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⌈ Secret Post #3860 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[fishnchips]

Nicolas Cage thought it was a great idea to remake The Wicker Man. He was very wrong.

Also any and all American remakes of non-American movies annoy me. Especially when they win Oscars for the remakes (looking at you, The Departed).

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[thewakokid]

With you on the Wicker man.

With you on most yank remakes - What the shit did we need an american Get Carter for? - but every exception has a rule. In this case: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[fishnchips]

There are probably more excepions, I just have this automatic dislike for US remakes of foreign films.
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a bit different as well imo because it was an additional adaption of a book and not a simple remake of an existing movie. And in this case, the new adaption was much closer to the book so that's pretty great.

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[thewakokid]

It was much closer to the Book! Ms Mara was an ideal Lisbeth, exactly how I imagined her from the book. So much better as Lisbeth than Ms Rapace.

Mr Craig was less like Mikael than his Swedish counterpart, but to be honest, who the hell is reading the girl with the dragon tatoo for Mikael Blomkvist? It's all about Lisbeth and her undercover badassedness.

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[(Anonymous)]

Which is why it was a very very good idea to never let his Superman remake come to pass.

Re: Remakes you want Vs Remakes no-one ever wanted.

[(Anonymous)]

RE: American remakes:

On some levels, I agree. I thought Infernal Affairs was on a whole different level from The Departed. I love Martin Scorsese but The Departed was just another Hollywood mob film (definitely on the better side of quality with this type of film, however). Infernal Affairs was a suspense cat-and-mouse game where the leads are basically the same but yet worlds apart. It has so much more going on and I felt like the character development was way, way, way better (especially the secondary characters). Like, I don't think The Departed is a bad film, but it can't even compete with the original, and I thought it wasn't really a film worthy of the amount of awards-love it received.

On the other hand, I don't always think dismissing American remakes is fair. I think films like The Grudge, True Lies, Let Me In, Unfaithful, and Vanilla Sky are all great films with varying qualities compared to what they were adapted from, and they don't really annoy me that they were remade from a different country. Although, Hollywood should stay away from trying to remake Korean films...and films based on mangas/animes.