They've been out of ideas for a couple of decades, at least. My friends always make fun of me when another movie comes out and I say that it's just a remake of a Kurosawa film from the '50s or '60s. (Yojimbo = Last man Standing, Magnificent Seven = Seven Samurai) They've so run out of ideas that they're only reaching back as far as the -70s and '80s now. No one else noticed that "Pelham 123" is just a remake of a classic '70s film "The Taking of Pelham 123"?
And they're knocking off English TV programmes too. Did anyone else know that "The Office" was originally done in England, with a different cast? How about "Life on Mars"?
And then we have "Land of the Lost"; a remake of a campy '70s Saturday morning live action kids' show. Now it's intentional and ham-handed slapstick comedy, rather than the unintentional stuff that the original had.
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