Where Has the Creativity Gone?

As of now I am reading The Time traveler's Wife. It's a very unique and not at all traditional love story and like most books these days it is being turned into a movie which comes to a theater near you august 14th! With Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams as the main characters, I have a feeling it is going to be a great film.

What I don't fully understand is why movie directors are so keen on making movies that are originally books. Where has all the talent gone? The creativity? The incentive to create a work of art and make it your own? Nearly every movie I see or will see has originally been a book. To name a few: HP movies, I love you, Beth Cooper, Dear John (the book wasn’t too bad), the Twilight saga, Shutter Island (I would love to read that book), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Those are only a few out of the hundreds. I am always overjoyed when I hear of a book that I love becoming a movie; you can never enjoy a good story too much. But why does EVERY movie have to be from a book? When the creativity of filmmaker’s evaporated, their originality seemed to fade away as well.

No, I am not bashing the movies and no, I am not criticizing the directors. I am actually looking forward to seeing all of these movies. I only wonder what happened to the great directors with their own imagination who put forth everything into their work, including their own ideas and thoughts and storylines. I certainly hope that creativity is found for these movie making genius’.