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So with my computer broken, and Japanese TV being what it is (mostly about ramen) I've been renting tons of movies. And I've decided that Hollywood is going about the remaking thing all wrong. Classics don't need remaking. That's why they're classics. You ought to just re-release them. What does need remaking are those movies that are ALMOST really good. You know the ones I mean, they're ok, there's something there, but something is just slightly off and it keeps the movies from being great.
My classic example of this is 'Fools Rush In' a comedy with that guy from Friends and I think Selma Hayek (sp?). They have a one night stand, she gets pregnant, he tries to do the right thing and they get married and fall in love from there. It has some excellent jokes, and his timing is dead on. She had the comic timing of a...something not funny. (It wasn't till Dogma that I was shocked to find out she COULD act and be funny) This is almost a really good romantic comedy. Really good. But it's not. It's just ok. It needs to be remade.
My new example is 'The Frighteners.' I rented it because I knew Peter Jackson directed it and I was feeling in a Michael J. Fox sort of mood. It's about a con man who can see ghosts and gets his ghost friends to haunt a place so he can pretend to exorcise it. And of course they run into something actually scary. Horror/Comedy. Except that once again, it's not funny. The plot is really good, but the not funny, and not quite scary leaves it pretty bland. This movie needs to be re-written by Joss Whedon. He can pull off that sort of mood in his sleep.
My classic example of this is 'Fools Rush In' a comedy with that guy from Friends and I think Selma Hayek (sp?). They have a one night stand, she gets pregnant, he tries to do the right thing and they get married and fall in love from there. It has some excellent jokes, and his timing is dead on. She had the comic timing of a...something not funny. (It wasn't till Dogma that I was shocked to find out she COULD act and be funny) This is almost a really good romantic comedy. Really good. But it's not. It's just ok. It needs to be remade.
My new example is 'The Frighteners.' I rented it because I knew Peter Jackson directed it and I was feeling in a Michael J. Fox sort of mood. It's about a con man who can see ghosts and gets his ghost friends to haunt a place so he can pretend to exorcise it. And of course they run into something actually scary. Horror/Comedy. Except that once again, it's not funny. The plot is really good, but the not funny, and not quite scary leaves it pretty bland. This movie needs to be re-written by Joss Whedon. He can pull off that sort of mood in his sleep.
