Today's Movies: Isn't there anything I haven't seen already??

I find it absolutely amazing. In the past year, there has been about 3 movies I’ve seen that are genuinely new. Their storyline, plot, characters, everything is new and different. The rest of the movies that have come out have been the same old story, or a remake of the same old story. Either it’s a boy-meets-girl situation, where she’s a sad, lonely, ugly person because she wears glasses and comfortable looking clothes, and she wants the cute, perfect boy, so she loses her glasses, gets her hair cut, and gets some new, trendy, completely uncomfortable looking clothes, then “poof” here’s the man of her dreams begging her to go out with him, which she does, then something goes wrong or gets misunderstood, they break up, then in the last scene, they run into each others’ arms, say “I’m sorry honey and I love you and always have and always will,” and then they assumedly live happily every after. This story like is a good one, for maybe the first one hundred times it has been used, but by now, it’s getting old. Now, they just toss in something bizarre, like the nerdy girl turns out to be a superhero, or the woman is substantially older than the man. It’s just getting so old!

And then there are the remakes of old movies. Just because the movie was made over 10 years ago, without all of the magical technology we have now does not mean that it isn’t a good movie and really doesn’t mean that it absolutely must get remade! Now, King Kong was good. Peter Jackson did a nice job on it and I think really honored the old movie, but look at War of the Worlds. The original was so interesting because we weren’t even close to developing the technology those aliens had and we really didn’t have the technology to kill them all (which is probably why they were killed off by some sort of fungus; exactly what that fungus was has never been named). But I even think that the first one shouldn’t have been made. Orson Welles did such an amazing job with the radio show and it’s sad that many people in my generation haven’t heard it. It makes the listener use their imagination to see what these alien machines looked like; people had to imagine what it would be like if these aliens were attacking; the first time it aired, actually, people didn’t have to imagine their reactions because they all thought it was real, even though there were numerous statements read throughout the program to tell listeners that it wasn’t real. But everyone listening had to imagine what it was like, imagine what he was telling them since they couldn’t exactly walk out their back door and say, “Oh gee Ma, there’s this alien thing out here.”

I’ll never understand why people can’t come up with something different. It’s so nice to see something different from everything else out there that I tend to run out and buy the DVD just so I can preserve it and watch it when I start pulling my hair out from the repetition. Please, Hollywood, get an imagination and dream up something, ANYTHING NEW!!! STOP using the same old, TIRED story lines OVER AND OVER AND OVER again!! Please, for the sanity of those people who pay your salary, the public!!