Don't see remakes, made-from-tv, sequels or comic book adaptations!

[Deja Q]

Demand originality in film! Not a quick buck! It's not supposed to be money first, it's ART first. Good art generates money. Anything for a buck is far worse than prostitution!

[Lorien]

1. As someone who has worked on a few blockbusters

I gotta disagree; good STORY is what makes a great film, and that CAN come from an adaptation or be in the form of a sequel. "Empire Strikes back" was better than "Star Wars",imho, and I enjoyed "Batman begins" and the Spiderman movies.A good friend of a friend of mine made his own ORIGINAL comic book series into a film ("Sin City"), I haven't seen it, but I know that it was well reviewed and that Frank-the guy who made it and created the comic books- was downright "giddy" with the outcome. Films like "Adaptation" or "Garden state" are great too, but I don't see them as being automatically superior to a studio picture just because they are low budget and independent. I put my heart and soul into big budget pics, just like most people who work on them. No movie that I've ever worked on cost less than $45 million to produce, either-so expecting to "make money" from a picture doesn't make one a prostitute, It makes one sensible. No money-no future films.

[seemunkee]

3. Frank did a great job on Sin City

I was really looking forward to the movie and was not disappointed. I have all my comics stored in drawers by title EXCEPT for a few select artists and Frank is one of them. I would like to see the Martha Washington series made into a movie.

[Coventina]

2. That's a little too restrictive for me to agree with.

I agree with you that Hollywood is starting to almost exclusively rely on those sources, and that's a bad thing. Especially when the source material is weak to begin with (Dukes of Hazzard? You're kidding right?).

But, there have been GREAT adaptations of novels. "Sense & Sensibility" is what immediately comes to my mind. Jane Austen is not everyone's cup of tea, but anyone familiar with the novel pretty much has to agree that the movie works really well, as a movie.

I also thought "Ghost World" was a really good movie. As a person who no longer keeps up with Graphic Novels, I would have never enjoyed the source material, but now I'm planning on searching it out, because of the excellence of the movie.

I can't see where the original author would find that to be a "bad" thing.

[seemunkee]

4. LOTR - Great books and damn good movies