Well, reading Stephen Baxter's latest there was a very clear nod, where a central character describes a wormholey thing as bigger on the inside than...you know the rest.
They've done the Titanic in space, and now the Orient Express ditto. Seems to show a groping for some originality that isn't there.
I'm with Woolly on this: I am getting tired of the ever-shorter skirts, for one.