Brian De Palma's Passion is the better film of the two

nice coffee analogy, right as i am pouring my first cup for the day lol

sadly i think i probably won't see passion. saw this one, can't bring myself to watch the other when i already know the story


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"You are literally too stupid to insult."

"Thank you."

I think OP was too enchanted by Passion to see what a bad movie it is on its own - remake or not - and this unfortunately disqualifies him or her as somebody to make a sensible assessment of the original.

Let's be honest here, we all know why OP can't stand the original. He/she had to read subtitles and had to watch a lot of French people and that resulted in an obvious knee-jerk reaction to it.

Now the coffee analogy serves as a perfect example of how clueless OP is. Some people prefer their coffee black to taste the rich aroma of GOOD COFFEE and your average connoisseur of java will never do something as foolish as to dilute freshly ground beans with sugar(in this day of excessive sugar consumption no less) and cream. With the risk of coming across as condescending (albeit justifiably so) one can even say that those who have lots of cream and sugar in their coffee really can't appreaciate the taste of quality coffee.

"De Palma's version adds the cream, sugar and a lot more." Define "a lot more". What more could you possibly want in your coffee? Whiskey? To dull your blunt senses even more.

Now it's time to bring out the heavy artillery. While OP certainly has the right to praise any schlock the bottom line is that professional movie critics and the general movie going audience apparently failed to see the passion (pun intended) in this movie.

The critical aggregate on Rottentomatoes is merely 35% (21 out of 60 professional critics liked it) and when it comes to the Top Critics (the heavyweights in the business) it was an abysmal 16%, since 16 out 19 didn't like it.
The vote of the public is pretty telling too. 25%

The Imdb score is 5,3. That is also solely the (un)popular vote.

What about Metacritic then? 52 metascore from the critics and 4,8 user score.

Not exactly setting the world on fire is it?

In all fairness the original movie is an average drama, but the horrible remake elevates it to a position it otherwise wouldn't have. So you just keep adding lots of sugar and cream (and "a lot more") to your coffee cinematurd86.

sterile. that's a perfect way of describing this one.