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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 409020" data-attributes="member: 23">I suspect there are probably more remake fails than good ones, but I wouldn&#039;t know for sure because if I&#039;m familiar with the original I&#039;m less inclined to watch a remake.The two most samey remakes I&#039;ve sat through are Disney&#039;s own remake of its earlier The Lion King and Gus Van Sant&#039;s remake of Psycho. The latter in particular feels rather like a piece&nbsp; of expressive art that means more to the creator than the audience... as if he made it just to prove he could, without consideration for whether or not he should. Arguably that gives it a kind of value, so perhaps I could revisit it someday, but overall it&#039;s just bizarre to watch the same film made up of the same shots with (mostly less charismatic) actors doing a kind of karaoke of the original.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 409020, member: 23"] I suspect there are probably more remake fails than good ones, but I wouldn't know for sure because if I'm familiar with the original I'm less inclined to watch a remake. The two most samey remakes I've sat through are Disney's own remake of its earlier [I]The Lion King [/I]and Gus Van Sant's remake of [I]Psycho[/I]. The latter in particular feels rather like a piece of expressive art that means more to the creator than the audience... as if he made it just to prove he [I]could[/I], without consideration for whether or not he [U][I]should[/I][/U]. Arguably that gives it a kind of value, so perhaps I could revisit it someday, but overall it's just bizarre to watch the same film made up of the same shots with (mostly less charismatic) actors doing a kind of karaoke of the original. [/QUOTE]

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