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DigModiFicaTion said:TVs Frink said:A Quiet Place spoiler, I guess.
The fact that they even got anywhere near having a baby, and then the movie didn't bother to explain why they had a baby (Accident? On purpose?) made me rather angry.
Unfortunately the reasoning behind this requires a watch of the supplemental material where Krasinski, Blunt, Woods and Beck reveal the character motivations.
thecuddlyninja said:Raw (2016)
A gruesome coming of age story, very well done.
Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
If you don't see them, how would you know?
Off the top of my head, there have been a lot of good remakes in the last 20 years: Ocean's 11, Freaky Friday, 3:10 to Yuma, Insomnia, Departed and one of my favorite films of the time period, True Grit. Remakes are definitely dicey positions and often disappointing but there's way too much good stuff for me to ever write off the whole concept.
Duragizer said:thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
If you don't see them, how would you know?
Off the top of my head, there have been a lot of good remakes in the last 20 years: Ocean's 11, Freaky Friday, 3:10 to Yuma, Insomnia, Departed and one of my favorite films of the time period, True Grit. Remakes are definitely dicey positions and often disappointing but there's way too much good stuff for me to ever write off the whole concept.
Ocean's Eleven and Freaky Friday aren't the types of movies which would interest me to begin with; Insomnia's a Nolan film and I dislike Nolan; and both versions of True Grit are based on the same novel, so I'd hesitate to call the new film a remake of the old.
But anyway, pretty much every remake I'm talking about has been in the horror or sci-fi genres, and every one I've seen has been bad without exception.
thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
If you don't see them, how would you know?
Duragizer said:thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
If you don't see them, how would you know?
Off the top of my head, there have been a lot of good remakes in the last 20 years: Ocean's 11, Freaky Friday, 3:10 to Yuma, Insomnia, Departed and one of my favorite films of the time period, True Grit. Remakes are definitely dicey positions and often disappointing but there's way too much good stuff for me to ever write off the whole concept.
Ocean's Eleven and Freaky Friday aren't the types of movies which would interest me to begin with; Insomnia's a Nolan film and I dislike Nolan; and both versions of True Grit are based on the same novel, so I'd hesitate to call the new film a remake of the old.
But anyway, pretty much every remake I'm talking about has been in the horror or sci-fi genres, and every one I've seen has been bad without exception.
Moe_Syzlak said:I thought Jackson’s King Kong was borderline bad.
thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:thecuddlyninja said:Duragizer said:I decided to relax my strict anti-remake stance this one time and check it out.
It's the absolutely only remake made in the past twenty years that is good.
If you don't see them, how would you know?
Off the top of my head, there have been a lot of good remakes in the last 20 years: Ocean's 11, Freaky Friday, 3:10 to Yuma, Insomnia, Departed and one of my favorite films of the time period, True Grit. Remakes are definitely dicey positions and often disappointing but there's way too much good stuff for me to ever write off the whole concept.
Ocean's Eleven and Freaky Friday aren't the types of movies which would interest me to begin with; Insomnia's a Nolan film and I dislike Nolan; and both versions of True Grit are based on the same novel, so I'd hesitate to call the new film a remake of the old.
But anyway, pretty much every remake I'm talking about has been in the horror or sci-fi genres, and every one I've seen has been bad without exception.
Two of my favorite horror films of all time are remakes (The Thing and the Fly) but to each their own. I agree that most remakes in those genres suck.
I don't think I fully understand your definition of remake, but I guess it's an amorphous concept. Like, is Ghostbusters? The Fast and the Furious? A Star is Born? I get what you're saying about True Grit because it's based on the book, though those two films have much, much more in common than the two Suspiria films. Arguably, the two Suspirias complement each other thematically better, but that's a matter of opinion.
Regardless, I do categorically disagree with your absolute statement about no good remakes in the last 20 years but I philosophically understand where you're coming from and mostly agree.