Poll: Has Hollywood run out of ideas?
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Hollywood will run out of idea's when writers have run out of idea's for books. Until then, the market just keeps growing. What hits the mainstream is a different question all together.
Try watching some indy films if you are bored. Not a bad question though.
Try watching some indy films if you are bored. Not a bad question though.
Yes they have run out of ideas especially when it comes to the horror genre. Next they'll try and remake Evil Dead and it will star some jockhead who never even hear of neither the original movie let alone Bruce Campbell and Michael Bay is going to produce it.
I don't go to the theatre anymore unless an overwhelming amount of people can convince me that a movie is good enough for me to see on the silver screen. The same tends to go for movie rentals as well. I probably have watched 3-4 movies that have been made in the last 5 years or so. That should tell you what I think of the quality of movies, especially in the present.
Hollywood didn't run out of movies, it's ran out of money. When a movie (or any IP) flops bad, producers instinctually run from anything that looks like it. They are risk adverse, and new things, such as Mr. Cameron's half-billion dollar proof-of-concept, tend to make them squeemish (which is also why Avatar also stuck with such a tried-and-true plotline that has been in use for as long as cinema itself).
EDIT: Also, thread-necroing is bad...
EDIT: Also, thread-necroing is bad...
Shakespeare borrowed ideas from the Greeks who I'm sure they borrowed from others. It goes on and on who took ideas from who.
As long as their are stories to be told, their will be new ideas. It takes somebody to tell the story and maybe it gets made into a book or a movie.
fedpayne mentioned the Seven Samurai, great movie but 90% of the people that read or post on this forum wouldn't like the movie. I love the movie. I have the original Criterion DVD. A re-make of this movie was the "Magnificent Seven" but set in the United States' west. Good movie.
I have no problem with re-makes as long as they are done well.
the Prisoner
As long as their are stories to be told, their will be new ideas. It takes somebody to tell the story and maybe it gets made into a book or a movie.
fedpayne mentioned the Seven Samurai, great movie but 90% of the people that read or post on this forum wouldn't like the movie. I love the movie. I have the original Criterion DVD. A re-make of this movie was the "Magnificent Seven" but set in the United States' west. Good movie.
I have no problem with re-makes as long as they are done well.
the Prisoner