Anyway, yea, Hollywood is afraid of original ideas, everything has to be connected to a franchise or band name in some way and it\’s getting worse and worse. It\’s really sad to see. Some remakes/sequels can be good, but for every remake/sequel, one equal project that is an original story should be greenlit. We just need more strong original ideas that aren\’t crappy romantic comedies.

Most studio heads come from a business & finance background- not a filmmaking background. You would think these cowardly studio heads would have a clue or some type of inkling that most movie audiences want to see films that are fresh, clever , imaginative, and timeless.

Thank God, we have these geniuses and trailblazers that continue to take risks, pursue quality, and truly understands films : Harvey Weinstein, James Schamus, Tom Bernard, and producer Scott Rudin.

\”Inception\” was an original idea that also happened to be a blockbuster action movie – this article ignores that plenty of original ideas and \”thoughtful\” movies get made every year that aren\’t action based and don\’t require those kind of budgets.

It seems stupid to list a whole bunch of kids sequels which are um, geared towards kids/parents. \”Alvin and the Chipmunks 4\” and \”Cars 3\” aren\’t going to stop any \”original thoughtful\” movies from getting made. They are just smart business moves with a huge target audience (kids/parents) that it knows how to please. if anything, those type of movies are going to make studios enough money to bankroll other films and be able to absorb losses.

It\’s not like your only choices summer 2012 are going to be \”Battleship,\” \”Snow White\” and \”The Other Snow White.\” While those are playing will plenty of other lower budgeting more \”adult\” or \”indie\” type fare.

I\’d like to know a movie potentially as good as \”Inception\” that is being rejected everywhere it\’s shopped.

A movie like \”Looper\” is getting made, on a smaller type budget, but if it hits, I\’m sure it\’s director will get a shot at a larger scale film.

The true sign that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt isn\’t the number of planned sequels and remakes but the canonization of Inception by this and similar websites.

I can only think of that I want to see is Hanna and Looper.

I am sick of remakes/sequels, and do hope someone will come up with some original ideas soon.

Also can we get rid of those damn romantic comedies. (this is coming from a female)

Also, most of this year\’s big successes – Black Swan, The Fighter, Social Network, Inception, True Grit – were clearly helped, in no small measure, by the auteurs that made them. Original films are great, but they very rarely break through without the director\’s reputation preceding them. Even District 9 had the Peter Jackson stamp. The only real breakthrough this year was The King\’s Speech, and that, it seems, succeeded because of Harvey Weinstein.

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Chris Nolan is actually partly to blame for this since The Dark Knight, along with 2007\’s top movies being mostly sequels and adaptations, probably inspired this year\’s sequel heavy sked.

And as Scott Rudin said, nobody wants to bank of execution. You can completely botch a known product like The Last Airbender and still make 100 million. If you screw up an original idea, it\’s going to take a lot of slick marketing, throwing good money after bad, to help bring in an audience.