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Less bad than the original. Here's why:


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Any thoughts?

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you havent said anything(!) about why the remake is better than the original. not a word!

though i can understand some of your points why the plot of both movies are somewhat fantastic, i still rhink its a nice and heartful little flick. at least the original one.

you are right that people tend to have notmany friends and tend to live even less, but you havent seen that he feels like their father, he WANTS to like them and if you are confrontating yourself with other people in such an optimistic way, i am sure you would be able to see theirbest sides. that mustnt be that you fall in love in one second, but there is something to like in every person... nothing else is shown. it dorsnt show that he really loves them that much, just that he liles them, sometimes he is proud of them and so on. sure! this is somewhat lile a fairytale but okay, why not?! isnt the first time mainstream cinema is constructing phantastix stories.

to compare both films...i ve seen the original firstand then the remake. when i saw the second i had the chance to play them in synchronization, the newer one with sound on the tv and the original muted on the computer... they have reshot the whole film. the plot is completely rhe same! there is not even the smallest difference except that in the original the one son is a soccer player. the only difference are the actors, that they have a more american look and inthe canadian obe a more canadian/european style. the camera changed its position and the sourroundings look different. i liked the original much more. maybe because i am european, or becausei ve seen it first, bur i also think it has more honest heart and more atmosphere.
the second one is nothing more than a more mainstream made 1:1-clone and it is really wuestionable if it is reall needed that hollywood is remaking the most popular european and asian movies, though this time itwas a franco-canadian one.

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sorry for some mistakes: i am not a native speaker and using the cellphone for writing this comment was also not the best decision ;-)

for example: "live should have been "love in the 2nd or 3rd sentence

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