Film Remakes

What is it with hollywood these days, is it that nobody can come up with any new ideas for films for the screen or do they just have no imagination in general. Everything that's coming out these days is either adapted from a book or a remake of a classic film which is just ruined by these new directors.
Now there is nothing wrong with taking books and making them into films, but the amount of films that have come from books in the last couple of years is just crazy. It really shows just how little effort goes into making films nowadays, what happened to the good old days when someone would write a script of a story that they had created and then they would send it off to see if the movie companies were interested and the movie would be created from there. But now there are no originals ideas because the books that the stories originate from are basically an outline for the writer to use...people where are your ideas.
Getting onto the issue of remakes, now don't get me wrong on the odd occasion a remake of a film will come out that is just as good as the original or the writers have used the same ideas but have created their own version of the story which can sometimes be alright, such as A nightmare on elm.street in which Jackie Earl Haley did Robert Englund justice by doing a superb job in recreating the character of Freddy Krueger. But it really annoys me when people decide to create a remake which just basically ruins the pureness of the original. I mean we can just look at the way that Rob Zombie completely ruined the Halloween franchise by trying to recreate John Carpenter's masterpiece, he just went straight over the top and destroyed the character of Michael Myers. Rob what are you playing at come up with your own ideas and stop ruining classics. Some others which have been remade and destroyed include: King Kong, conan the barbarian, Psycho, the day the earth stood still, the fog and friday the 13th to name a few. You people can't try and recreate the magic which was produced in those classics, just leave them alone and create your own. One of the biggest slaps in the face of the silverscreen is the diabolical creation which is the remake of Footloose, ok I know that the original wasn't one of the greatest dance films ever such as dirty dancing, but what they have done is just made another step up film, because they have gone waaay over the top with the dancing. When hollywood make these remakes and young people see them they think that these films are amazing and most don't even know they are remakes meaning the classics don't get the attention they deserve.