Exhaustion of Ideas

Billions are being set aside each year by people around the globe just for watching movies in the cinemas. The rationale for doing so varies. Some of them go to watch movies in the cinemas as they want to enjoy their favorite movies on a huge screen, some of them go to the cinemas as they do not have a VCD or more recently DVD-player at home. Another group of these people go to the cinemas simply because they want to socialize with friends, family members or with their loved ones. Whatever the reason is, these people are spending a huge amount of money per year.

Well, the reason why this article is written is not to blabber about people who go to the cinemas and splurge their money, making the owners of the cinemas richer and richer in the process of course. It is people’s right to spend their hard-earned money in whichever way that they like. They can even choose to throw their month’s salary into the ocean, it is their choice. Who am I to control them? That’s beside the point. So, the purpose of the writing of this article is actually to assess the quality as well as the worthiness to spend those dollars/pounds/rubles or whatever currency it may be for the movies.

First and foremost, people in many generations have witnessed lots and lots of movies. There have been any types of the movies that are produced. From love stories to violence story about war. It has been incredible to see how the media has been flourishing since the first movie was created in the world.

However, ideas that can be generated by human brains are limited. In fact, ideas for good movies have run out. This is evident in the 21^st century. We could easily see that the movies that are emerging in this century lack creativity and innovation. There is simply no new stories being created whatsoever. Every movie that comes out is either a sequel to an already existing movie (such as Spiderman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, to infinity :P) , a movie adaptation of novels (such as the infamous Harry Potter. Infamous!), or simply a spin-off to a successful movie (such as Star Wars).

This is really disappointing as people are longing for new things, not the same thing over and over again. It is good to see Spiderman flying around with his web for once or twice, but thrice? Beat it! Furthermore, the third sequel for Spiderman was not up to standard and many people came out of the cinema frowning. This is so disappointing. It seems that Hollywood has run out of ideas to create new movies, but to generate profit and to sustain their image, movies must still be generated and as a result of this, combined with the lack of new ideas, sequels after sequels are and will be created.

Again, using Spiderman as a gage, I am not really surprised of in 10 years time, we could still see Spiderman 8, Spiderman 9, Spiderman 10 being screened in the cinemas. If this is the case, going to the cinema will no longer be an option, at least for me. This also makes me realize that everything in this world is limited, not only fossil fuels are limited. But simply everything…