I get your point, 8 out of 10 top (grossing) films of 2012 were remakes, reboots, spinoffs, reimaginings..etc. As opposed to 1 out of 10 in 1990. But oddly enough, a week before I knew this was coming, I said during a movie discussion with a coworker, that I really liked the Paul Rudd scenes in Knocked Up and voila a whole movie with those characters. One spinoff, I can handle in the respect of pollishing some rough gold that appeared in Knocked Up for a few short moments, if it keeps happening this might become a problem. I have to think he saw the comic gold that occured in K U (I even have a friend who disliked the movie but liked those scenes). If he'd never put those characters in K U, I would still have watched "This is 40" Again, I getchya but I also feel that those characters were good candidates for more exploration.
P.s. have you tried watching Funny People again? I wasn't impressed the first time either, but saw it at a friends for a second time and it grew on me a little, not my fave but I like it more than I did the first time. It's a departure from his other stuff for sure. Might have just been the company I was in upon the 2nd viewing, maybe the beers, etc*....
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