Original Ideas

I have noticed that too. Even if they don't use the same title and call it a remake, it seems the movie has the same plot as one before it. I think that is just a result of the passage of time, and new ideas get sparse. I remember in one of my literature classes in college, they talked of basic ideals of conflict; man against man, man against himself, man against nature, and man against religion. I guess we could argue a new category is man against technology, but since man creates technology, that probably falls under man against man. I guess there is only so much you can write about, so many angles to the same story. Before you had movies released to cinema, there was no direct to video. Now that just about everyone has a DVD or Blu-Ray player, there are simply more movies released.

I had this discussion with my daughter the other day and I totally agree with you. I think Hollywood has run out of ideas so they take an idea from the past that has worked before and do a remake. Sometimes it works but sometimes it just doesn't. I think this is Hollywood being lazy to think up of new ideas for movies. They're banking on the following that the old movies had before.

As far as Hollywood movies are concerned, I agree. But I'm not sure if it's because they've run out of creativity. It may be that it's a safer investment to go for stories that you know people will respond to than take a chance and lose money. Or maybe special effects and technology are the priority right now.

I understand what you mean. I can't say I really mind because I'm not very familiar with a lot of the comic books characters and I didn't read all the books they made movies after. Maybe for people in America it's a little irritating but for the rest of the world is not that bad. I understand the remake problem, I don't really get that either, but there are some good remakes. They will make more movies based on new ideas, times like that will come. I'm sure of it.