Remakes are usually unnecessary artistically and badly made.
Maniac is an exception. It was re-worked in a great way. It is certainly too graphic for my taste nowadays, but there is a lot of artistic creativity in its birth. Be sure to watch the 'Making Of' too.
Another exception is John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.
Pump Up The Volume (1990)
A great teenage/hormonal flick involving building DIY equipment and Pirate Radio.😀
A great teenage/hormonal flick involving building DIY equipment and Pirate Radio.😀
I agree; I hate remakes, it proves a lack of imagination. ...A slaved trap into the past. I watched them only as a stronger reminder. ...And a bit of curiosity, but that's a weak spot of mine. 🙂
I watched this last night, in 3D :::
* It is not a remake of the original remake. ...What was the original?
It was awesome! ...Because of Eva Green! ...The rest was small potatoes compared to her.
* It is not a remake of the original remake. ...What was the original?
It was awesome! ...Because of Eva Green! ...The rest was small potatoes compared to her.
The good ones are truely memorable and worth watching:
Compare, for instance "Pygmalion" Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller ca 1938 with "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.
"My Man Godfrey" -- the 1957 version with David Niven and June Alysson only emerged on TCM for the first time this year -- it was a nice departure from the 1937 film with William Powell.
"The Champ" from the dawn of the talkie era with Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, directed by King Vidor is one of the best movies ever made, and the remake with John Voight, Ricky Schroder and Faye Dunaway is almost as good.
Possibly, but on this one I would go with the darker side of the human condition of the original.
Became the title of Amity Schlaes great book "The Forgotten Man" --
...at the moment me and 'mamselle are watching Poirot try to figger out a murder in a blind spinster's apartment.
Sarah Silverman joked that the title [of 300] was a reference to how gay the film was on a scale of 1 to 10.
No remake here, just a book. ...I found it depressing, boring, and just plain simple uninteresting.
It is! ...A gay movie. But somehow they managed to put Eva Green in it, and without clothes. 300 cheers for a rising nude Eva!
and if I recall, the original classic from 2007 had Lena Headey - also worth the price of the popcorn, even when almost fully clothed
quite liked her as Sarah Connor in the TV series of a few years back, and it hard to see exactly where Cersei is headed - but wouldn't be surprised if she's one of the last standing - assuming that GOT ever ends 😀
quite liked her as Sarah Connor in the TV series of a few years back, and it hard to see exactly where Cersei is headed - but wouldn't be surprised if she's one of the last standing - assuming that GOT ever ends 😀
It's a live rock concert music video on Blu-ray by the Chemical Brothers in Japan Frank. 😎
Just goggle it for a closer look. 😉
Just goggle it for a closer look. 😉
...Two guys, electronic, lots of visual effects; I recommend for all who are still young in some corner of their memory fueled by their still young blood cascading into some veins of their pumping heart and vessels of their still youthful brain.
Just don't think and you'll be just fine. 🙂
Just don't think and you'll be just fine. 🙂
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Different, but too out-of-touch with the fictive/human science (sex and imagination). IMO
...Different conception, for sure. ...Worth a check for that, for the director's own vision.