"Hollywood, stop with the remakes and sequels" “Why not more original movies?” “We need original movies and franchises, why we still have sequels and remakes?” Each time I hear phrases like these, I think: Do moviegoers these days actually want originality from Hollywood, or are they begging too much? I say this because some of the most original and good movies of, for example, this decade, unfortunately:
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1) Become an undeserved box office bomb, because most moviegoers go to see other movies that they supposedly hate for copying concepts
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2) When you think some of them might be present in pop-culture history years after its release, they go unnoticed and are forgotten for the next anticipated sequel and remake.
We speak about wanting originality, to not see sequels and remakes, so they gross less and more original movies are made, but then what? 2016 alone was chock-full of interesting original films that, unfortunately, didn’t last much in the memory of the public, or grossed less than expected on the box office, specially when some of them might have potential for a sequel, spin-off or whatever. We should ask ourselves: Do we really want originality, or we lie to ourselves on saying so?