Beginning to be repetitive? C'mon, when has the industry changed? The only that has changed are concepts driving the genre. Every action has been the same since the beginning of time. The only thing that has changed are directing styles, and the theme behind them. The anywhere from Star Wars, with your space heroes, Indiana Jones with your jungle adventurist, to James Bond the suave and smooth spy, The Matrix with the cool cats and ass kicking, its all the same formula. Personal Tragedy/born to be a hero, woman/someone important needs to be saved and possibly the world. What makes it interesting, are those few times when someone comes up with something new to spice it up, whether it be good writing and a fun time, like IJ or something wild and spectacular like the Matrix was when it came out. Right now all the action movies are going through the "cool matrix/crouching tiger special effects fighting" stage. I think it's exciting when someone can do something interesting with an industry standard, whether it be an action movie, romantic comedy, whatever... when someone can actually inject something interesting into it, it becomes very cool in my book.
As far as comic book adaptations... they are gold... I loved super hero comics as a kid, and I'm gonna eat up every adaptation they make now, whether they be great (spiderman, xmen 2, hulk [yes some didnt like it, i thought it was well done], first two batmans, etc) or crap (daredevil). :D
What do you guys feel about the "mini hollywood-independent" films that are cropping up recently, such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State and Lost in Translation? I personally loved all 3 movies, but they arent really truely indy like it used to be...
hmmmm
