Scarface remake

[oeccscclhjhn]

I thoroughly enjoyed The Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit (2010). As a matter of fact, I love both of them.

[oeccscclhjhn]

Every now and then... ... Cape Fear, The Thing, War of the Worlds, Ocean's Eleven, Zatoichi, Scent of a Woman, 3:10 to Yuma, Casino Royale, A Fistful of Dollars.

[P47P47]

Originally Posted by oeccscclhjhn

I thoroughly enjoyed The Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit (2010). As a matter of fact, I love both of them.

While I thought that both versions were good, I prefer the original, mainly because I found Kim Darby to be even more annoying than the actress portraying Mattie in the remake. Also liked Dennis Hopper's short-lived (as usual for him at that time) character. Both versions had unnecessary deviations from the book.

I thought that the remake had a more authentic period look. The original was too Hollywood "pretty". Too many clean-shaven men, clothes (and everything else) too clean, no horse manure in streets.

Both versions did a good job of using Charles Portis' period/place-authentic dialog.

[wonderwall]

Yes, occasional remakes can be fantastic, and can even outdo the original. Same with sequels.

For me personally, anything beyond a very occasional occurrence is bull***.

I know some of you guys have accepted it, because you think movie makers have run out of ideas. Well, do we really need 10 movies to come out every weekend? What if studios saved their money, resources and effort and create fewer, but better quality movies? What would you rather have? I am not saying every movie has to be Titanic or The Godfather, i.e. an instant classic. I mean, just more inspired?

But no...............with them, it's volume that motivates them. Quantity wins over quality, and sadly, that's what we've all come to expect, and ultimately, accept!

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by wonderwall

Yes, occasional remakes can be fantastic, and can even outdo the original. Same with sequels.

For me personally, anything beyond a very occasional occurrence is bull***.

I know some of you guys have accepted it, because you think movie makers have run out of ideas. Well, do we really need 10 movies to come out every weekend? What if studios saved their money, resources and effort and create fewer, but better quality movies? What would you rather have? I am not saying every movie has to be Titanic or The Godfather, i.e. an instant classic. I mean, just more inspired?

But no...............with them, it's volume that motivates them. Quantity wins over quality, and sadly, that's what we've all come to expect, and ultimately, accept!

Here's the thing with the studios, we only really see anywhere from one (weekend of blockbusters like Avengers, Hunger Games or perhaps Batman v. Superman) to at best four, maybe five. The four to five movies released in a weekend are typically counter-programmed movies where they wouldn't really battle in demographics like say releasing the drama Woman in Gold against action film Furious 7 the first weekend in April or in June when the family oriented Disney-Pixar movie Inside Out is released the same weekend as The Transporter Refuled, a reboot of the The Transporter series of action movies.

Another issue is that we don't see as many mid-ranged movies anymore and most studios cut down the movies they release each year. For instance, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has only released two Touchstone movies since their deal with Dreamworks Pictures to release Dreamworks live action through Touchstone (the first being 2011's remake of Fright Night) with The Wind Rises (a Studio Ghibli US release) and Strange Magic (LucasFilm's first release through Disney.) Walt Disney's motion pictures division on had 13 releases last year as Walt Disney Pictures had five releases; Touchstone had three; Marvel Studios had two; DisneyNature, DisneyToon Studos, and Walt Disney Feature Animation had one each. The studios are only releasing films that should be sure-fire hits (baring DisneyNature) and passing on others.