"It's a complaint now as cliched as the thing it's meant to criticize: Hollywood has completely lost its appetite for originality.
It's a statement simultaneously true and exaggerated. On one hand, it's undeniable that the big studio system seems more interested than ever in mining every conceivable piece of known IP available, to the detriment of new stories; on the other, this is not exactly a new phenomenon, as Hollywood has always taken previous material to craft a movie, be it a book, a TV show, or the most common of all, remakes.
And that's what makes this old "Hollywood is not original" truism fundamentally wrong, because it's meant as a statement of quality – that all remakes are a creatively bankrupt endeavor. But the fact is that remakes can often become masterpieces; some of the biggest staples of pop culture today are remakes."
