Has Hollywood run out of ideas?

[PittPoliSci]

With the influx in remaking classic movies, has Hollywood finally run out of ideas?

[KitchenWitch]

1. They are too cheap to pay for new ideas.

[PittPoliSci]

2. good reply!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. They are going through a creative dry spell right now. I think they

start producing remakes for about a year then go back to "original" work.

[Az]

4. There is an entire world of movies out there

And its worth your effort to see them in the original before the US steals them and remolds them for our dumbed down tastes.

[CanuckAmok]

7. If "The Machinist" or "The Man Who Wasn't There"** did...

$100 mil on their opening weekends, Hollywood would make more movies like them.

**Two amazing American movies which slipped through the cracks.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. The Machinist isn't technically an American film...

Also Known As:
The Machinist (International: English title) (USA)
MPAA: Rated R for violence and disturbing images, sexuality and language.
Runtime: 102 min
Country: Spain

The Man Who Wasn't There is a good example though.

[CanuckAmok]

12. I'll be damned!

You're right!

[Breeze54]

5. No 'GOOD' new idea's....

Everything is cookie cutter. Predictable!
Same old theme and no plot that's worth wasting my time on!
I went to my local movie rental place the other night.
I was there for over an HOUR and I couldn't find one damn
movie that interested me!
Is it me?
I don't think so.
I ended up with 'The Crow', never saw it before.
It was definately different! Good halloween flick.
But all the 'new' releases were garbage'! imho
I like independant's though.
Netflix has a lot of those available...
maybe I should renew my subscription!
'Cause I'm bored silly!
Time to get some new books!

[CanuckAmok]

6. this is a good poll, but it could use a smartass cat or a sarcastic robot.

We don't want to alienate the tweenie market.

[qnr]

8. No. Even if you have the idea to steal someone elses idea, it's still an

idea.

[Az]

9. Its not just that they ran out of ideas

Even the ideas they steal have to get crammed into a box that they can present to the investors as a pack of numbers. Hollywood has been reduced to an investment. The art is gone. All that is left is numbers and glitter.

[CanuckAmok]

10. BTW, from The Onion:

"...To better protect their stockholders' interests, Hollywood will be shifting its focus to safer, more reliable profit models, including real estate, life insurance, and the sale of hygiene products.

Said Meyer: "The mortuary industry also seems like a good bet. No matter what happens in the economy, there's always a market for funeral homes. People are always dying. That doesn't go unpredictably out of fashion with the public's taste, like, say, historical costume epics or Russell Crowe."

Monday, construction crews quietly dismantled the storied Hollywood Walk of Fame..."

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41239

[BeTheChange]

13. Ive decided to quit my job and write a decent movie..

When the most original thing you have seen all year is March of the Penguins and you are looking forward to the Warren Miller movie of the year...

You know that it is serious.

I really think I could make millions, because obviously the entertainment industry is all collectively hooked on crack. To make matters worse, Indie films have been trying to hard lately..

I <3 the Huckabees? Come on, that was depressing crap.

The Life Aquatic? WTF?

You'd think for a few mil someone could come up with one good friggin idea.

[WCGreen]

14. Garden State was watchable and sweet....

I enjoyed the hell out of Sin City...

Batman was good...

The 40 year old Virgin was funny ...

Neverland was marvelous.....

But the rest of the movies I have seen are crap...

But if you really want to get to the crux of the matter, there are really no new ideas, just different situations......

[BeTheChange]

15. Garden State was okay. It had a great soundtrack..

Sin City was garbage.. That was the most worthless movie I have sat through, ever. No offense, I just really hated that I wasted 2 hours of my life on that movie.

The 40 year old Virgin was pretty decent.. but it had gratuitously bad peripheral characters.

I think they take all the sucessful movies from the last 30 years, play mad lib with them and that is how they are coming up with all this crap.

Yawn.

[WCGreen]

17. I like Sin City cause I love the graphic novels...

It wasn't a movie I would recommend to everyone...

You are right about 40 year old virgin.... The peripheral characters sucked....

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Absolutely! I was just talking about this yesterday.

How many remakes and sequels must we endure, let alone feature films based on old TV shows?!:crazy:

[ikri]

18. They're responding to DVD sales

A film like Assault on Precinct 13 gets released on DVD and sells well.

The industry execs will see that a (relatively) low budget film that didn't make a ton of cash at the box office is making a lot of cash from DVD sales. They'll then decide that they can simply remake the film for a new generation and rake in even more cash.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. There's plenty of good ideas out there.

Studios just decide to go with rehashed B.S. because they can count on millions of idiots to save them.

Occasionally, they'll put out something worthwhile, but it's pretty rare. As an aspiring screenwriter, it looks pretty bleak to me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Dupe, delete.

[PittPoliSci]

21. alright nighthawks, kick.

[crispini]

22. Yes.

:kick:

[WCGreen]

23. Agreed....

[trackfan]

24. Yup

They not so much ran out, as they are too lazy to come up with something new when it is so easy to copy or imitate. My wife showed me a blurb for a movie that came out within a year of the famous "The Sheik" with Valentino. This movie was called "The Arab" and starred Ramon Novarro in a get-up that looked exactly like Valentino's Sheik outfit. COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW ASSHOLES!!!!!11111111!!1!