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In Reply to: Re: OK, now that we've gotten you broken in gently... posted by Victor Khomenko on July 30, 2003 at 17:20:26:
"My feelings about the remakes - ALL remakes - has been completely negative all along."An understandable point of view, but you should keep in mind that John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (one of my favourite Hollywood movies) is not just a remake but is the third version (a reremake).
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Some movies are greatly improved by being remade, others not! Examples of better remakes include Scaramouche -- I'm a silent movie aficionado, but the original silent version is a plodding bore compared to the rousing tongue'n cheek technicolor version from 1952 with Stuart Granger -- ...and even the Mark of Zorro -- while I like the original Fairbanks version for it's technical excellence and Fairbank's athleticism, it can't touch the pace, witty repartee and swordplay of the 1940 version starring Tyrone Power.Then there are some movies which were grand achievements in their own rite and should've just been left alone. Films like Prisoner of Zenda, King Kong & Mighty Joe Young, even the silent Ben Hur (Ramon Navarro being a far better actor without sound than Charlton Heston is with sound), and Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston does star in this one, but even with that drawback the original's material is fresher and makes more sense than Tim Burton's remake).
Of course, then there are movies which shouldn't be made AT ALL, much less remade, like Lost In Space, Charlie's Angels, the Beverly Hillbillies and most of the other TV knock-offs with rare exception, and movies like Solaris which were horribly slow and boring in their original versions. I'm sure that some will differ with me here, but I actually felt the seasons pass while trying to sit through Tarkovsky's agonizingly snail-paced flick.
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Well, it ain't remakes per se that bother me ... For instance, I like the Phil Kaufman 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' as well as the original Siegal. There are others I can't think of off the top of my head. That's not the problem. It's when a guy's last three films are remakes ... when there are so MANY remakes and, as you point out, TV show treatments, comic books, musical versions, send ups, rip offs, rehashes of all kinds, which points to a general unwillingness on the part of investors to get behind anything original. This of course has always been true but it seems to me that we're seeing a whole lot more of it lately and I'm bloody well bored with it.
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