It's a mystery to me why Americans have to remake everything, upping the violence, gore, sex, idiocy.
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "marian_changling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not optimistic. It's strange. I've watched several foriegn movies paired with their American counterparts. The American movies almost always fail with me. The only exception that I can think of is "The Lake House". It's not just horror movies that suffer. "Wings of Desire" became a less worthy american movie, "City of Angels" "The Wicker Man" because an absolutely awful American movie. I prefer "Ringu" to "The Ring". The Dutch film "The Vanishing" became a lousy film, even though done by the same director. On the other hand, other countries eat up our action-adventure pictures like crazy. Is there a national character that can not be translated into film? We can make a "Die-Hard" and no one else can? They can make "Oldboy" and we can't? (and yes, I heard that there is an American version of that planned.) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do you think it will be changed when it's redone as an American film? > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "marian_changling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I loved it. Some many American horror films have become blood fests. > The old type of horror that made your flesh crawl is difficult to find > now. > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella" <tdlists@> > wrote: > > > > I kind of agreed with him. While it was okay, after reading rave > reviews, > > it was kind of a letdown. Maybe if my expectations had not been > built up. > > Have you seen it? What did you think? > > >
