Parrots

In this story from Reuters we find that Hollywood is on a binge of movie remakes, going over old territory in the hopes of making a profit in an industry that has seen a big fall off of consumer interest. That there has been an exodus from the movie theatre should come as no surprise given the level of contempt and hate that Hollywood has shown for "the little people" in flyover country. How many anti-Iraq war movies did they make? I lost count, but I know that every one of them flopped at the box office. And yet they can't seem to help themselves, and they keep giving us more anti-American poison. We as a nation have demonstrated that we don't really want that kind of product, but they keep on dumping it on us like some kind of pimped up drug pusher hoping for a big score.

The 1980s have turned into a full-fledged garage sale of titles. "Romancing the Stone," "Footloose," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Dune," "The Karate Kid," "Red Dawn," "RoboCop," "The Big Chill," "Arthur," "Ghostbusters" and "The NeverEnding Story" are but a few of the titles from that decade being developed in Hollywood.

I can't think of any good reason why any of these films need to be done again. It seems unlikely that a remake will provide a better product that the original. (Dune may be an exception here, but then again the SciFi channel already did a remake that was pretty good so why do we need a third one?)

To my way of thinking this reflects the failure of the government monopoly education system that no longer turns out educated students. Back in the day, we were expected to actually know things and read books. Actual learning had to take place if you wanted to graduate. Now the schools are all about political indoctrination. So what if the students can't read or write? At least they love Obama and mouth the right slogans.

Such individuals are incapable of original thought, or even of recognizing it in others.

They have been reduced literally to the level of parrots; repeating what they have heard before without the ability to understand it.