I think it really sucks that everything is becoming or has already become cliche...

Monica and I were discussing songs. She dislikes Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" solely because it's "cliche." Well, I say it's gettin' pretty damn tough to be original these days. TRUE, there are many ideas out there, but a whole lot of them have been taken. How many songs get to be truly unique from anything that has come before it? Or movies? So many damned derivative movies... Lots of video games are the same way. Shit. Look at first-person-shooters... you gots the Halos, the Counterstrikes, the Half-Lifes, the Far Crys, the Red Factions, the GoldenEyes... and this is just one genre. Admittedly though, there's still plenty of innovation left in vid games, but only for another 50 years, if that.

More on movies... Once again, the superheroes are hitting us. Not only do we have another Batman movie and Superman movie in production now but a plethora of other movies based on comic book material. Batman Begins is an origin story. Shit, Tim Burton's first Batman movie came out like what... 13 years ago? Wow, to think that I only have to wait another what, 20 years (after these new movies come out) before I see a whole new Superman or Batman movie being made?

Please don't tell me that's original. The Manchurian Candidate and Man on Fire are remakes of older movies. Don't forget Ocean's Eleven, either! Peter Jackson is making a remake of King Kong, which has been remade a number of times... *sigh*
And don't even get me started on The Matrix Trilogy. Just because you throw a bunch of cliches together doesn't make the movies really that original; they're just a big cliche bound by cliches.

Tough to be original, I tell ya. Props to J.K. Rowling, but even her shiet has borrowed from other literature.

I guess it's impossible to be original. Shit! The sayings "Be original!" and "That's original!" are cliches too! Gosh.

Fuck all that. Maybe people should just plagiarize. There's no use in trying to be original.

But then consider this... Show things from an angle not seen before... Then, while the material itself is not necessarily unique, the take/viewpoint IS!