Now I'm not a big film goer, but nevertheless, something has come to my attention recently.

There seems to be two rapidly growing trends among the film industry.

First, we have the 'remake' trend where old films are re-adapted, updated and made into new (and generally worse) films.

The second trend are the book adaptions, and there are hundreds! Harry Potter, Minority Report, The Bourne films, Lord of the Rings, I Am Legend, I Robot, The Chronicles of Narnia...everything's based on a book!!!

So amongst all this, what do we have left? Certainly nothing I want to watch! Every big blockbuster seems to fall into one of the two trends, particularly the latter. I am honestly wondering if anyone making films has half a brain in their head, or even the scarcest trace of imagination. Is originality really so hard to come by these days?

What would happen to the film industry if book adaptions were suddenly not allowed? Would they be able to release even a single film that is above mediocre standard? I'd be interested to find out. Not that this will ever happen.

Now I'm not saying all good films are either book adaptions or remakes, but the vast majority seem to be. I could, of course, be completely wrong, and I'd be quite glad if I was. But has anyone else noticed these increasing trends, or am I seeing patterns that aren't there? I'd be interested to know what other people think.

Now, I'm off to find a good book to read so that I'm prepared for the inevitable movie adaption in a few years time.