The lack of originality from Hollywood

Over the last decade, it has been hard for anyone to not notice that the entertainment industry has gotten just plain lazy. TV producers have decided to put on as much "reality" shows on the tube as possible with the adverse effect being that any original programing that fails to reach the network's (think of the big broadcast networks) arbitrary benchmark gets canceled at the first chance while crappy reality shows stay on for time indefinite (as long as it's the right kind of crappy).

In the arena of movies, the creative deficit has been resulted in sequels, prequels, remakes, and countless adaptations of books and comics getting green lit all the time. At first, I thought that it was based on Baby Boomer nostalgia, but that was until I more or less found out that Generation X was making its mark in Hollywood. So, my mindset went to thinking that it had to be Gen-X nostalgia from older Xers. However, as the years have passed, the lack of original movies is based on nothing more than the Hollywood studios being risk-averse--i.e., lazy. They are so afraid to lose money that they only go with safe bets. This assessment was confirmed on the "2 Guys Named Chris" show yesterday morning when Deidre told film critic Mark Burger about how her friend wants to get into the film business. The friend told Deidre that Hollywood gets original ideas all the time but that the studios want to only go with the givens (all of this was confirmed by Burger).