When you take a look at big Hollywood movie releases, you tend to see that more and more are from an outside source like a book, comic book, or even a video game.  While less and less moves are original stories.  This isn’t necessarily good or bad, because it’s not the source material that makes a movie good or bad, it’s the production, directing, screenplay, and acting that determines the quality of the film.  But what is becoming apparent is that fact that a lot of movies that are adapted from well-known books usually get a good profit while not actually being that good.  The Twilight films come to mind, but a more recent example is the film Need for Speed which came out last Friday.  The film itself is based off the game of the same name.  The film is still being shown in theaters, but it has almost based its 66 million dollar budget with close to 64 million even though critics have given it negative reviews.  It begs the question whether or not these kinds of movies are being released as a cash grab and are suffering less quality to do so.  Maybe, maybe not, many people will fight for films like Twilight and Need for Speed, praising them for their stories and entertainment value.  Maybe Hollywood just knows their audience too well.