Why has the movie industry lost all creativity in...

[trrocks03]

...new stories and movie ideas? Everything seems to be either a remake, sequel, book adaption, or video game to movie...movie. Why arent original ideas being produced anymore?

[deann_lyn]

I don't know but it's depressing isn't it. Everything can't be used up already....lol I mean people are still writing best selling novels.

[code_red]

Laziness. Plan and simple. Its real sad that movies have gone to crap lately. I've been filling my collection with a lot of older movies then some of the popcorn type crap movies that are out now.

[Mr. Scandalous]

For the most part, we as a society already peaked years ago. So, forward into the past!!

[gregory_dittman]

Money. They make more money with the idea they own than the idea they buy.

[myloveismusic11]

Because they are too busy remaking old movies and screwing up the plots. There hasn't been a good movie since Tim Burton did anything!!!!! No one is smart enough there to have any creativity!!! even the writers have writers!!!!

[samurai_taliban]

i still think the movie industry is pretty creative ....why don't u try to change the plot????

[the_kid_can_whale]

they haven't... its just the box office draws are usually not original, but there are tons of great movies that i see pretty much every day that i've never heard of.

[johnb693]

There is many reasons why the movie industry has stagnated in recent years.One, they rarely make films for adults anymore, one that will make a person, think and feel, about the story and characters.It's all about the money, a Blockbuster. The major audience now, is made up of mostly young boys, ages thirteen or so.So you get all those idiotic comic book movies, old TV sitcoms, etc. Action shows, where they use tons of dynamite to blow up buildings.The kids love those and come back again and again. Hence those movies make money. Films that are intelligent, and they still make a few, usually by independent film makers, take time to grow, and spread with word of mouth.The film exhibitors, won't wait that long, if it doesn't make momey in the first couple of weeks, they stop showing it.One more thing, now it seems to be all about the actors, who get those $20,000,000.00 paychecks, irregardless of how the movie does, or even if its good. They seem to forget, if you don't have a decent writer, writing a decent script, it's all garbage.It's entertainment. It's the story that counts, if the words aren't on the page, the actor, can't say them, the director, cannot direct it, The cinemaphotograher, can't film it. And we as an audience, can't watch it.It's the same with T.V. all for that magic audience of 18 to 39 year olds. We know how fickle they are.Anyone, who watches the old movies on channels like TMC etc, and see's the performances and those great actors of the past, realizes, just how much we have lost.It's a pity, as the movies are a truly American art form.

[kevin_bell70]

Hollywood is full of greedy, smarmy, narcissistic, uncreative, closed minded idiots, with few exceptions. How can you have creative ideas when everyone has the same social, religious, political, philisophical agenda? Not everyone is a liberal hack, but that's all Hollywood seems to be filled with these days. That's why there's no creativity.