[Splines]

People recycle old ideas instead of having new ones.

IMO this is a weak argument - you could say the same thing about startups. When it comes to creative work, it's all about the execution.

Just because a story is being retold doesn't automatically make it bad. Similarly, just because a story has been told before doesn't mean you can't tell it again.

[commieneko]

Robert Heinlein once wrote (On the Writing of Speculative Fiction) that, gimmicks aside, there were only 3 stories that were about people:

Boy meets girl.

The little tailor.

The man who learned better.

[burgerbrain]

Which is Die Hard?

[commieneko]

The man who learned better.

[burgerbrain]

How so? Seems to me it's just "the man who kicked lots of ass". He certainly didn't learn better, since John McClane proceeded to find himself in similar situations 3 more times :P

[zeemonkee]

Only if you are referring to John McClane. "The man who learned better" could be Alan Rickman and all the other villains whose ass he kicked.

[commieneko]

Watch the movie again and think really hard...