But then I can just re-watch the Dawn of the Dead re-make.
Yeah, I hate that. small changes, okay, I can get behind that. I like to not know exactly what's going to happen next. For example, the changes in Lord of the Rings don't bother me too much, save for the exclusion of the Hobbits saving the Shire at the end, and expanding Arwen's role just because she was the biggest star going in. But I was not one of those people who cried foul at the condensed timeline or the explanation of the Uruk-Hai.
For example: Doom.
I don't get the motivation to do so either. Is it some bullshit artistic twist by directors? They always seem to have to "make it their own." I understand the need to alter some things from the source material of everything, but some things are just horribly "re-imagined".
I also hate how some makers of video game movies feel the need to make sure everyone know it's from a video game, like references to gamey shit like "Game Over" in Street Fighter or the first-person parts of Doom, or the cutscene-styled exposition bit "Congratulations!" from Silent Hill.
I don't remember that part.
Bottom of the hospital, right after she gets past the nurses.
I'm assuming you mean that change in theme and pacing brought about by the running zombies makes it debatable, not the running zombies themselves. Whether zombies run or not is not the point, it's what running zombies does to the focus and theme of zombie films. Sorry, in a film-geeky mood.
FoD fair enough, but Mag7 is very much an explicit remake, they even adapted the original script, not just the story.
Very much so.
I didn't see the original, but does this one really count? I've heard it's more a second try at adapting the original novella than a straight re-make. Quibbling, of course.
Ah. So they just changed the names and setting, basically? I stand corrected on that.I'm assuming you mean that change in theme and pacing brought about by the running zombies makes it debatable, not the running zombies themselves. Whether zombies run or not is not the point, it's what running zombies does to the focus and theme of zombie films. Sorry, in a film-geeky mood.
FoD fair enough, but Mag7 is very much an explicit remake, they even adapted the original script, not just the story.
Well, the last thread about it didn't quite make it to steak-and-wiping territory so...
I read that Leone admitted he outright was remaking Yojimbo, and just didn't know that he needed permission for that and Kurosowa was quoted as saying something along the lines of "It is a very good movie. But it is MY movie". They were also similar enough that Kurosowa won a lawsuit against Leone, if memory serves.
That's all I was sayin'. haha
I've never seen the old Scarface, but I knew it existed. We talked about it briefly in my History of World Mafias class (seriously). Didn't actually realize the two movies had anything to do with eachother though. I find it funny that TWO movies have been made called Scarface and neither are about Al Capone.
I believe that is because the author, Neil Gaiman, was heavily involved. Generally speaking, the more involved the author is, the better the final product will be.
Crap, I have to watch Silent Hill again now don't I?
You don't; just take my word for it, or watch Phelous's two or three plothole reviews.
I'm pretty sure he was dead way before it ever actually went into production. I know he was pretty heavily involved in the script writing though... and he intentionally changed a lot of stuff because he liked to make each adaption a bit different. This is why the radio plays are different from the book, which is different from the movie.
I made it 7minutes into that review. That was a worse experience than watching the movie itself was. Yeeesh.
