But I'm going to guess I agree at least to some level - I think it is something that is true of the modern world in general. The romance in someways is disappearing as we discover a way to prove the Loch Ness monster doesn't exist beyond all reasonable doubt, in the Tour de France Stephen Roche can't go into the mists trailing Delgardo but appear out of them leading the race - technology is making life better in many ways but it is taking the mystery out of life as we know what is happening all the time and where it is. In film it means if they want to use a modern setting there are less way available to build up tension - if you want someone to be out of contact you have to actually make them lose contact before you can get on with the film rather than it being a default state and this also pushes the audiences willing sense of disbelief further.

Basically the world has less smystery in it and to get mystery in films they have to work far harder and risk damaging the audience's ability to believe in it.