On Second Handers

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different. Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series. Even if the project is not a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past. Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash an movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.