I`ve been watching the movie trailers of the movies just coming out but seriously most of them are movies you have many years ago examples are: King Kong and most recently coming to a theatre near you The Day the earth stood still which is a re-make of a 1953 classic with the same name. In your opinion have they run out of ideas?

Seen the new dragonball trailer? >.>

I'd say no-ish...given that Hollywood never had THAT MUCH ideas.

As far as i see it, not that much is different from 10 or 20 years ago. Back then, many of the hyped movies happened to be remakes or book adaptions, too.

No, they haven't run out of ideas, they just keep turning the really good ideas down, thus we end up with the droll that's in the theaters : Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Hollywood stopped making good movies about 5 years ago... Wait, when was the last Kill Bill movie made? Because I'm pretty sure that was the most recent movie I saw that I thought was actually GOOD. Brick was good, too, but I think that movie is older.

I enjoy remakes. Simple as that. Especially of really old movies like King Kong.
Some original ideas turn out to be rubbish. Hollywood has not run out of them, because there are plenty of rubbish movies outh there. Thats my logic on the subject anyway.

As long as movies have a good trailer, I'll go see them.

Yeah.. I'd declare creative bankruptcy over hollywood for the last couple of years. If you'd like something fresh and interesting. Start lokking to foreign language films.

Remakes have been around for far longer, it's just that now there seems to be an influx of them.
Didn't some wise old soul say there were only 5 stories to tell..? Or something along those lines.

Yes. Thread done. Next bland topic that everybody already knows the answer to, please.

Didn't we do this a few weeks ago, same title exactly?

I heard they were making a Legend of Zelda movie! They need to find good books to make movies out of and not just steal the ideas.

L.B. Jeffries:
When did they ever have any? Out of your top five films, name one that isn't based on a comic book, novel, play, or historical figure. Or in recent years, based on a previous film.

Keep in mind a lot of movies will borrow extensively from a novel and just change the name and setting around, so check around. For example, The Royal Tenenbaums is based on J.D. Salinger's short stories about the Glass family.

That`s an awesome answer

It's not the story that makes a good movie, its how that story is told.

There a couple of movies that stick out to me, that I found were really great in their own respects. Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, 13 Tzameti.

I didn`t seem to see any

Everyone's running out of ideas, why do you think there's been so many FPS games that are mostly the same with different back stories.

leecho7:
It's not the story that makes a good movie, its how that story is told.

There a couple of movies that stick out to me, that I found were really great in their own respects. Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, 13 Tzameti.

One that sticks out for me is Serenity, such a good script and backmusic.

canadian_ace:

L.B. Jeffries:
When did they ever have any? Out of your top five films, name one that isn't based on a comic book, novel, play, or historical figure. Or in recent years, based on a previous film.

Keep in mind a lot of movies will borrow extensively from a novel and just change the name and setting around, so check around. For example, The Royal Tenenbaums is based on J.D. Salinger's short stories about the Glass family.

That`s an awesome answer

Similar but not neccesarily stolen. I would say the essence of the film, the story, is Royal faking illness to try to reconnect with his estranged family. Is that in one of the books I haven't read?

Original?
-Pulp Fiction
-Star Wars
-Seven Samurai
-A thought occurs. When you say that Hollywood is doing too many remakes, how can you in the same breath argue that Hollywood never had any ideas? Because a remake has to have originally been an idea. Right?

I'm not neccesarily against remakes, but they shouldn't remake good films, they should remake bad ones with potential, ironing out flaws from the originals.

canadian_ace:
I`ve been watching the movie trailers of the movies just coming out but seriously most of them are movies you have many years ago examples are: King Kong and most recently coming to a theatre near you The Day the earth stood still which is a re-make of a 1953 classic with the same name. In your opinion have they run out of ideas?

The Day The Earth Stood Still is not a remake since it has little to nothing to do with the orginal film.. It is more like turning a great movie into average hollywood shoot-em-all.

I don't mind remakes aslong as the film has been made to put a new spin on a story, perhaps looking at a story from a different angle or perspective. Its like a band doing a cover version. If the band put a different style or spin on a song it can change the song entirely like Jonny Cashs version of Hurt or A Perfect Circles version of Imagine. What is annoying is when Hollywood changes nothing about the film and simply ups the special effects budget. Theres alot of that going around at the moment.

Uskis:
Yeah.. I'd declare creative bankruptcy over hollywood for the last couple of years. If you'd like something fresh and interesting. Start lokking to foreign language films.

Hollywood has never been that inventive, its target is the mainstream. If you want true creativity foreign films or independent films are probably your best bet...

Run out of ideas? Never! They just are very good at picking the stupid ideas to make movies out of. I WANT A DRESDEN MOVIE, DAMMIT!!! OR A MECHWARRIOR MOVIE!!!

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.

Wait a minute...Hollywood HAD ideas at some point?

Aeshi:
Wait a minute...Hollywood HAD ideas at some point?

Earlier in the century, before CGI came and everyone went ohh shiny. :O

Every now and then, a good story comes along and it turns out to be a good movie. My viewpoint is, a movie needs to make me think, to make me feel, and something I can simulate on my computer graphic wise in a video game of some degree doesn't cause me to think very much. :/

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...

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