I'll go really slow for you...
"Then you said it was like watching the same football match or quiz show twice" - no i didn't i said watching two football matches or quiz shows, i never said the same match or show twice...
"So where's the contradiction?" - you say the films aren't the same, yet you seem to find it weird that "you sat through the same film twice in a day" - there's you're contradicition...
"Your thinking that both films were the same" - they have the same title, the same plot, the same writer. I think it's pretty safe to assume they are the same film they just don't have the same cast and don't always use the exact same words. If they weren't the same there would be no point in making any sort of comparison between them, or posting a thread entitled 'Funnier than the original'.
"Maybe you and your friend just didn't get the different humour in the newer version" "you entirely ignored the black comedy" - like i keep telling you i enjoy the films of Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence, Columbus Short and i can assure you i did get the jokes, otherwise i wouldn't be analysing them as being 'over simplified' versions of the 2007 jokes.
I've also said it wasn't all bad there where some moments that were good and made me laugh (even ones not as good as the 2007 version), but they were few and far between. I never said i didn't laugh, i was simply not agreeing that this version is 'Funnier than the original'
I actually saw the trailer for this version before i even knew there was a 2007 version, and i thought from the trailer that it looked like a good, funny film. It is but it's not as good as the original.
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for_crying_out_loud
14 years ago
I agree with you completely px54. The humour in the original is so much more subtle and less in your face, which I think goes better seeing as the film is set at a funeral.
It is personal preference and of course some people are going to say the remake is better but personally i don't think it even comes close, maybe i was just annoyed that the remake was almost identical. Also I just do not find Martin Lawrence funny.
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sazzrah
14 years ago
The fact that this film was made at all is just an insult to the original if you ask me. The original isn't 20 years old or something, it was released in 2007! Why does Hollywood feel the need to rip off the cinematic successes of other countries and peddle them as its own? Are the American public that resistant to foreign films?
Other British films have gone down well in the past State-side, so what exactly was the point of remaking a barely 3 year old film with effectively the same script - supplanting the British cast with an American one? Insulting really is the only word.
This reminds me so much of the Swedish film Let The Right One In which has also been remade into an All-American affair, washed clean of its true European roots and in the process losing some of the complexities of the narrative and storyline to fit the tastes of the American movie-goer. That's just a travesty, to think amazing works such as Let The Right One In are being watered down and ruined for the sake of the audience - that's not how art works, it's supposed to be challenging and dramatic, it's meant to make you think and push the limits.
The Swedish are rightly displeased to see one of their best films reduced to a Hollywood shadow of its former self. Why can't Hollywood and the American public embrace foreign films and media like we embrace theirs? Ultimately they're the ones that lose out.
I would suggest to anyone reading this to forget about this remake and watch the original. It was how this story was meant to be told, and how it should be truly enjoyed in the right context.
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