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About the commentary on the DVD (there might be spoilers)...

posted 13 years ago by JackietheStripper
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I just watched Quarantine with commentaries and I noticed that the director and the producer didn't mention Rec once. I mean, it's not like they have to, but it seemed to me that they took the credit for the scenes that were directly taken from Rec, like the scene where that fireman falls down from the stairs. And when we meet the African family that doesn't speak english they say that they wanted to have someone who didn't know the language in all the chaos, but Rec had that Chinese family so it wasn't really an original idea (although the Chinese people did know a little bit Spanish)..
Did anyone else notice this?

(Sorry for any spelling mistakes!)

[–] rmcrae_deluxe 13 years ago

I read that the producers of Rec offered to help the Dowdle Bros. on Quarantine, but they declined. They used most of the same shots anyway and tried to play it off like it was their creation alone. Pretty underhanded.

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[–] land_of_chocolate 13 years ago

I just came on this board to say the exact same thing!

I watch "the making of" and "creating the infected" on the bluray and they were talking about creating sertain scenes, and storylines as if it was their creation. When 95% of the movie was an exact copy of rec...? What's up with that?
Don't the original writers of rec get mad when they see it?

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[–] land_of_chocolate 13 years ago

And also they were talking about the "skinny man" at the end.

They said "we didn't know how it had to look, there was verylittle detail about it in the script so we had to create an original, scary looking skinny monster thing"

But they just made the exact copy of the skinny man in rec..? Are they really trying to copycap everything? damn...

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[–] JackietheStripper 13 years ago

I'm so glad to see that people agree with me. Seems to me that they don't think anyone outside of Spain has seen Rec..

[–] Mankind-5 13 years ago

Watching it again as I post, and yes, it is VERY annoying that these guys sit back and chill like they're geniuses coming up with everything.

It doesn't take away for my like of the movie tho. I love, LOVE [REC]. Easily one of THE best movies of the past 10 years, and for a remake, Quarantine is a very good flick. It stays very very true to the original, and for these guys to record a commentary, acting like they created sliced bread, while eating a loaf of Wonder, just irks me to no end. So many little things that just annoy me with the commentary.

Even the making of, with the "the designers created such a fantastic set. A building that feels real... blahblahblah", meanwhile, it's a 98% exact replica of the one from [REC]. The only original spots in the movie are honestly the weakest moments... the leg scene aside.

My only real problems with Q over R is the fact that the camera seems too much like a cinematic camera, and not a "real world, running for you life" camera. Always perfectly in focus and perfectly framed. Takes the mood/atmosphere out of it that was there in the original.

[–] rossjohnson2806 13 years ago

It really bothered me as well, i watched the making of and a little bit of the commentary to hear them talk about the original but couldn't find them mentioning it. Seems so strange they wouldn't acknowledge the original when they barely changed anything.

[–] JackietheStripper 13 years ago

Yeah, I was expecting to at least hear why they chose to make a remake but there was absolutely nothing. Weird.

[–] hels-dunleavy 13 years ago

I had to smile at this thread a little bit - in a good way though, not in a taking the piss way; I've seen a lot of interviews with the more obscure, unsuccessful writers and filmmakers, and whenever there's an interview with someone whose main impressive job has been writing the adaptation of a comic book that wasn't a successful film, or doing an english language rip off of a foreign film, or being the credited writer of a novel adaptation who in reality was supported by five other writers who fixed their mistakes but they technically wrote the most stuff so get the credit, 9 times out of ten this is how it plays out. Seems to be there's some equation out there:

Mediocre talent and bitter denial of that fact + only famous job is ripping off something that might be more obscure to the viewer than their own version = arrogant lies and embarrassing omissions of original source influence to indulge in the fantasy that they are actually convincing millions of people that they're imaginative and innovative.

And really, in this case, can you blame em? - it's not like they've got bumper stickers saying 'My other movie is Inception'.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 7 years ago

That's very sad to hear how the filmmakers didn't even acknowledge [Rec]1 once, and even worse, take credit for scenes that were in the original!

The only thing different here is a dog dashes through a door in one jump scare, an elevator scene and a few extra moments inside one apartment. And the Jennifer Carpenter character does seem to flirt more with the fireman. Other than that, it's one of the closest horror recreations/remakes I've seen (or any genre for that matter). Characters in Quarantine stand in almost the same exact spot as in the original.