No Reason to Exist?
I have to laugh at the reviewer who said this remake has no reason to exist. Neither did the original -- it was just a bad ripoff of Easy Rider.
shareYou are right and you are wrong. The original Vanishing Point is a rip off of Easy Rider, but it's a GOOD rip off. It has it's own point of view, it's own tone, it's own mysteries. If your affection for Easy Rider keeps you from appreciating other people's sympathetic reaction to it, then you've crossed the line into Obsession. Relax, they're BOTH just movies, and both very good. Well OK, Easy Rider is very, VERY good. BUT, this TV rip off is a stinking turd.
shareWhat, you read a few words by me, and that makes you qualified to shrink my brain? I have no special affection for "Easy Rider". Haven't seen it for decades, don't want to see it again.
You're confusing me with all the fanboys who get all rabid when their favorite movie gets remade or ripped off. That's not me: I'm perfectly willing to judge a ripoff on its own merits.
Except that VP has none. It just runs over the same social and political ground, trying to be trendy, but not having any feeling for the material. The actors are all TV hacks, the script is excruciatingly corny, and the attempts to evoke the 60s counterculture are beyond lame. I mean jeez, if you must have a nude motorcyclist with a magical resistance to Nevada sunburn, can't you at least cast someone who knows how to ride?
Bad movies are always painful to watch. (Unless you're into "so bad it's good", which I am not.) But bad ripoffs are especially painful, because they rub your nose in the absence of creativity.
Everyone is entitled to their ignorant opinion.
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