There are no original movies

[MrScorpio]

Everything is derivative

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Is there a "Genesis" movie?

If so, what is it?

[evlbstrd]

2. It was probably on nitrate stock and is damaged or gone.

Or it be a zoetrope, lost in someone's attic.
But there are always great stories, and from those, many great films have been born.

[MikeDuffy]

3. Try some Ingmar Bergman movies

if you like thinking (really thinking!) about serious subjects. Maybe try "The Seventh Seal" for starters, if you've never seen it. He has written/directed dozens of such movies.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Seventh Seal is a classic

Wild Strawberries is anothe Bergman classic.

[punpirate]

4. There is a theory...

... that there are only five or so main plots.

But, I'm still trying to figure out where the hell "Eraserhead" fits into any of them. :)

[CanuckAmok]

5. even "Fletch Lives"?!

no way!

[katusha]

6. ummm... "Being John Malkovich"

i don't doubt your statement, i just wanna know where this piece of genius is derived from.

[evlbstrd]

7. Actually,

it may have been the flip-book animations I used to make in the margins of my mom's Readers Digest Condensed Books. God, I tried to read them, they sucked, so I drew in them.

[Floogeldy]

8. I agree

There are only about 7 story plots ever invented by man, and Shakespeare thought of most, if not all of them.

Everything else is just contemporary window dressing, mixed with modern accentuations and fashions. That is fine with me. I'm a big movie fan!

B-)

[cestpaspossible]

9. Derivative of what????

[Kire]

14. so why aren't we watching what they are derivative of?

[cestpaspossible]

18. Well, if everything is derivative....

[MrScorpio]

10. This is a great reason why I rarely got to the movies these days

Why should I pay 16 bucks for me and my wife to experience Deja Vu?

[revolve]

11. Oh man, I should stop going to the movies too then

I mean the movies are exactly the same, and I should stop reading cause someone wrote something similar once before, and I should stop listening to music because it was built from something they heard from someone else, and I should stop listening to people talk because those words were said before. I must now go into my cave.

[cestpaspossible]

12. nt

[Jamison]

15. Well...

What about those highly entertaining Lifetime Original Movies?

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. Yeah...

There's not much original ANYTHING, though...and it is possible for a filmmaker (or a painter, or a musician, etc) to combine pre-existing influences in a new way, to create something that's derivative AND original at the same time...

[MrScorpio]

17. A modest modifyer...

Many of the major motion pictures coming out today are derivative

Originality doesn't merit a lot of money

Shaggy Dog, The (2005)
Ice Age 2 (2006)
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)
Poseidon Adventure, The (2006)
X-Men 3 (2006)
Little Thief, The (2006)
Carmen Sandiego (2006)
My Friend Flicka (2006)
Net 2.0, The (2006)
Curious George (2006)
The Producers: The Movie Musical (2005)
King Kong (2005)
Underworld: Evolution (2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Legend of Zorro, The (2005)
Strangers with Candy (2005)
Doom (2005)
Fog, The (2005)
Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis (2005)
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang (2005)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2004)
Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005)
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Prophecy: Forsaken, The (2005)
Transporter 2, The (2005)
Hood of the Living Dead (2005)
Pink Panther, The (2005)
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
Ringers: Lord of the Fans (2005) (USA Film Festival)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
House of Wax (2005) (Tribeca Film Festival)

[Melynn]

19. Has a remake of a movie ever been better than the original?

Most of the time the original movie is better than the remake. One exception is "Cape Fear".