Petition To Stop Future American Versions Of Good Japanese Movies
Starting.... now.
Stop.
I hate people who thinks their opinions are better than others. Some people (including me) don't find those remakes THAT bad, and I'm quite glad that they're made, cause I probably wouldn't have known the original if it wasn't for them.
Besides, it's not like those remakes prevented Japan from making any other movies. Just don't watch the remakes and stop whining.
Look how many people agreed with me though. And yes, the remakes ARE that bad. If you wanted to find out about Asian movies, I mean come on, you have an internet connection right? It's not too hard to search for them or find out if any are good, just search on google for "Asian movies," it's that simple.
Whining? How am I whining about something that I'm giving a comment about on a movie website mostly dealing with rating them? There was my rating about the idea of them making *beep* American versions of Asian movies. Any other idiotic things you want to throw out there sir Dickins?
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"it's not like the remake hurts anyone"
No, it just totally insults the intelligence (not to mention Miike Takashi) that's all. Not to mention just completely missing the more subtle points that the original film was trying to make... People try to compare remakes to song cover versions - erm, when was the last time a cover version cost over $100 million dollars to record....?
People who cant be arsed to find out about the originals dont deserve good films, they deserve trash, and those of us who do make the effort to watch a subtitled or 'older' film film shouldn't have to suffer endless, tacky Yank rubbish that just sh!ts all over the originals and makes a complete mockery of them (I think "The Departed" - based upon the HK film "Infernal Affairs" - is probably the one exception to the rule, mind you, that's probably becausse it has a REAL film-maker making it and not a talentless HACK!!!!). Christ, you even do it with your *own* horror films - "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Amityville Horror" being three such examples...
I'm just waiting for somebody to totally ruin "[Rec]", "The Orphanage" or "Battle Royale" to be honest.....
...Or maybe even "Don't Look Now"??
To utilise American phraseology (just to make it simple for you) - REMAKES SUCK!!!!!
I can't stand the American remakes either, so I don't watch them. No one is forcing you to "suffer" through any movie... except yourself.
shareYou make me laugh AT you. Nothing you said matters to anyone.
The reason an American remake isn't that good is because the original is garbage.
I think the original films are bad to begin with. Japanese horror is a snore. In a culture that bought us the Samurai you'd expect to see bucket loads of blood, but no, it's a little black and white girl who moves weirdly. Or it's ghostly images in photo's.
Japanese horror is about vengeful spirits. It's saying people who wrong others will be punished in a supernatural way. Fair enough, if that's what they like fine, but the way they do it is completely boring. That emotionless, cold stilted way they make the movies finds it's way into the remakes.
The original Japanese material is what I don't like about the remakes.
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Scientologists love Narnia, there's plenty of closet space.
That's just like...your opinion though. Everything you said you don't like is why I do like Japanese horror.
Try Ichi the Killer or Tokyo Gore Police, but keep in mind that the gore is pretty exaggerated and not realistic at all.
You fail to realise the original Japanese movies are crap. Every American remake is at least watchable because they're in English. The thing is the worst part of any of these remakes is the weak source material of the original Japanese movie. They're boring movies. Oh look another vengeful ghost, whooooo didn't see that coming.
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Scientologists love Narnia, there's plenty of closet space.
Don't you know that everything is supposed to be a community decision? We're asymptotically approaching our communist utopia.
shareIf you don't think they're that bad, then I seriously question your taste in film.
share"thinks their opinion are better than others" nowhere did OP state that. He/she just wrote "plz no more remakes" which is his/her opinion. And I bloody *beep* agree. These *beep* remakes, not just of asian horror but of scandinavian dramas and french neorealism too, are so bad that it is a plague for the filmscape. If you like them have fun, but holy *beep* I find it a waste of time and every bloody list of films out there include the remakes which makes it almost impossible to just find the originals.... This film made me cringe of embarrasement for remakes all over....
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