Hollywood has no new ideas.

I was reading about some upcoming movies recently and this article absolutely infuriated me.

Basically the lazy asses in Hollywood have green lighted the remake of the 1984 classic, Red Dawn, which is one of my favorite movies of all time.

The last ten years or so have seen a plethora of retread movies that were already made. I get that the older movies don't appeal to everyone, but are there any new ideas out there? Are the writers in Hollywood so goddamned lazy that they can't bother to come up with an original idea? I will give them some kudos for bringing certain movies to the silver screen. Namely most of the Marvel comics movies as well as some stuff from the DC Universe but still, all the writers did for those movies was to take the basic storyline, dumb it down for ten year old's and morons, and voila! Box office bucks!

And don't think the mindless action movies from the 80's are all that are going to be hacked apart ladies. 16 Candles? Can't Buy Me Love? Pretty in Pink? All the classics that make you thirty-somethings still swoon and feel like a little girl are going to be turned into bubble-gum bullshit. If the powers that be in Hollywood decide to do a remake of The Breakfast Club I will definitely vent some serious frustration all over my keyboard.

I suppose I should be somewhat happy that a whole new generation of young people will get too see a movie based on Red Dawn, a movie that I liked. It's a different time however now in 20XX or whenever the movie gets released. Back in 84, the red scare was real. The Soviets were a threat, and the nuclear arms race was in full effect. The original Red Dawn wasn't exactly plausible, but the worry was there. They launch theirs, we launch ours, total annihilation for the human race. That, my friends, is the epitome of serious business!

-Twiz