Movie Reboots

I have been noticing a trend in the movie industry that's becoming more and more common and seems to not be slowing down in any way. Apparently there has not been many new ideas for movies and so the industry has resorted to simply redoing old movies and sticking the newest and hottest stars in it in order to appeal to a younger and younger audience. It has become this never ending cycle reboots and do overs of famous franchises. I cannot help but feel like it is cheapening the entire process of legitimate screen writers coming up with great new ideas and movies that will entertain and enchant the population. I am getting tired of seeing commercials and ads again and again for the same movie but with different actors and actresses. I can barely tell them apart anymore. Then everyone gets confused about which film they are talking about because they are even named similarly. It is also funny because they end up being released within like five years of each other. I can barely keep up anymore.

It is very obvious that the movie industry does this in order to make more money by bringing the franchises to young audiences so they can get their parents to buy tickets to the movie and then buy all the merchandise for the movie. It is as if they cannot imagine a parent could possibly just show their child the original, or even the redone version. No, they have to create an all new version to put in theaters and charge ungodly prices for 3D, and put all new figurines, t-shirts, backpacks, and Halloween costumes in stores for equally ungodly prices. I have seen it happen with the Hulk movie franchise, the Terminator franchise, and the Superman franchise. They just keep coming out with both sequels and complete redoes of the original movies. There is also talk of Michael Bay possibly making a full-length feature film of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1093471p1.html. The last feature film of the franchise was a computer animated film made in 2007, before that there was the first movie of the series, a live action released in 1990. I have no doubts that this will lead to a brand new line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stuffed animals, action figures, and hoodies. I am also sure that future sequels will follow. Movie industry moguls know that reboots are a huge money-maker for them, so I really do not see an end to this trend anytime soon, but that does not mean I will be happy with it. It has just become so predictable that it takes the fun out of being excited to see a favorite movie of yours being redone, because it is possibly just for the money so it may not even be any good. People are going to pay to see it no matter what, so quality is not really seen as important.

The Amazing Spider-man is an upcoming reboot of the 2002 Spiderman franchise starring Tobey Maguire. The third sequel of which only came out in 2007. Yet another example of the cycle of money making in the movie industry. Here is the trailer: