Just saw this and thought it was excellent. One of the most intense films I've ever seen. Everybody slams the remake though and I don't really have a desire to see it. So what did it do differently or poorly? I know people hate remakes in general, but what was specific? Spoilers welcomed.
shareit wasn't bad, it was just a remake, but I'd say the original feels a bit more realistic which is what IMO makes it a bit better, but the remake was fine.
shareI might give it a shot then. American remakes don't seem to bother me as much as most people. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Let Me In and The Uninvited were all perfectly fine movies just to name a few. And man, I really hate to break it to you but the correct spelling is "Pensky". Hopefully you can come up with an automotive twist to make it more witty.
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My problem with remakes are that they are just trying to cash-in at someone else's expense. I'd rather US theatres showed the original, this would get the creators more money and allow them to grow their art, instead some big company throws a *beep* of money at a semi-decent director and they make their own big wad of cash milking a Japanese or European cow.
They even do it with English-speaking movies, they will show a British film at about 3 out of every 1000 screens making little or no money for the producers and then a few years later it'll be remade by Warner Bros and Americans will laud this new 'original' American film. The US movie industry purposely tries to damage everyone else's to keep itself relevant and tries it's damnedest to convince 300,000,000 Americans that there is only 1 culture on Earth and everyone has an American accent. It's another form of dumbing down the US populace by it's own money-spinning institutions - and people wonder why gimps like Honey Boo Boo's mother think that Europe is somewhere in France!
I don't watch remakes, I like to see what life is like in other countries and see how they do stuff.
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I heard that in Quarantine they dropped the demon angle. I don't mind remakes but that's the reason I didn't watch it. It's what made REC so great, IMO.
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My problem was that they changed the ending. In [Rec] it's revealed that the viral outbreak was because of a girl who was possessed by a demon. The possessed are weak against crosses, Holy water, and other religious objects. In Quarantine,fearing backlash against the Catholic church, they changed it so now the viral outbreak is because of "super rabies"
shareWhats the point in remaking it? Thats the problem here, nobody actually quarantine
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