Face it, Hollywood hasn't been TRULY creative since pre-WWII. Since then, it's been rehashes, with occasional flashes of brilliance.

Please don't bring up World War 2 and Hollywood in context with each other --- I'm still traumatized by "Pearl Harbor: A Love Story". DX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtDTy_UuDA

DX

They're stuck in a nihilistic rut, by the look of things. (I wonder if this is due to general real-world failure to address frogboiler problems.)

That's a definite possibility --- that Hollywood is simply a reflection the rest of USA as a whole.

No competitiveness, no regard for originality, no regard for customers, wasting a ton of money on make-work projects with no real regard for profits, and a few people running the whole show who all hobnob together and think alike.

The only thing missing so far are colossal fraud and embezzlement scandals, mass-firings, abandonment of talent, and shipping all the jobs overseas.

Hmm, I wonder if that's why macrofur stuff has devaloped runaway popularity in the fandom. The casual, nihilistic sociopathy and Fridge Horror do seem to point at potential real-world problems for people at the keyboard, perhaps a sense of powerlessness or an empathy deficit. (Two words: "Instrumentality Plot.") Then again, I've only had Introduction to Psychology, so I'm not really qualified to speculate about the workings of others' minds.

It's sad to watch this stuff happen, that's for sure.

Man, The Host is written by the Twilight lady.

And the trailer I saw for WWZ makes me very, very unhappy.

This Is The End looks dumb.

Aside from that, I love post-apoc, so I'm happy.

I do too --- but I don't like Post-Apocalyptic Spamming.

Better'n vampires.

I know, right? I remember way back in the day when Vampires just killed people. XD

Yup.

They used to have style. Now they're just pale-faced adolescent sociopaths.

XD

The imagination record is stuck in the same groove. They need to move on to something else or keep better track of what's being made to avoid this. (yeah right)

Whenever they do try something different, it will be different only in relation to the previous meme --- they'll all still do the same thing.

Remember when "Twister" and "Tornado" hit the theaters at about the same time? A year earlier, there was "Night of the Twisters"

How about "Volcano: The Coast is Toast" and "Dante's Peak", both in 1997?

In the 1970s, there was "Airport", "Airport 1975", "Airport '77", "The Concorde ... Airport '79", "Airplane!", "Airplane II: The Sequel", "SST: Death Flight", "Terror in the Skies", "Skyjacked", and "Murder On Flight 502".

It happened again in 2005, with "Red Eye" and "Flightplan". "Flight 93", "United 93" and "United 300" were all released in 2006.

1998 gave us both "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact".

2004 and 2005 brought us "Flight of the Phoenix" and "Sahara", which both follow the "escape from the desert by MacGuyvering a vehicle from an airplane wreck" meme.

Or maybe you like movies about cold climates? 2004 gave us both "Absolute Zero" and "Post Impact", and 2 years later there was "The Day After Tomorrow". Seriously, two year later --- they KNEW BETTER, and they did it anyway.


I've saved the worst offense for last. Remember the Vietnam War Movie meme in the 1980s?

1985-90 alone gave us "In Love and War", "Platoon", "Platoon Leader", "Full Metal Jacket", "A Mission to Kill", "Strike Commando", "Vietnam War Story II", "Bullet in the Head ", "Eye of the Eagle 2", "Good Morning, Vietnam", "The Hanoi Hilton", "1969", "Gardens of Stone", "Casualties of War", "Combat Shock", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Riverbend", "The Siege of Firebase Gloria", "Love & Death in Saigon", "Off Limits", "Behind Enemy Lines", "In Country", "Air America", "Final Reprisal", "Missing in Action 2", "Missing in Action 3", "Distant Thunder", and "Hamburger Hill".

That's 29 different Vietnam War films (assuming I counted them all correctly) in the span of only 5 years --- an average of almost 6-per-year. Just for fun, look-up the plots of all these Vietnam War movies, and try to see how many you can find that have unique stories AND were good movies.


Also, note that I've only included 2 genres; war and disaster movies.

Let's not forget the stream of 'b' movies that's been showing up on the Scifi channel. (Hoooooboy!!!)

Dang!!! You brought back some good and bad memories there

Who can forget (I did to clear out the junk drawer) the disaster flicks. Nealy all I didn't go see just because the looked bad. The Airports only the original the rest ... feh.Only 2 nam movies were woth it the rest was .....

but I get it. *shakes head*