[caww]

Hollywood can’t put out anything original because they have lost the ability for creativity.......all these reruns and reboots have terrible new actors as well. No talent as they all look and sound like they’re acting rather than assuming the character they’re playing.

[TontoKowalski]

I can't disagree with your comments about creativity.

But I think it's more than that.

First, there is very little I'm interested in seeing in a theater. It's not even my disgust at Hollywood's politics. Every big new release seems to be derived from a comic book, or, as you point out, a retread. I know this isn't exactly a fresh take on a new movie, but it's relevant to the discussion... was there really any need to remake True Grit?

Second, it's the expense. Not just the ticket price. Popcorn and a drink? Junior Mints? It's worse than theme park pricing.

Finally, it's the behavior of the movie-going public. Cell phones, people carrying on conversations at full voice, that sort of thing. Somewhere we as a society lost a sense of plain old common courtesy, the virtue of respecting others.

I'm trying to think of the last time I ventured to a movie theater, and I think it was to watch Zero Dark Thirty. It's been that long, and I don't miss it.

Of course, maybe things have changed since my last visit to a movie theater. Someone will have to advise me of that.

[be-baw]

Looks like Ford vs. Ferrari (just opened) will do well. I’m sure A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood will do great.

[jmacusa]

I agree. Hollywood has become a grotesque parody of itself. It's Norma Desmond wandering through her cavernous and empty mansion dreaming of past glories and waiting for her close up.

[LouAvul]

Hollywood can’t put out anything original because they have lost the ability for creativity are under strict orders by studios to incessantly push leftist ideology and immorality and politics.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Hollywood can’t put out anything original because they have lost the ability for creativity.

There's plenty of creativity in Hollywood, and lots of good ideas. The problem is that with even a low-budget movie costing tens of millions of dollars, the bean counters want to bet on as sure of things as they can find, and that means things that people already know. Go to blcklst.com and read some of the scripts that get voted by industry execs as their favorites. But with rare exceptions, they won't be produced because an accountant hired a consultant to run a focus group and someone there wrote on a card that they didn't understand the idea and wouldn't go see that movie. There's plenty of creativity, but creative people don't make the call of what to make and what not to make. Business people who have to report to boards of directors and shareholders do, and it's easier to defend losing money on Charlie's Angels than it is some idea that no one ever heard of.