Fair enough... Does that mean we can create a petition for Europe and Asia to stop ripping off the better films made in the U.S. as well? If so, I'm all for it..
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Or you could just stop watching them. And people have a point, I wouldn't have known this movie or the grudge or the ring or rec (which is not Jap but whatever) without the remakes. And real horror fans will watch the original if they are interested enough any ways. So who really cares?
Lumos :)
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In the case of this one both films sucked. Tired, repetitive, unbelievable ...
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.
The skirt-raised panty-twisted hands-in-air tantrums about remakes of asian horror films are getting pretty funny. You hear words like "rip-off" and "stealing." You hear about lazy, stupid americans who won't read subtitles. There is a strange combination of ignorance and arrogance in all the hysteria which is baffling.
To set a few things straight:
Nobody is getting ripped off. The rights are being purchased, often at a hefty price. Money is being made all the way around. Many times the original participants are involved in the remake. No master of asian horror is crying into his beer that those horrible americans stole his movie.
Americans are not "too lazy" or "too stupid" to read subtitles. The population of people who truly love the art and mastery of asian horror and seek those films out is simply small. These remakes actually attract more viewership to the original. Everybody wins.
Not every remake is horrible. Some of the remakes actually offer a higher budget and broader scope than the original. Some of them (not many, but some) are simply better films. Of course there will be alterations in the cultural translation that will irk purists, but some of the remakes are downright good movies.
Americans are not the only people remaking films from other countries. While American films often get worldwide release, there have been many many films that were remade by other countries. This is done not only for language purposes but also to make the stories more culturally relevant to the viewer. Rather than hurting the american filmmakers efforts, it exposes his/her concepts and ideas to a broader audience.
Thus is art shared around the world. Everybody take a breath. Enjoy all the films you love to enjoy, and pan the ones you don't, but let go of the uneducated and unsubstantiated fury over remakes.
Movies are IQ tests. The IMDB boards are each person's opportunity to broadcast their score.
Agree totally. Takes away the cream and soul of the movie and turns it into absolute drivel to fend off interest from orignal version if unseen. Why can't people just read subtitle? They aren't so hard and accurate most of the time.
shareI agree. I feared Ringu, but fell asleep during the Ring, and I feared the original of this, Miike style, but holy *beep* the remake, I could not watch it all the way through because I can hardly remember the last time I was this BORED
shareYou do realize Japan remakes American films too, right? I mean it's like people think only Hollywood remakes films. Other countries remake American films, too.
Are the originals better? Mostly but sometimes Hollywood gets it right. Look at The Departed which is a remake of Infernal Affairs. Both good films.
-Nam
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