Originally posted by: greencapt
As not to get my blood pressure up this morning...
Here's my personal rule of thumb for remakes:
If you set out to remake a MOVIE (basing your remake on the original film), its probably a bad idea. If you are going back to the source material (book, etc) and trying to do what you think is a better job then you *might* be ok (or even if it sucks your heart might be in the right place.)
As not to get my blood pressure up this morning...
Here's my personal rule of thumb for remakes:
If you set out to remake a MOVIE (basing your remake on the original film), its probably a bad idea. If you are going back to the source material (book, etc) and trying to do what you think is a better job then you *might* be ok (or even if it sucks your heart might be in the right place.)
I'll concur. One thying I would love to see is a remake of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. As much as I enjoyed Blade Runner, I'd love to see what a talented filmmaker like Darren Aronofsky could do with the source material. Of course, I'll probably get crucified for this suggestion. I still feel that for all of its visual inventiveness, Blade Runner suffers one fatal flaw: Ridley Scott and his screenwriters didn't "get" the book.