Modern film is a hell of referential reboots

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4. Interesting points.

I'm no film scholar, and certainly don't follow the industry apart from reading the occasional review, but I'd wonder how many sequels there have been of original flops. (I'm guessing "flop" is a term the studios have an accounting measure for.)

I do know that movie remakes are nothing new--that much you can get through a simple Google search.

This article seemed somewhat pointless to me, too, but it did get me thinking about how there is nothing new under the sun, which is a very old expression.