Transformers, robots poke your eye

Okay, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be making this, but has anybody else noticed that Hollywood seems to be having trouble coming up with anything original? They're basically just nicking stuff from other countries (like how they turned Infernal Affairs into the Departed), recycling old movies (like War of the Worlds) or taking something that has some kind of cult following and turning into a movie (like X-men and yes, Transformers). What gives?

I'll tell you what. Movies have now become such big budget affairs that nobody is willing to risk good money on good ideas. Good ideas don't have good statistics to back them up. When the money becomes as big as it has at this stage, people's first priority is guaranteeing that they at least get their money back. That's why we get decently mediocre films which repackage old ideas (and thereby make certain at least some people come to watch it), rather than awesomely original movies that risk bombing at the box office.

Hollywood is a victim of its own success. Each year the movies must get that bit prettier, so the money must be that bit more, so the movies must get that bit safer and therefore the audiences end up just that bit less interested. I wonder where it will go? Is YouTube the answer, or is that just another red herring?