What's wrong with Hollywood, that they have to keep re-making pictures? Don't they have any new ideas?
In short, no. Call it the "Gen X effect"...the generation raised without creativity, thanks to cable and MTV, is now at the controls, and has no idea what to do. So they do what they're best at...destroying that which has already been done.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Why change the story line. It was the cuban’s and the russians the last time that attacked and the Chinese were on our side.
From the movie when the kids are asking the downed fighter pilot who is on our side he reponds “about 700 million screamin china men”. The kid says that he thought there were a billion china men. The pilot says something tothe effect that there used to be...
The serious answer is "yes, they do have new ideas" or at least the creative side people do. The problem is that on the business side of the industry, there's a lot of fear of doing anything original. When movies cost an average of $65 million to make and another $35 million to market, they figure it's smarter to go with what the public already knows. It's all about risk reduction.