Current popular culture has me wondering if we're just about running out of new ideas.
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In creative avenues at least, it seems most new release films are either following money-making tropes that have proven successful like superhero flicks, or, they're doing 20-year later sequels.
Musically too, there are so many songs that sample or remix older songs, many of which are remixes themselves of even older songs.
I know many, many people not a lot older than me who have shuddered in disbelief - likely at their kids - who are loving a 'new' song, which is a rework of Johnny Cash or other performer from the 80s.
![A promotional picture from the original Top Gun film in 1986. A promotional picture from the original Top Gun film in 1986.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/fdcx/dc5syd-6ojymrk3hpcfraj9jrn.jpg/r0_60_1920_1139_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Top Gun Maverick was a film that I though successfully paid homage to the 1986 hit as well as providing a glitzy new action film.
But there has been some absolute shockers.
Coming 2 America comes to mind, it's a sequel to the Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall film of 1988. I couldn't tell you what happens in the second film, I couldn't tolerate more than about 15 minutes.
There's the ghostbusters reworks, there's a Happy Gilmore sequel coming out.
Even the fast-paced world of technology appears - to the casual observer - to be encapsulated solely around the development of AI.
So it makes me wonder, have we run out of new ideas?
Let me know your thoughts at jacob.mcmaster@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Jacob McMaster, an ACM editor