Movie 'Reboots'

So you need to make a movie, but you're fresh out of ideas, what do you do? One thing would be to head-hunt new and interesting writers, or to keep your eye open for the next visionary director, but those things don't pay the bills, what you really want is more of the same; reliable income, a known quantity.

Then it hits you. Spiderman was made in 2002, that's like a million years by today's attention spans, right? Fuck it, it made good money, let's just make the fucker again! Doesn't matter how good the casting or director was, it's all old news now, we can just do the damned thing again and people will roll up just like last time. We'll call it a 'reboot' because that sounds computery and high-tech, right?

Hollywood must be pretty damned bankrupt in the ideas department right now to be so blatant. Sure, it's not like blockbuster movies carry a stamp of originality and yes, there are some exceptions such as Inception, but the warning signs have been there for a while. Remakes and sequels, adaptations of foreign films on the assumption that the audience won't like something if they have to do some reading, too. 

The Reboot is not just lazy, it's insulting and those responsible should have their lives 'rebooted' with an incontinent mule replacing them in the lead role.