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Browndog
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I guess I am pretty hard on them-I can't recall ever having watched one. Did you have a particular one in mind?
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Yes I am. It is very hard to make a really good horror flick to begin with, so that means a remake is even more difficult. Usually, a good campy version of a great horror film is the best we can expect.
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I'm extra hard on horror movies period, especially ones made in the last twenty years or so. I cannot watch them because they are so bad. I do like tthe old Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi films though.
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No, that's an odd fetish to have!
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Ooops, wrong genre! ; ) Seriously though, a remake better than the original is a rarity, even more in horror films, I think.
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yes i am. remaking a movie is the ultimate laziness, so i am especially hard on any remake. if you can't make it as good as, or better than, the original, you shouldn't even bother. why sully the good name of the original with the trite hollywood mass produces now a days?
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Not really, a lot of them are nicely done, and anybody who expects an intellectual story line should realize that this isn't the forté, or intent, of generally most horror films. We come to see guts, get creeped out and disturbed, and if they can remake this properly, then fine. Doesn't mean all horror films have dumb stories, a few of them have very good ones, but I mean that's really no longer the main dish anymore. What bothers me is when they promise to explain something that we didn't understand from the original, but then they don't really, or when it's just milking and special effects. I like remakes because they can bring old classics and give them the modern time flare, which I think is totally fine, but it does take some work.
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