Warp wrote:

>   Is it just me, or is Hollywood trying lately to cash on the success of
> the LotR movies by making tons of similarly-themed fantasy movies based
> on random fantasy books? Take a more or less successful fantasy book,
> pour staggering amounts of money to produce a movie from it, and success
> is guaranteed? For me the whole thing is getting tiresome.

Just about anything that is successful will be emulated.  This is why 
our politicians claim to be the next Kennedy or Reagan (depending on 
their party affiliation).

The success of the Spiderman and Fantastic 4 films has led to a heap of 
movies based on all manner of DC and Marvel superheroes, although some 
of them have been quite good; since the characters are someone's IP, if 
they're smart they'll ensure that the scripts are good.

There has also been a slew of computer animations, many of which are 
boring and/or stupid.  At first Pixar was the only real player in the 
game, and then Dreamworks joined and had some success, and then there 
were several from other studios that weren't very interesting.

Regards,
John

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