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Originally Posted by skinsguy

No one really said Hollywood was running out of ideas. We're just saying Hollywood has not been as creative as it appears it has been in the past. And it's possible that reasoning is because they are focusing on the "sure thing" big name movie. Kind of makes me think Vinny Cerrato is managing Hollywood...lol!

But, I would also argue if Hollywood is being run more by business men, then those businessmen obviously are stuck in the past in regards to distribution of their works.

Yeah exactly. I would also guess that that more entertainment is being consumed now than ever before, because entertainment is cheaper, more readily available, and because of unrelated technological advances that give us much more time to spend entertaining ourselves. With so much demand, retreading old stuff allows suppliers to better fulfill that demand.

But I would say that there may have been a bit of a “magical moment” that changed creativity once creator and consumer were both given the immediate ability to have cultural and historical reference to everything and anything. Generation Y has so far failed at creating a musical genre and many of the products that people from all surviving generations want seem to take cues from the past; from movies to cars to art and fashion. Current artistic creativity seems to be less fully original and it seems this all started when we entered the “information age”.