The Hollywood “We Have No Imagination” Tour continues
So I was looking around online this morning and was struck by how many remakes and continuations/sequels are coming out soon. It pretty much looks like the so called creative types in Hollywood have thrown in the towel and are instead going to continued banking on making money on nostalgic morons who feel some kind of obligation to see a badly made movie based on something they watched as a kid when their brains were softer. Here are a few you can look forward to:
The Cat in the Hat animated (I guess they figure they don’t need Mike Myers). Home Alone 5, starring some new kid (looks like the mug shots of Macaulay Calkin don’t scream super cute kid anymore, although if they really wanted to do something cool they would star him as one of the burglars). Battleship (Are they kidding?). Red Dawn (I think the reason this movie worked back in the day was we were pretty tight in the cold war. Who do they think is going to invade now?). Weird Science. Short Circuit. Friday the 13th. Top Gun (hahahahaha). Judge Dredd. Akira. Annie. All Quite on the Western Front. 
Carrie (Image from the Horror Movie T Shirts). Child’s Play. Evil Dead. Mad Max (gah!). Pet Semetary. Point Break. Robocop. The Birds. The Crow. Barbarella (if this isn’t rated R I’m going to burn down the movie theater. However, since it looks like Katherine Heigl, odds are it won’t be). Drop Dead Fred. Starship Troopers. The NeverEnding Story. The Seven Samuraii. War Games. Time Bandits. American Psycho. Death Wish. Escape from New York. Heavy Metal. Lethal Weapon. Porky’s. Skarface. The Bodyguard. The Warriors. Westworld.
I don’t know how writers in Hollywood can call themselves writers anymore. Xerox machines, more like. Does anyone remember when movies were original and studios would take chances on films? Oh, yeah. Back when all these got made the first time.
Dave
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