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Has Hollywood Run Out of Ideas?

November 20th, 2007 11:49am EST Post a comment

There no longer seems to be much originality in Hollywood. When did the ability to sit down and write a captivating screenplay from scratch go out of style? It seems that Hollywood is stuck on turning cartoons and video games into movies. And there's the predatory sequel often lurking and waiting to be as bad as the original movie or better, if we're lucky.

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Tue Nov 20 2007 17:49:14 By: Alexander Pollock (

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Unfortunately, the way the film industry operates, it is not condusive to accepting any film ideas from the outside world. One must have an agent to even start any dialogue with a movie production company.
As a result, very few films have any originality.

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Tue Nov 20 2007 19:43:01 By: Britneysucks (

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Nice article, well written, Doshka!
I totally agree, but I also feel that these days it's like games, less focus on the storyline and more on the technology about it (Matrix being case in point). New tech comes out, all the movies have to be done as such, it gets boring.

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Tue Nov 20 2007 21:36:30 By: smbbmm (

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Hollywood has out of ideas. They did a good job with Aeon Flux & Hitman. They need to team up with WWE's creative & writers.

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