What Will The Next Decade Have To Offer?

My friends and I watched AVATAR last weekend and although we agreed that it was visually spectacular, the story was like Dances With Wolves meets Planet of the Apes but with Cameron’s writing style. Rama’s SCREEN reader moviebuff watched the trailer for KNIGHT AND DAY the other day and it reminded him of True Lies.
Ya know what’s weird,.. most indie,… or so-called indie flicks since Little Miss Sunshine is becoming more and more alike  in their coming-of-age tone, Sunshine Cleaning, Juno, The Wackness,

Nowadays when you hear a project being developed it’s always described as so-and-so title meets so-and so-title, it’s as if it has to be a mixture of two movies in the past to be considered an original work.

Don’t get me even started on the remakes, sequels, game-based movies, TV-based movies, comic-based movies, especially those that were unbearable because they were not faithful to the materials.
The first half of 2000s was like a battle between fantasy adventure flicks like LOTR, Harry Potter and Narnia, the last half of 2000s was full of one vampire movie after another.

Once in a while, you’ll get filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino that dared to kick you in the teeth, turning the victims into heroes like making the Jews actually kill the Nazis for once.
Now that we’re at the end of 2009, as we look back… how would you grade this past decade as far as movies concerned? average? Awesome? 5 out of 5? Was there really a truly original movie?

And as we look forward to the next decade,.. what do you think the next 10 years will hold for us movie freaks? Is it going to be pretty much the same dish, just a modified version, 3D versions of mixtures of titles from the past?