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Originally Posted by BajanYankee
Looks good but isn't this basically the same thing as Stand by Me?
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Yeah, I thought much the same thing. I'm sure the pitch meeting for this movie went something like, "What if we did STAND BY ME ... but with girls?"
Still, that in itself isn't a bad thing. If you're gonna steal, at least steal good stuff.
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Originally Posted by BajanYankee
I think humanity may have run out of ideas for original movies.
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Depends on what you mean by "original," I guess, but I don't think so. There are lots of really creative people with great ideas in Hollywood. The problem is that most of them have no money, so they have to rely on studios and other producers to finance the projects, and if there is one thing studio execs and producers do NOT like, it is risk. They want a safe bet.
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KNIVES OUT. Now KNIVES OUT was certainly not "original" if by that you mean: Like nothing I have ever seen before. It was very much in the tradition of Agatha Christie, only with a heavy does of humor thrown in. In style and tone, it was a movie whose like I have not seen since at least the '80s. So I wouldn't call it original. But it was definitely nothing like any other movie you currently see on the big screen.
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