I don’t go to the movies much anymore, due to my recurring impulse to violently murder people every time I see flickering images on a wall-sized screen.

But when I do go, I’ve noticed that everything seems to be a remake of something else.

Every second movie is based on a comic or cartoon, the latest being Fantastic Four. I reminisce back to the glory days of 2002 when Spiderman, the first comic book adapted to a movie, hit the cinemas.

To take a popular comic and make a movie out of it was a slick and original idea at the time, but since then everyone has jumped on the bandwagon.

Other remakes include Star Wars episode I, II and III, blatant rip-offs of Star Wars episodes IV, V and VI, right down to using the same props—brown robes and the common household cutting tool of the future, the so-called ‘light sabre’.

Then there’s Bewitched, Batman Begins, Sin City (which, since it stars Bruce Willis, is just another Die Hard instalment. Even though it is nothing at all like Die Hard, every time I see Bruce Willis in a movie, no matter what his lines are, I can still hear him saying ‘Yippee-ki-ay, motherfucker’. For example, Bruce Willis to the kid out of the Sixth Sense: ‘You see dead people? Yippee-ki-ay, motherfucker’). War of the Worlds, and so many others it’s not worth continuing.

Either there are no new ideas left, or people no longer want new ideas, or movie makers think people no longer want new ideas, and so don’t make anything other than an endless series of Remakes, Series and Remakes—part II.

So sit back and get ready for the release of Miss Congeniality III—Steve Irwin’s Revenge. It can’t be far away.