entertainment for people who are into them and nothing more. People, lets face it, by and large are idiots. The people who attend these movies are the same kinds of people who sit around and watch "MOST SHOCKING" "DUMBEST CRIMINALS" and copious amounts of You tube videos where people inflict bodily harm on others.

Give me a Magnolia any day of the week over that junk. It might not have made what Spider man 3 made or Transformers, but it's a helluva lot better movie with a helluva lot better meaning behind it.  Give me something that means something and Hollywood can take their money elsewhere...

Consider that the majority of the people here in the States (atleast at my age) see movies as purely for entertainment and escape. I can't tell you how many times I've been told by people that "movies aren't supposed to make you think. They're just supposed to be fun. Any movie that you have to use your brain for isn't very good." I would say that the movies made for this crowd are larely 'made JUST for profit' since there are so many of them. Obviously the more money you pend to make something, the more you need to recoup your investment or you won't be able to make any more movies.

Even films made to win Oscars ultimately have a profit in mind. Last year's 'Benjamin Button' had a reported $50 million Oscar campaign, and for what? A golden statue? No, because they thought "Come see Benjamin Button" was a less effective sales pitch than "Come see Benjamin Button - Nominated for 13 Oscars."

The times when you'll see movies made for more than just profit are passion projects which normally have very small budgets because their filmmakers go in right from the beginning with the expectation that it won't appeal to very many people and thus can only recoup its cost if that cost is rather small. In these cases I don't think movies are 'made JUST for profit' but are instead made to break even. The filmmaker is so concerned with getting his or her vision out there that they could care less about bringing back a profit, though most would probably prefer to not be bankrupted by the process.

Back in the day studios may have financed popcorn films that were guaranteed to make a profit so that they could turn around and use the profit to finance passion projects that may not make their money back but would have a more significant lasting impact. These days, since all of the major studios are publicly traded companies, setting aside funds for money-draining artistic expression isn't easily justified to the stockholders.

Long story short, not all movies are made JUST for profit but the majority of them are.