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Originally Posted by subpain
You're right saying it's nothing new, but it's been going on way before King Kong. I think the one that really set things off was The Ring. A large amount of horror movies out in the past few years have all been remakes of Asian horror films (From The Grudge, to Eye and Shutter, as well as Pulse, One Missed Call and more).
Mainstream Hollywood is just out of ideas. There are tons of amazing films still being made - they just aren't making it to the big screen.
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True enough, true enough. I don't follow Hollywood too often, but I get the impression that the movie business isn't out of new ideas, its just that they don't really support them. It seems these days that if your film has the trait of being "cinematically original," then that is pretty much the commercial death of said film.
The big studios don't give directors of such films respectable funding or respectable marketing. So the directors with the skill and ability to make such projects are stuck glorifying big name franchises to pay the bills to make their own "true" movies. So basically it comes down to the artist selling their souls, just for the opportunity to express their souls.
Two examples of such travesty being Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, who are pretty much the the Leonardo and Michaelangelo of modern filmaking. Cuaron had to direct
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in order to bring in cash to pay for his masterpiece
Prisoner of Men. Del Toro followed a similar path, but seems to have gotten into an even worse situation than him. Pan's Labyrinth was one of the best films I've ever seen, but Del Toro had to fund it by filming the vastly inferior Blade II and Hellboy movies(Cauron even helped produce PL). And now just after the filming of Hellboy 2, he's taken on the task of filming the Hobbit, which is to be unnecessarily split into two movies. It seems we'll have to wait atleast half a decade to even see Del Toro attempt an original again.