I find the amount of time now between an original release of a film and a remake getting made is ridiculous... REC/Quarantine is the only one I can think of that got a remake very very fast. Anyone think of a shorter time frame between two films?
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cant say i can...but it's not the time frame that bothers me...it's just the fact that they keep on doing it...and almost always **** it up completely
i can think of very few examples of when it was good...
the departed...
vanilla sky (half decent anyway)
and i can think of very few examples, good or bad, when it goes the other way and foreign films are remakes of english language films
the beat that my heart skipped
what annoys me is that the US had such a fuss over the writers strike last year and for what?...so they could churn out endless drivel?
i know it's a seperate debate...but how many hollywood films this year weren't sequels, prequels, comic book films, foreign remakes or adaptations of books, games or theatre?
take a look at this list and tell me it doesn't want to make you throw up and how much they plan on raping films from the past
Don't get me started on The Departed. One thing was the amount of times I heard people give credit to the part where Leo's character is [SPOILER - highlight to read]: shot in the lift , making it out as some amazing new thing when it was done in the original... Yeah it's Leo, but so what.... ughhhhhhhhh.
No more.
Anyway, looked at the list, it's quite an old list. Hopefully a lot of them will fall through.
You know what is sickening, Paul 'Resident Evil' Anderson remaking the classic British film The Long Good Friday, and moving it from London to Miami...
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I had no idea what this movie was about, and I purposely did nothing to find out more about it. The only thing I knew that this was a apparently a "really good film".
It seemed as though this was going to be just another slasher film (Halloween), but I was way off. It started slow, but the story really built up, and the pieces were coming together.
The directing was top notch, the film had a unique atmosphere and ambiance, and it was evident that there was a lot of effort put into the making. Some may find this movie to be very slow, and unorthodox. I won't give any spoilers, but all in all, I highly recommend this movie.
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Just finished watching this and it was one of the best vampire films, scratch that, best romantics I've ever seen. The actors did an incredible job and they're able to convey that child like innocence in an amazing manner.
Damn. They are going to completely screw this story up. The book was fantastic, and the movie did a great job of capturing the mood. The movie even left out certain parts that I thought shouldn't have been in the book in the first place.
I'm really not looking forward to the American version.
Finally got around to seeing this. It was a very good movie. Kind of 2008's Pan's Labyrinth if you will, in the sense that it's a foreign film revolving around a child (or children) with fantastical elements that's recieved a lot of critical praise.
I heard that [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Eli, the little girl/vampire is actually a castrated boy. Apparently the director and writer have both confirmed this in interviews. I did not pick up on that during the film, although I suppose it explains the quick shot of his/her genitalia. Anyone have any thoughts?
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