Makg, I have to disagree with you in something. In the way you put it in you make it sound too easy, when absolutely it's not, and that is to make a movie. sure you can make one with a video cam you got with your friends, but it's quite hard to make somethign of good quality if you don't have more than a 2000 bucks budget, good actors, and have an expanded knowledge of direction. And as you said, you need LUCK to get someone interested on publishing the movie, you know. Specially if it's a "home made" movie.
Now, as for games....
With the technology we have nowadays in PC's, it's way much easier to make a game than what it was before.
Of course, it's not easy at all, you need to know alot of tricky stuff, and spend a lot of time on it as well.
But there's even programs you can download like "RPG maker" (I don't need to say what's that for) or the MUGEN to make all sorts of fighting games with it. And it's not so hard to learn how to make a good game in any of these programs as much as it would be to learn how to make a good movie.
As for Ruby's llast 2 questions, I don't see a reason for either movies or video games disappear, I believe they will last forever, but they will always evolve in some way. But I think also that maybe there's gonna be a new "thing" in which movies and videogames could "fuse".... allowing you to get into the movie in some virtual way...... oh, what do I know
