Remake Starring Nicolas Cage
http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14868
How will they pull this off
In the same way they pulled off Ringu, Dark Water, The Eye (up coming), Battle Royale (up coming), a hundred others, and for Nick Cage himself, Gone in 60 Seconds...
sharewith my luck, i never see the original films before they get remade.
but i did see this one.
wtf?!
Pulled off Ringu, err did you actually watch them? The originals were many times better than the crap remakes. I really can't see how Battle Royale will be anything other than a waste of time as well. I guess Americans can't read and only like watching white actors.
This though sounds like a traditional thriller and I'm sure it will be watcheable.
ps. Gone in 60 Seconds can hardly be called a remake being that the only thing they have in common is car theft and the name. The car chase is about the only thing worth watching in the original, which is amazing.
It almost makes me physically ill to see all of these fine-as-is foreign films being dumbed down and crapped out by Hollywood. Most Americans I guess really are just too stupid to read subtitles. (Note: I am American myself)
shareThis is dull.
Blah, blah, blah. The original is so much better.
Just like a person is innocent untill proven guilty. The film is not crap untill it is proven to be crap. Ie. after they've released it or when you've seen it. They might change it enough to be a new film in its own right.
I would say The Departed was diffrent enough to the original Infernal Affairs to warrant a good mention on the remake front.
So why not get off your horse at least until you've seen the "dumbed down" remake_ There was nothing particularly clever about the film so it would be quite hard to dumb it down.
In all fairness to American remakes. If it weren't for the remake of Ringu it is doubtful whether all this interest in asian horror would of been generated. Speaking of Ringu neither the American or the Japanese film is entirely faithful to the Suzuki novel. Americans have done a great job with Ringu, Juon and Pulse. The only remake which I feel failed is Dark Water. Americans added too much to the story. It's an atmospheric thriller and should of been kept that way. Who knows how Cage will fair in a Bangkok Dangerous remake. I will say he's very good in action films , a lot will depend on the director.
What are you talking about? The Departed was almost exactly the same as Infernal Affairs, it just had white people instead of Chinese people in it.
shareI think it was different enough. I like both films.
ie. relationship between psychiatrist.
That's true...the differences that were in the Departed were nothing major. I'd watch Infernal Affairs over the Departed any day though. And I'd watch Infernal Affairs 2 over Infernal Affairs. IA2 was such a phenomenal film, imo...the ensemble cast they had was amazing.
shareI think it's more that they're too lazy. And that they just don't know about the originals to watch them. I agree that the foreign versions are usually a ton better. I think the bigger problem is that studios underestimate what viewing audiences might actually like. One movie with lots of action and special effects and minimal story comes out and is a hit and studios just assume that if they keep cranking those films out, audiences will be happy. I think a lot of people are to the point where they'd like movies with actual substance now. And me personally, also an American, I'd rather watch a foreign film with subtitles to see the original vision, the different cinematography styles, and acting instead of some tricked out Americanized version.
shareSorry to say, but those are all awful, awful remakes.
shareI love how it is the collective 'Americans' that are wrong. It's not Hollywood's fault it is every single American's fault. Grow up.
shareGuess where Hollywood is based? America.
Guess who it caters to primarily? Americans.
Guess who keeps the machine running, for good or for bad (in this case for bad), with their price of admission?
The stupid majority. Now, we've already established that the setting is America, so it stands to reason the stupid majority would consist of... Nigerians? No, not Nigerians. Americans. It IS the collective Americans that are wrong, because the majority of Americans support this *beep* by acting as a source of revenue for it and not for other cinematic endeavors.
Anything beyond that is pointless to discuss. In the supply and demand nature of capitalism and democracy, what the minority votes for and/or invests their money is, that's negligible. If you are a part of the minority you might as well not exist. Thus, it is completely correct to suggest it is "every single American's fault".
Sorry, Taem, but you are wrong. Check out domestic versus international grosses for any major Hollywood release and you will see that, more often than not, the latter trumps the former. Hollywood has long been making films with their eye towards foreign admissions. For the Pirates movies, as well as most superhero movies, children's films, Michael Bay "films", etc., the non-USA gross was higher than the USA gross. Even an English-language remake like the Ring, grossed over 100 million overseas. People from all around the world thrust their money into the Hollywood coffers, prompting the studios to continue producing the dreck that they do. Thus, by your own logic, it is fair and correct to blame the entire world's movie-going audience for these terrible films, and not just the Americans.
Just to give you a bit of anecdotal evidence: when I was Paris, I decided to stop into a cinema to catch Das Leben der Anderen. I was nearly alone in my theater, while there was a line around the block to get into a screening of Epic Movie (inexplicably called "Big Movie" in France). Trust me, Americans don't have a monopoly on bad taste.
Hey, guess who's movies don't make it to America except through a remake?
If the originals are so perfect, tell whoever makes them to try releasing them here, otherwise shut the hell up and let us have our "dumbed down" versions because the originals sure aren't show up until after the remake.
Americans aren't "too lazy to read"; it's simply annoying to waste the time to speed read the subtitles AND miss the action. If we wanted to read, we'd buy the book.
@zekk4hire
If the originals are so perfect, tell whoever makes them to try releasing them here, otherwise shut the hell up and let us have our "dumbed down" versions because the originals sure aren't show up until after the remake.
The problem being that the cinema market is basically oligopolised. Have a look at Sweden (used to be alot of small establishments) which evolved to two larger chains (one considerbly larger than the other) but while two chains were up there was some diverse set of movies being displayed. Then after a few years of holding out the larger chain took over its competitor, it wasn't long until diversity in movies took a severe hit. Yes you can still find single cinemas that are not part of the large chains, but those are rare exceptions and not the rule.
@Spongeyone
Watch the original, it'll help debating what is rational or not within the context.
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