Worthless and Weak

Of the 31 highest grossing films of the year so far, a full 16 of them are unoriginal, (either a re-make, a sequel, or based on a TV show or video game).

Of the remaining 15 films, a full five of them are comedies, which are sort of immune from the re-make and adaptation craze. (the only unoriginal comedy on the list was Sex and the City 2). At least one of these originals (Percy Jackson) was surely made with the concept of creating a series.

Looking at the unoriginal films, half of them just scream "what's the point?" Now, some of the sequels are understandable, I mean, of course Twilight and Iron Man are getting sequels, Hollywood cleaned up on those, but not all of them. Many of these seem to have the same plot and title as another film. (The Karate Kid, The Wolf Man, Clash of the Titans, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc).

Now, credit where credit is due, at least Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood, and Sherlock Holmes seem to do something new with the material, but come on, do we really need another Robin Hood movie?

What really gets me is that virtually any comic book is now made into a movie. And ones that nobody has every heard of and bomb at the box office. I mean, how many people know about "Kick Ass" or "The Losers?" Or for that matter Jonah Hex? Or even Watchmen?

It wasn't always like this, in 1995, only 7 of the top 31 movies were unoriginal. And of those, half of them were sequels to really popular movies, (a Batman Movie, a Bond Movie, and a Die Hard Movie). So what happened? Are they really making more money like this?

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