2006: TV is better than movies?

[Shellhead]

In recent weeks, two different action movies have been compared to the tv show "24", and found lacking. This got me thinking... Hollywood has been serving up a lot of really uncreative crap lately. Remakes of older movies, remakes of older tv shows, uninspired sequels, and book-to-movie adaptations.

When was the last time that a big movie came out with a fresh concept?

Meanwhile, mainstream network tv has got some fairly original and very popular shows going on right now: Lost, "24", Prisonbreak, Desperate Housewives, Medium, House, and Veronica Mars. Personally, I'm not a fan of most of these shows, but I do recognize that they are very popular, and getting more attention than most new movies these days.

So what's up with Hollywood? Where is the talent, the creativity, the excitement? What went wrong?

[adamthered]

I think it is, at least this year. This season my wife and I watched more TV shows than usual and I can probably count the number of movies I've seen in the theatre this year on one hand. Though summer movie season is here and that will change soon.

But yeah, TV this season was quite good, lots of genre programming and just all around well written, well acted, and extremely satifsying stories being presented, for free.

[Forefinger]

In recent weeks, two different action movies have been compared to the tv show "24", and found lacking. This got me thinking... Hollywood has been serving up a lot of really uncreative crap lately. Remakes of older movies, remakes of older tv shows, uninspired sequels, and book-to-movie adaptations.

When was the last time that a big movie came out with a fresh concept?

Meanwhile, mainstream network tv has got some fairly original and very popular shows going on right now: Lost, "24", Prisonbreak, Desperate Housewives, Medium, House, and Veronica Mars. Personally, I'm not a fan of most of these shows, but I do recognize that they are very popular, and getting more attention than most new movies these days.

So what's up with Hollywood? Where is the talent, the creativity, the excitement? What went wrong?
The TV people hired all the good people.

[LtMarvel]

Entertainment Weekly had been claiming this for years. Sopranos and Homicide were the first series to seriously outshine everything on the silver screen...