This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths – just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.
Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.
Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu.
There's a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches - those same old wacky characters!
