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Re: It made money, and in spite of it's flaws was vastly superior ...

I quite disagree. the orignal was amoung other things, original. It scared the lving daylights out of it's audiences. The remake is a study in excess. To dislike the remake is not to dislike the original. I agree with Patrick's sentiments fully on this movie. Perhaps biggest shit is hyperbole but shit is pretty on the money IMO. It breaks my first rule of film making. Don't be stupid. I am a big fan of good genre movies and will accept most premises but I don't buy into the idea that because something is make believe that it is a licence to do anything no matter how ridiculous it may be. If there were to be dnosaurs and an ovesized gorilla on a mysterious island that would not cause the laws of physics to stop working, nor would it lead to a ridiculous chain of near impossible follies that couldn't be choreographed and performed with trained animals nor would it cause every human involved to suddenly turn irrational. In the days of the original there was a certian level of stylization that was conventional in cinematic story telling. People don't buy it any more and it forces film makers to take different avenues to convey a narrative. What may have been acceptable choices by characters in the 30s because of that stylization are often now simply stupid choices by todays standards of realism. Jackson needed to adapt the story so the character's choices wouldn't be patently stupid. Instead he spent time and money on the ridiculous. CGI is like dynamite. In the hands of the wrong person it is destructive.

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