I just read an article about how they might reboot Batman after the next movie comes out.  Are you kidding me?!  They’re already talking about milking the cow AGAIN before the next movie comes out?

They do this all the damn time!  It shouldn’t come as any big surprise that Hollywood is out of ideas.  They’ve been telling the same six or seven stories over and over for twenty years now.  They’re starting the Spiderman series over already and it’s already setup with a sequel in the works.  The FIRST MOVIE ISN’T EVEN DONE AND THEY’RE MAKING A SEQUEL! C’mon man!

Do you wonder why Harry Potter is so successful?  Part of it is that it speaks to children and to the inner child of adults.  Part of it is that the series has grown up with its audience.  I think a lot of it is that it was something new!  But hey… if Harry Potter works, so would something almost identical!  How about Percy Jackson?!

Wait a second!  Independence Day made tons of money… what about Battlefield: Los Angeles?!  YEAH!

The worst part is that we keep feeding the beast by going to these stink-tacular pieces of garbage.  It’s really too bad that the “indie scene” takes themselves so seriously and puts out depressing, over dramatic sob-fests.  They’re the ones that can come out with adventurous movies.  And by adventurous, I mean movies that might not do well and have the massive broad spectrum appeal.  They take chances.

Until a mega-company like Disney comes along and buys them up.

[UPDATE] – Now it seems that dipping into the 80′s movies is the method of regurgitating everything that’s in fashion today.  In addition to remaking Footloose and The Smurfs (which wasn’t a movie to start with, and shouldn’t be now) they’re remaking War Games.  Good god.  Why stop there?  How about remaking The Usual Suspects, Godfather or Gone With the Wind?