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This thread is dedicated to remakes.
We all know that Hollywood loves remaking foreign movies, and re-booting old Hollywood productions. Sometimes it sends you into a severe state of depression, and sometimes it is actually good, or perhaps even better.
I want you to rate some of the remakes/re-boots you have seen, and how they compare to the original.
I will start:
Good remakes:
Originally from China (Hong Kong)
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Both are great movies, and bring something unique to table.
Infernal Affiars is a trilogy, and you will get a lot more involved in the character development and back story, when you have seen them all (the 2 other movies are prequels).
The Departed got Scorsese, and amazing dialogue.
Both versions got great acting, but the Departed takes the cake with Baldwin, Wahlberg. Nicholson and Dicaprio all giving amazing performances.
Both versions are very good.
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Originally from Japan
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Here is a case of a remake that just copies the plot, but puts it into a whole new environment.
A Fistful of Dollars redefined the western genre. Yojimbo is a masterpiece.
Like most of Kurosawa's other work, one should be very cautious about remaking it. Most of his movies are regarded as flawless masterpieces and you can be certain that almost everyone will be extremely skeptical.
But the remake was done in such an original way while creating a very good movie in its own right, so I think it serves as a prime example of how a remake should be done.
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Bad remakes
Originally from S.Korea
VS 
A Tale of Two Sisters is to The Uninvited what Mozart is to Lil'Wayne.
I will quote some IMDB users that seems to share my feelings:
A Tale of Two Sisters is an actual piece of quality cinema. The Uninvited is a hack-job made for teenagers
Janghwa, Hongryeon is better cast, better written, better directed, well.. just better.
The remake was so badly acted it looked like a school play, the dialogue was terrible, and was dumbed down beyond belief.
A Tale of Two Sisters is an excellent film, and The Univited lacks the ambience and emotion of A Tale of Two Sisters. I felt crushed for Soo-mi at the end of A Tale of Two Sisters, but I was pretty much emotionally uninvolved at the end of The Uninvited.
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We all know that Hollywood loves remaking foreign movies, and re-booting old Hollywood productions. Sometimes it sends you into a severe state of depression, and sometimes it is actually good, or perhaps even better.
I want you to rate some of the remakes/re-boots you have seen, and how they compare to the original.
I will start:
Good remakes:
Originally from China (Hong Kong)
VS Both are great movies, and bring something unique to table.
Infernal Affiars is a trilogy, and you will get a lot more involved in the character development and back story, when you have seen them all (the 2 other movies are prequels).
The Departed got Scorsese, and amazing dialogue.
Both versions got great acting, but the Departed takes the cake with Baldwin, Wahlberg. Nicholson and Dicaprio all giving amazing performances.
Both versions are very good.
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Originally from Japan
VSHere is a case of a remake that just copies the plot, but puts it into a whole new environment.
A Fistful of Dollars redefined the western genre. Yojimbo is a masterpiece.
Like most of Kurosawa's other work, one should be very cautious about remaking it. Most of his movies are regarded as flawless masterpieces and you can be certain that almost everyone will be extremely skeptical.
But the remake was done in such an original way while creating a very good movie in its own right, so I think it serves as a prime example of how a remake should be done.
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Bad remakes
Originally from S.Korea
VS A Tale of Two Sisters is to The Uninvited what Mozart is to Lil'Wayne.
I will quote some IMDB users that seems to share my feelings:
A Tale of Two Sisters is an actual piece of quality cinema. The Uninvited is a hack-job made for teenagers
Janghwa, Hongryeon is better cast, better written, better directed, well.. just better.
The remake was so badly acted it looked like a school play, the dialogue was terrible, and was dumbed down beyond belief.
A Tale of Two Sisters is an excellent film, and The Univited lacks the ambience and emotion of A Tale of Two Sisters. I felt crushed for Soo-mi at the end of A Tale of Two Sisters, but I was pretty much emotionally uninvolved at the end of The Uninvited.
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