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Quality Over Originality

We sometimes hear complains that Hollywood has no originality and is pumping out nothing but sequels, reboots, remakes, and movies based on outside properties (like comic books and books).
I hope we can rise above assuming that non-original movies are inherently a bad thing.
Mad Max: Fury Road was a soft reboot.
The Empire Strikes Back was a sequel.
Jurassic Park, The Prestige, Blade Runner, Jaws, The Shining, Fight Club, and The Martian were based on books.
The Dark Knight and Logan were sequels AND based on specific comic book arcs (Batman: The Long Halloween and Old Man Logan).
Ocean's Eleven was a remake (not to say it was one of the best movies ever made, but it certainly has a lot of quality to it).
Deadpool was a comic book movie and a spin-off.
If some of the best best movies ever made can be sequels, reboots, remakes, and movies based on outside properties, maybe lack of originality isn't inherently a bad thing.
Obviously, there are lots of really bad sequels, remakes, and movies based on outside properties. But there have also been a lot of really bad originals and a lot of really good non-original movies.
So I don't care about whether the movie is an original. I care about whether the movie is good.

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