The Most Ridiculous Movie Adaptations: Proof That Hollywood's Out Of Ideas (PICTURES)

If you haven't been reading the WTF section of your local paper, you may have missed the news that 20th Century Fox plans to adapt the E*Trade Baby commercials into a movie. It's the latest attempt by Hollywood to make a movie out of ridiculous source material. Most of the entries on this list have yet to be completed, but the fact that they're in the works is further proof that Hollywood has simply run out of ideas.

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[achantegrelet]

10:38 AM on 04/13/2010

Tuesday, 13th April 2010...My comment from ealier even hasn't been registered on Huffington' view Internet...A Hacker filter???? Strange!!!
Well, I was saying from my typing that I loved the Haunted Mansion with the great Hollywood actor black American Eddy MURPHY, I loved watching it on TV at Christmas time. Also, I loved the movie the Cop Of Beverlly Hills I watched at the cinema in Paris, in FRANCE my country at Opera Subway Station ~~1985-86 with my ex-boyfriend (fiance) & so too ex-fiance. I loved the pirate of the Carrabian (may be wrong spelling) with Johnny DEEP. As we say in FRANCE "All the tastes are in the NATURE" I watched it at the cinema in Luton, Bedfordshire, England at the amazing GALAXY Centre, wonderful !!!...
Hope you well with your majority choice selected not share. Sorry, got no time to comment on your 08/11 left.
Bye! Bye! Miss Anna CHANTEGRELET, french from FRANCE, european resident/citizen in England at Expresso Internet Cafe 27, wellington street, Luton, LU1 2QH, Bedfordshire, England. Time 15:30:00 Aftnoon (pm).

[TheWM]

11:05 AM on 04/12/2010

Saying that Hollywood is out of ideas implies that there was a time when it was relatively full of ideas. I submit that the Golden Age of Hollywood, like most Golden Ages, is mythical. It exists only in nostalgic imaginations. It never was. Titans never walked the Earth.

[mulegino]

10:20 AM on 04/11/2010

Hollywood ran out of ideas long ago. It doesn't need ideas, talent, creativity and much less any sense of aesthetics, truth, history or of the sublime, since its raison d'etre is making money in return for entertaining the mostly brain dead products of American pop culture, for which it served as the midwife. Hollywood is leading the way in the downward spiral into a world of ugliness, screaming banality, historical amnesia, deliberate ignorance, and dime store nihilism, a barren landscape that makes Dante's "dark and dusky wood" look cheery and lush by comparison. It is the antipode of true culture- think what cinema might have been, if all the resources and technical expertise had been spread out among the independent minded, truly creative and talented, rather than being under the heel of the studio bosses, egomaniacs, and the sycophants that make up the bulk of the Hollywood mafia.

[wolfdogNM]

01:46 AM on 04/12/2010

Ya, most movies these days are remakes, sequels or spin offs.

[ResearchtheFacts]

09:20 AM on 04/11/2010

It's all meant to be entertainment. If they legalize marijuana in your state you might find some of these movies entertaining like candy land. lol

[Ken Maddox]

11:47 PM on 04/10/2010

Hollywood still makes movies. Well, maybe in a loose definition of the term 'movies' they still are.

[ProgressforAmerica]

11:30 PM on 04/10/2010

zomg, a place for me to vent my hate for the e*trade commercials. Oh how I HATE those commercials. No I don't hate little babies :P

That is all.

[VonBluster]

10:02 PM on 04/10/2010

I heard that there are a couple of Horror/Slasher films coming in Summer/July 2011 based on patriotic figures.

One is "Yankee Doodle Deadly" with the tagline -"Yankee Doodle Dandy.. Yankee Doodle, Do and DIE!"

The Other is based on a 'Uncle Sam Costumed Killer' with a poster of him saying, "WE WANT YOU... To DIE!"

BTW- J/K

[Lefty Pockets]

09:52 PM on 04/10/2010

Etrade baby had maybe one funny joke and now its unstoppable and annoying.

[ritual-reality-x]

09:37 PM on 04/10/2010

where did my last comment go, moderator?

[joefoss]

08:30 PM on 04/10/2010

The best proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas are Jennifer Aniston's movies.
=The "spunky girl in trouble" plots are as drearily predictable as the tabloid "rumors" that, inevitably, are spread about her alleged affairs with her leading men.
>Quick!
Name the male leads opposite Jen in the following films: 1--Derailed (2005) 2--The Break-Up (2006)
3--Management (2009) 4--Love Happens (2009) and 5--The Bounty Hunter (2010).
ANSWERS:
1--Clive Owen 2--Vince Vaughn 3--Steve Zahn 4--Aaron Eckhart 5--Gerard Butler
(Scoring: 0 correct = movie critic; 1 correct = senior citizen; 2 correct = you only watch movies @ home;
3 correct = sexually ambivalent; 4 correct = haven't had a date, not counting the one your mother arranged, since high school; 5 correct = you're a chick.)

[lockDown]

06:46 PM on 04/10/2010

On the surface it seems ridiculous, but why diss it before seeing it?

[realitytrumpsbull]

06:05 PM on 04/10/2010

Well, Uma Thurman did a 'real life' movie and it promptly fell through the bomb bay doors. Problem with Hollywood is, even at its' best, it's still just entertainment, a trick of the light, and these days, people are scraping for money to buy gas, which is back up at 3 bucks a gallon, meanwhile, so movie nights are fewere, and farther between, not to mention that the moviehouse industry has gotten monstrously expensive, just to plant your butt in a seat in the theater with traditional popcorn and soda now costs upward of $10/person, so, go figure what kind of ideas those people have in their heads in terms of trying to make a buck off a flickering light show. Do directors and producers and so forth have to stand for periodic drug testing? Might not be a bad idea(and I don't mean testing out the latest stuff from south of the border, either).

[wolfdogNM]

01:50 AM on 04/12/2010

Ya, I rember being able to do it for about ~ $1 when I was a kid, like 33 years ago. Inflation of 10X; Go figure.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

05:36 PM on 04/10/2010

OK, I have to admit this. I can't go on until I do.

I actually thought the TV show with the Geico Cavemen was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

There! I said it! I feel better now!

[NoraHuffster]

05:30 PM on 04/10/2010

Hollywood is not out of ideas, it has closed the doors to new and emerging talent in writing, direction, and acting to make space for insiders' children.

Nepotism exists in all segments of a society and when it infiltrates the arts, the ideas dry up.

[cameron d]

05:35 PM on 04/10/2010

Bingo! I hate when people say that Hollywood and the music industry are out of ideas. It simply isn't true. There's plenty of quality stuff out there still, you just have to look for it.

The nepotism isnt helping though.

[TheGripester]

04:49 PM on 04/10/2010

I wanna see "SCRABBLE: The Movie!"

Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said anything...

[plzchuteme]

05:54 PM on 04/10/2010

I want to see "Pick-up Stix:The Movie," and then "Pick-up Stix II." I think Nicholas Cage would fit the leading role.

[TheGripester]

06:43 PM on 04/10/2010

That's easy - just rewrite "The Color of Money" with Nick Cage as the dissipated pick-up stix hustler, Seth Green as the callow up-and-coming kid, and Jim Carrey as the competing champion "stixer." I'd buy that for a dollar!

[jenna2929]

02:15 PM on 04/17/2010

what a great team you two make