Is it just me, or has Hollywood run out of idea lately?

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SOLDIERis1337

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It seems every other movie I see is a remake of an older movie or TV show these days. I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing, I enjoy some of these remakes and I find others to be garbage, but what are your thoughts on the current remake/reboot/recreation trend? Here's a list of some recent, upcoming and possibly upcoming remakes of older titles that may spur conversation:

Get Smart
Halloween
Prom Night
My Bloody Valentine
Friday the 13th
The Last House on the Left
Star Trek
Red Dawn
The Karate Kid
The Wolfman
Robocop
Hellraiser
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Stephen King's IT
The Reanimator
The Birds
Rosemary's Baby
Child's Play
 
Im looking forward to some of those actually lol. Them being:

Halloween (I assume you mean the Rob Zombie ones? Hes made H2 and it looks awesome!)
The Last House on the Left
Star Trek
The Wolfman


I agree Hollywood isnt bothering with much originality now-a-days and it can be frustrating. Even GI Joe has a movie, which Im 50/50 ith cause my childhood is getting put up on a big screen before me. I do wish Hollywood would do something original and different, but even when they do, they dont do a good job. If its not remakes, its novels, games, comics, TV shows being made into movies to keep us entertained and their pockets filled.
 
that because hollywood are in the process atm of re-making 20-30 oldies (things like ghost busters n 70-80's stuff )
 
To be honest it's been like this from at least the start of the 80s, but I think a lack of originality is something you'll always get on the surface in Hollywood and it is something that has always been there to some extent. Remakes and sequels (even adaptations) require less thought to plan out and so they invariably come to dominate the schedules.
 
Terminater, Batman, Iron Man everything is from some past success but after thousands of movies its hard to make something new or sucomb to the thought, "If it ain't broke don't fix it.
 
It's also because the current breed of directors and writers have grown up being influenced by great films such as The Godfather and Taxi Driver, and so they can't help but try to copy that style, and so any originality there is lost. Hollywood has been through two golden ages, and it's hard to tell when (or even if) the next one will start.
 
Stephen King's It?

What? .........WHAT?!

Is that confirmed or just a rumour?
 
"Warner Bros. isn't clowning around on the remake front as it is sending everyone's favorite clown Pennywise back into the spotlight for a theatrical redux of Stephen King's novel IT to be produced by Lin Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment."

That one doesn't really bother me, I didn't think the original was scary and if they get the script and stuff right it could be...especially since they're working with a clown ;_;
 
It's fairly good business to remake a film, you don't have to do as much advertising and the film already has a fan base. That being said, I don't think that they'll actually improve on them, the original Last House on the Left is a fairly brutal movie, with both female protagonists being raped. I think the remake could only be a watered down version of the original. But I think the industry has always been more about profit than any form of creative integrity.
 
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