Watched fifteen minutes of the PSYCHO remake. While it's pointless to harp on such a universally despised bad idea, I have to ask: who the hell thought it was a good idea to cast Vince fucking Vaughn as Norman Bates?
Ugh. I sat through it during my first year of law school, when I was trying to watch all of Viggo's movies. (I've since stopped trying to do that...there are some that were a v. bad idea. Not his fault, but bad ideas nonetheless.) I feel the same way about movie remakes as I do about covers of songs. I think we may have discussed that before. If you're going to do one, there has to be something different and yours about it. Otherwise, it's just an impression and will leave me cold. So redoing a classic film shot for shot just because you can is nothing but a party trick. Not to mention insulting to Hitchcock and his cast. *shakes head* Gus Van Sant, you are not that cool.
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Ugh. I sat through it during my first year of law school, when I was trying to watch all of Viggo's movies. (I've since stopped trying to do that...there are some that were a v. bad idea. Not his fault, but bad ideas nonetheless.) I feel the same way about movie remakes as I do about covers of songs. I think we may have discussed that before. If you're going to do one, there has to be something different and yours about it. Otherwise, it's just an impression and will leave me cold. So redoing a classic film shot for shot just because you can is nothing but a party trick. Not to mention insulting to Hitchcock and his cast. *shakes head* Gus Van Sant, you are not that cool.