I saw the new version of Straw Dogs yesterday. It was okay but not as good as the original.
I saw the new version of Straw Dogs yesterday. It was okay but not as good as the original.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
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maybes...
judy garland's a star is born..iconic
3:10 to yuma..if i'm going to watch one over and over, i choose the new one.
italian job..new minis vs old ones
the thomas crowne affair...nina simone's "sinnerman" and bowler hats
cape fear..mitchum vs. de niro..toss up
father of the bride..love steve as much as spencer
ocean's eleven..george, george, george
true grit...toss up coen's better film, but there is the duke
Last edited by Sweetstop; 09-22-2011 at 08:42 AM.
teach tolerance.
The Magnificent Seven is a nice movie. But the Seven Samurai is fantastic. One of the greatest movies of all time. why not seek out the original? especially in the age of dvd. for me the same is true for just about all remakes. if the original is better than the remake then i'll watch the original.
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they can, i would agree..
but, if you're of a notion to watch foreign and/or early classic film...something many american moviegoers don't/won't do (based on bias or subtitlephobia )...they can still be compared film to film based on willm's remake premise .
taking your examples and imho:
neither are my cup of tea, but howard hawks' "scarface" w/ paul muni's emotional performance is better than de palma's twice as long, boring, violent mess.
i like classics "the magnificent seven" and "a fistful of dollars", but i love kurosawa's "seven samurai" and "yojimbo"...the wonderful toshiro mifune alone is enough.
(i really like both the nolan and scorsese movies you mentioned but haven't seen ones they're based on.)
looking forward to seeing what the american versions of "the girl with the dragon tattoo", etc. are like..see if they can do swedish better than the swedes.
teach tolerance.
I don't think so. His marriage to Bergona Palallos was off again and off again many times for many years, but his female characters through his career were generally depicted in lesser lights. Amy in Straw Dogs may have been his female character of lowest moral character, but she was not totally away from his characterization of women as untrustworthy, lesser humans.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
Meh, I enjoy contemporary movies more than black and white films from the first half of the 20th Century. So shoot me...
Just got back from a screening of "Moneyball". I really enjoyed the film. I think it will certainly appeal to baseball fans, but there is enough there to satisfy a casual fan (or Brad Pitt fan).
I'm sure some people won't be happy with how they are portrayed in the film, but I guess every story has to have a "bad guy". It was great to relive some of the memories of those games and remember some of the players.
I'm sure it will be a huge hit with RZers.
2013 Record at games attended: 0-1
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
I hearing some people didn't like Drive. I just saw it and loved it. It was kind of like Grand Theft Auto the movie. Great soundtrack too.
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Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
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