Americanized Remakes

[surfdude12]

Vanilla Sky and The Ring are two of my all-time favorite films.

sure, there are tons of crappy American remakes, and there are tons of crappy foreign remakes. why the need to brand this an American issue? I dont' care where the remake is made (US, UK, China, India, or Pluto) - 99% of the time I won't watch it or enjoy it.

[Q?]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

Vanilla Sky and The Ring are two of my all-time favorite films.

sure, there are tons of crappy American remakes, and there are tons of crappy foreign remakes. why the need to brand this an American issue? I dont' care where the remake is made (US, UK, China, India, or Pluto) - 99% of the time I won't watch it or enjoy it.

It's not branded as a american issue, that was not my intention anyways, it's just that american remakes have more exposure.
This thread is about americanized remakes specifically.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by Q!

It's not branded as a american issue, that was not my intention anyways, it's just that american remakes just have more exposure.
This thread is just about the americanized remakes is all I'm saying.

gotcha agreed that american remakes do get more exposure. i do try endlessly to get my friends to watch foreign films, often to no avail.

[Agent Cooper]

The Vanishing was vastly inferior compared to the original Dutch Spoorloos and to make things even worse, Hollywood hired the same director to do the remake and radically changed the climax of the movie.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

Vanilla Sky and The Ring are two of my all-time favorite films.

sure, there are tons of crappy American remakes, and there are tons of crappy foreign remakes. why the need to brand this an American issue? I dont' care where the remake is made (US, UK, China, India, or Pluto) - 99% of the time I won't watch it or enjoy it.

I too agree that The Ring was far superior to Ringu. I know most ppl on this site detest the film, which admittedly is a bit hokey after it has been seen a number of times, but I think the direction and distinct mood that Verbinski sets forth is excellent.

One film I am absolutely not looking forward to seeing the American remake of is The Lives of Others, which is rumored to be somewhere in the pipeline (who knows if this rumor is accurate).

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by repete66211

I love, love, love The Day of the Jackal, so naturally I look with contempt upon that piece of crap froim 1997 starring Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. Since Gere was in The Jackal, Shall We Dance and Breathless does he earn the crown for the king of the bad remakes?

If we can throw Chicago in there, I'm all for it.

[BRu-LAy]

The Ring remake I thought was better than the original

Anyone remember that NBC show Coupling? That one was interesting, because it was based off of a BBC show of the same name, and the BBC show was supposed to have been based on NBC's Friends. Did the remake come full circle?

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Originally Posted by KubrickFan

But as far as remakes go, what about The Vanishing?

That reminds me of Insomnia, a 1997 Norwegian film remand in 2002 by Christopher Nolan.