The end of original scripting

Rating: 2/10 (5 July 2009)

It's a shame that nowadays there are no longer any original script writers. And I can't understand why so many folks find it interesting the adaptation of books (being it comic books or otherwise) or the remake of old successes...
Don't we have any creative capacity to build new stories, new adventures? Are we, the younger generation that dumb? Really, I am fed up with adaptations and remakes: X-Men, Batman, Star Trek, Terminator, Star Wars - you name it! New stories, new to come Classics: ZERO! The sci-fi and fantasy genre is going through its dark ages, we either revive the classics or build completely stupid stories just for kids (Lord of the Rings may be an exception, but think of Narnia and Harry Potter).
As said before, this movie can only be appreciated by two types of folks: - those that have read the book and like it (nevertheless they will complain over and over and over because sequence A did not match passage A of the book: It's and ADAPTATION for Christ's sake, not a point to point copy) - those that come from art school (or those that wish they did) and appreciate those pseudo-intellectual bits of film-making I am neither, and so I feel disappointed because if you look into this movie as a stand-alone creation you can only conclude that the story makes absolutely no sense. Of course that doesn't matter because he (the director) was only adapting the book, so if the script is absurd that is a transcendent matter...
Just to finish, a word to those that comment on the special effects and action scenes: (1) any movie made in 2009 has automatically good special effects if given enough budget, so no need to point it out actually (2) good action is like what you should seek in cartoons when you are 10 years old... grow up.
Scoring 2/10 just because this director is actually talented, but the movie is stupidly over-rated!