Look, I know why remakes get made - the almighty dollar. I get it. Well, in some ways I do and in some ways, I don’t. But for the love of all in this world that is sunshine and rainbow-y goodness, can we not leave some things alone? Can’t some movies be like art in a museum, where you get fifteen feet from them and if you get any closer, the burglar bars and silent alarms activate before you can get your nasty, greasy, grubby hands all over that Picasso?
I just read this: Natalie Portman will star in a remake of Suspiria, due in 2010.
Is nothing sacred?
First Halloween. Then Friday the 13th. Now they’re in the process of remaking Nightmare on Elm Street. And then comes the announcement that Suspiria is going to be remade.
Why?! Tell me why, God, tell me why!
For heaven’s sakes, there’s NOTHING wrong with the original. If we have all really reached the point in movie-going culture where people are too lazy to watch the original damn movie, or complain that it’s too “old” or whatever, we have some serious problems. Guys, I have an idea, let’s just not make anymore new movies. Let’s just remake the same damn movies over and over again. It’s all easier on our brains, right, rather than coming up with something new-fangled and original?
For the record, I call shenanigans.
This is why we can’t have nice things. And I swear to Jimmy Stewart, I’m going to pull this car over if one of you in the backseat even remotely thinks about messing with one more Hitchcock movie, because there CERTAINLY IS one unnecessary Birds remake in the pipeline right now.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to quietly slink into my premature old ladyhood and feel sad.
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Even for a remake, that doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Still, they excite me. I’m sorry, but they do. :-\
J.D., it’s okay. My twenty seven cats will comfort me as I watch reruns of the Golden Girls and crochet afghans, because I’m twenty-something going on a codgery seventy or so.
I’m just a bitter old wench at heart, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. :D
as I watch reruns of the Golden Girls and crochet afghans
I didn’t know you were anti-American AND anti-family values! (!!!!!)
Can you be my grandma?
Can you be my grandma?
Of course. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie, too. :D
So, if there’s an unnecessary remake of The Birds, that’ll make two unnecessary movie versions of The Birds total, right?
Ooh, burn on Hitchcock, Graham, burn! That’s not nice. ;)
I wouldn’t be excited for this at all except for hearing that David Gordon Green is the director. That gives me hope for something special.