Here is my usual pat statement reserved for any remake attempts:
NO MORE REMAKES OF FLAWLESS MASTERPIECES!!!! Enough already, wouldn't we all agree? The old adage "Why fix it if it ain't broke" rings loud in my ears every time I hear of yet ANOTHER remake, bad or good, being done. The worst of this trend these days are the old TV shows and cartoons being made into summer popcorn flicks. Pap, crap, and phooey! The Hollywood money machine knows that it can run a safe bet when rolling the dice with a remake. Inevitably people will go and see these things, though 99% of the time I do not for the life of me know why. It's guaranteed money in the bank, and the public keeps being suckered (or is stupid enough) to buy into it! There are many brilliant NEW screenplays out there and not enough producers and studios with the stones big enough to take risks. I hate that.
*ABOUT THE "NEW" MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" - I was duly impressed by the updating of this film, by the change of "Manchurian" now being in reference to a major corporation creating a "dummy" to take the presidency - something which is happening today already! It is as if Demme, with the blessings of Sinatra (and Sinatra's daughter, the film's producer) saw a great film & script and his real conviction of how this story would play out today was an important story which he wished to convey to the audience. This did not read as a film being remade simply for financial gain by any means. This , along with its brilliant cats, its fantastic direction, its remodeled story, made this one of the few remakes I applaud!
T.Paul
NO MORE REMAKES OF FLAWLESS MASTERPIECES!!!! Enough already, wouldn't we all agree? The old adage "Why fix it if it ain't broke" rings loud in my ears every time I hear of yet ANOTHER remake, bad or good, being done. The worst of this trend these days are the old TV shows and cartoons being made into summer popcorn flicks. Pap, crap, and phooey! The Hollywood money machine knows that it can run a safe bet when rolling the dice with a remake. Inevitably people will go and see these things, though 99% of the time I do not for the life of me know why. It's guaranteed money in the bank, and the public keeps being suckered (or is stupid enough) to buy into it! There are many brilliant NEW screenplays out there and not enough producers and studios with the stones big enough to take risks. I hate that.
*ABOUT THE "NEW" MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" - I was duly impressed by the updating of this film, by the change of "Manchurian" now being in reference to a major corporation creating a "dummy" to take the presidency - something which is happening today already! It is as if Demme, with the blessings of Sinatra (and Sinatra's daughter, the film's producer) saw a great film & script and his real conviction of how this story would play out today was an important story which he wished to convey to the audience. This did not read as a film being remade simply for financial gain by any means. This , along with its brilliant cats, its fantastic direction, its remodeled story, made this one of the few remakes I applaud!
T.Paul
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