Is Hollywood Running out of ideas??

[cdark64]

It seems recently that few original pictures get made anymore. Every big movie is either a sequel, an adaptation, or a remake. The new movies tend to be the beginnings of franchises. It's gotten to the point where they make sequels to remakes like Ocean's Twelve. They remade the Manchurian Candidate, one of the greatest films of all time. The new version was good, but what's next? You can bet with the release of the book The Godfather Returns, there's a new Godfather movie in the works. It's getting out of hand. They make sequels to movies that weren't even good in the first place, like, in my opinion, the Ring. There's even a sequel to Gladiator coming. Russel Crowe died at the end of the movie, it was kinda hard to miss.

[MaybeOneDay]

Movies are movies. You're looking too far into them.

[em0_stars]

Don't look so far into this stuff

[MrChainsaw389]

There have been a nice small chunk of exceptional original movies this year. You can't expect good ideas to roll through all the time. They take a lot of work and are few and far between.

[Throwback]

I agree thoroughly. Hollywood, like music, is so derivative. With that said however, let us pause for a moment and appreciate the following films of this year:

Eternal Sunshine
Collateral
Garden State
I <3 Huckabees
The Butterfly Effect

[JacqueA925]

Movies are movies. You're looking too far into them.


i have the same problem with tv shows on disney. everytime i watch lizzy mcguire (sp?) im like "WTF" cuz its so predictable and their computers are all weird n shit. that show irritates me

[Hilikus]

i hate all the shitty action movies that are the same.

[PunkDrums182]

anybody see The tuxedo and the medallion.. ? Same movie? i think so.

[Bishop]

I want to be a screenwriter and I read a book that said each and every fictional story ever writen can fit into 7 different scenarios.

[emberNenvelope]

seems like you're running out of ideas man.

[brandnizzle32]

yes, yes they are

[dayafterdayroks]

i agree :headshake

[WakingTheMisery]

i want to see one of you write a script...

[Thomas Sway]

I agree thoroughly. Hollywood, like music, is so derivative. With that said however, let us pause for a moment and appreciate the following films of this year:

Eternal Sunshine
Collateral
Garden State
I <3 Huckabees
The Butterfly Effect


Fuck yes, but how the hell does Butterfly Effect fit into that list? It was a great movie, and I was definitely suprised at Ashton in it. But it was definitely not up to par with those other four. Particularly with Collateral.

[punklet2101]

i want to see one of you write a script...
Yeah..

[_astheruinfalls]

Yay for indie films.

[_astheruinfalls]

i want to see one of you write a script...
The only problem I have with this statement is that we aren't the ones who made it our jobs to write a script. We don't have that talent nor do we claim to. The people that do write the scrips do, though. So they should be under fire if they can not come up with something original.

[Bishop]

i want to see one of you write a script...

I have three plays in the works right now.

[forswornpromise]

awesome what are they about????

[Bishop]

awesome what are they about????

I have one about these this guy and a girl who are 15 years old and they share a hospital room and they are both terminally ill with cancer and they fall in love and yeah, once I finish it you can read it. Another is about this guys descent into the drug world and how he becomes a rich drug dealer. Another that I just recently started deals with a family Christmas that is just absoloutely insane where the Grandfather is a huge conspiracy theorist, the father is a huge drunk, the mother talks about being on a quest to stop the great "nonkamp" Most of it is still in my head, I just have to figure out the rest of the characters and what I want the story to turn out to be.

[Trademark797]

what about ray?i know i know its not like they had to think of what it was about, but still the way they presented things and the acting was all great.

[LoyalSubject]

I want to be a screenwriter and I read a book that said each and every fictional story ever writen can fit into 7 different scenarios.
...and Shakespeare was the only one to do all of them, yah I heard that speech from every teacher who tried to get me to appreciate that moron.

[Bishop]

Some of his stuff was boring, but I really enjoyed Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.