Why are there no intelligent movies these days ...

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Interstellar is a very intelligent movie.

This movie was plenty intelligent. Wildlife conservation, sign language, communication with animals, gene editing and genetic modification based in the reality of CRISPR, the craft and production value of the action, the designs, aesthetics, style, choreography, cinematography. For what it was, a kaiju movie based on a 30 year old game, this was a well made film. You're just too dense to appreciate any of it.

What you really mean is why aren't there more pretentious pseudo intellectual masturbatory movies you can make yourself feel good by going on about how smart they are and how smart you are for liking them.

Having read the two pages of discussion i conclude
a) you like "soldier" over Bladerunner
b) There is no movie you consider intelligent.

I am currently watching a series of movies about learning to program in C# , is that the sort of thing you meant?
I bet theres some movies on youtube about doing Differentiation and Integration , which you would have to be very intelligent to even comprehend what it was.

But , given that in your Thread title you put "These Days" how about you just list the old films that were intelligent , that way perhaps we'll get a handle on the kind of film you are lamenting the loss of , and maybe suggest some similar ones you missed?

Certain Women was an intelligent movie. So was The Square, The Last Family, Two Lovers and a Bear and Rick&Morty of course. And that's just a few.

Consider that in 1974 a movie like Chinatown was Paramount studio's mainstream hit... A neo-noir with adult themes and political intrigue at it's heart...

What audience would watch a Chinatown type movie today? Very few people.

As an example, consider Polanski's The Ghost Writer, which was released a decade ago... A political thriller about a Tony Blair-Type prime minister... No one talks about it and it was forgotten almost as soon as it was released, yet nothing on TV comes close to it in terms of political intrigue, what it says about our world and it's cinematic mood and atmosphere...

There is no audience, of scale, for this kind of film at the theatre anymore... Or rather, only a small one...

I think the hope is that we will have a new generation of filmmakers who will bring an adult, maybe gen-x, mentality to their work... And they will build a following around them and start to develope a niche of intelligent movies for grown ups...

I think Nolan is trying to go this way while bringing a mainstream audience along with him... Krasinski has made the best horror movie so far this year about the gen-x anxiety about parenting, A Quiet Place... So there are some pockets of intelligent filmmaking... And we still have the older filmmakers making an occasional movie...

Bit it will remain a niche, until the audience gets into the habit of watching intelligent movies and seeking them out...

They've always made popcorn films and they've always made more serious movies with intelligent themes. The problem seems to be you hoping to find intelligence in a video game adaptation. Go see Shape of Water, Moonlight or First Reformed next time.

There are. They are just not mainstream because mainstream audiences are not intelligent.