[Ocracoke Island]

So what is happening here? Has everybody in Hollywood gone simultaneously insane? Are the corridors of power wholly populated by men of a certain age with Optimus Prime dolls on their desks, A-Team box-sets in their bags and David Hasselhoff pictures on their walls? Or are we simply witnessing a savvy marketing trend that knows how to snag a swath of financially solvent former Generation X-ers, and their kids?

Um .. maybe it's the same 20-year retro cycle that's being going on for ages. Just maybe.

[Fledermaus]

Actually, they have just ran out of original material to write about and won't make movies from anything intellectual because they fear the morons that go to movies will snooze.

I hear they are finally going to make "Atlas Shrugged" and I'm totally convinced they'll ruin it.

[Berosus]

Yes, I have noticed the same trend since "Happy Days" dominated TV in the 1970s. Fashions, TV shows, etc. enjoy a comeback twenty years later, whether or not they were cool the first time around. In that sense, the only surprise is that these movies didn't appear a few years earlier. Maybe it's because we don't have a good name for this decade yet, and now it's more than halfway over.