Remakes, rehashes, reboots, sequels, prequels, resequels, cinematic universes and now they're just making movies out of popular animes. After GitS we're now getting Death Note USA. Whats next, Westernized bollywood flicks?

It feels like creatively this is one of the worst decades.

Totally agree. For younger people it's probably great, but I'm only 30 ( I know old as dicks) but yeah it's just like you said. I mean apperently Spiderman is getting Rebooted again, the first reboots don't even seem that old to me, the ones with Toby mguire and kristen dunst. The Dark Knight Trilogy are among my favourite films though

Yeah, I want to go back when movies were only all based on books. The true age of creativity.

No, its just that proven franchises usually sell the most.
Much like videogames, doing a new gen of Pokemon - call it "Pokemon Ass and Pokemon Boobs" - would sell more than any new IP. Rarely would a new IP sell as high as lets say, Horizon.
Production values are high so new film ideas usually struggle.

Incidentally, Pokemon Ass would be better than Pokemon Boobs... it just has better content.

It's probably not only that, movies are becoming more expensive to make, that means taking less risks and sticking to things you know work. Kind of how the gaming industry has been heading for a while.

Yeah this is basically what i was saying aswell :) 

It's mostly about making money, as is with a lot of the music industry.

Not at all. You're just looking at big feature films. There are a multitude of smaller films and indie films that are released every year with very interesting and original ideas, some even feature big name actors/actresses. These folks don't get the same exposure however because of small marketing budgets and they see limited theatrical release. But yeah, plenty of great and original films come out every month.

Too many shallow and crappy action movies, and too many super-hero movies for my linking.

Hollywood movies seem to have hit a wall or something, its been a bad year or two.

If all you do is watch the crap mainstream studios and producers feed to you then it may seem that way.