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Personally I find the modern remake/sequel/etc trend appalling. Are people really this adverse to trying new things? Are they not tired of the same formulas? I'm more in tune with gaming than movies but even there all I see is constant adaptations of stories from other media.

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I've found more interesting indie games than ever before, there's a Golden Age in television going on, and while I enjoy a good popcorn Marvel movie there's plenty of original thinky stuff like Interstellar to whet my appetite.

Television is good, and the indie game scene is utterly fantastic these days. It just blows my mind how unwilling some of the biggest players in media creation are in terms of being creative.

So you're expecting this conversation to occur?

"For $200 million, we can guarantee return of $1 billion."

"Nah."

Point taken. I guess I misspoke, the onerous is on the market for paying for the repetitive crap.

> Are people really this adverse to trying new things? Are they not tired of the same formulas?

People aren't adverse to trying new things but the movie industry is pretty risk adverse. And as for people being tired of the reboots and remakes the answer is mixed but easy to see in box office returns. Rehashing old ground is fine so long as it's good or is fun to watch. Until these movies start failing en mass industry will keep making them.

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