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Korean horror. The u.s one is bad like how the old boy remake is bad.
The original was a Pang Brothers film. Like. The audacity to think they could do better.
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old boy was pretty horrifically bad. I didn't even get past like 45 minuets
For me, it gotta be City of Angels, the American remake of Der Himmel ΓΌber Berlin.
The German version is art house, with the camera and soundscape designed to emulate the angel's experience, observing humanity. The camera can move anywhere, gliding in and observing people's most intimate moments. The soundscape is constant whispers of thoughts and wprries the people of Berlin carry with them in their daily lives. Everyone is lonely and isolated from the other despite living in a big city. The world is black and white. And then there is this one angel who, much like the little mermaid, becomes fascinated with humans and their ability to experience passion, see color and feel and taste and smell. He becomes more and more tempted by humanity, to live like them and just like the mermaid, the death nail is when he falls in love with a human and he accepts the mortal life to have a chance to be a part of humanity and to be with the one he loves.
The American version: etherally beautiful man-angel sees hot human-woman and gives up his wings to fuck.
Hot human-woman: 90s Meg Ryan. Say no more. I understand.
Etherally beautiful man-angel: Nicholas fucking Cage.
Bruh π€£
You know what, I don't even even think Nick Cage is ugly. He has his charm for sure. But he does not pull off ethereal beauty. And he shouldn't have to. The German angel was played by Bruno Ganz (same guy who played Hitler in Der Untergangπ€), who isn't exactly beautiful, but he has a warmth to him that feels comforting and that's the point of the angels in the German version.
But the American version constantly has other characters point out how otherworldly beautiful the angel is and Nick Cage, bless him, does his best to make the soft pretty boy look that Brad Pitt made in Meet Joe Black, but he just looks like a predator when he tries and it is so fucking funny.
Lord have mercy.
The American version lacks the introspection on past sins of a society that did horrible things and have to live with that guilt. The American version also fails to comment on the theme of the all consuming loneliness we humans are bound to feel because oral communication can only take us so far in terms of making ourselves understood to another. It is inherently lonely to be human.
There are many themes that are pretty cool to dig into in Der Himmel ΓΌber Berlin. I'll never watch it again, though, because I hate ASMR-type shit and everybody is ASMR-whispering in that film and it is nails on a chalkboard for me. It was near impossible for me to finish it, but it isn't a bad film and i like the overall idea even if the sounds of whispering people almost made me gag. Also, Nick Cave and Peter Falck have a few cameos. So there's that. π
The American version has a very, very, VERY awkward Nick Cage and Meg Ryan sex scene. Pick your poison π€£
There are some very notorious TV show remakes, too
I remember watching Cordon which is a Belgian TV series that aired in 2014 but there's also an American remake under another name containment, the only thing they have in common are that the character's names are exactly the same with differences being that their settings take place else where respective of their regions.
Battle Royale. The US remake was called something like the hunger games and wasnβt as goodβ¦
The Magnificent Seven is fine.
Seven Samurai, however, blows it out of the water.
I disagree.
I love both movies, and think that the american version can stand on its own.
Every Kurosawa film blows it's Western counterpart out of the water
Probably an unpopular opinion, but The Departed. They dumbed down Infernal Affairs for western audiences. The shot of the rat at the end wasn't clever and the entire movie was like an unnecessary terrible Disney remake of an original that didn't need remaking.
I watched Departed twice, not knowing it was a remake and I enjoyed it quite a bit. But after seeing Inferal Affairs I have to agree the Departed is a bit too "extra", and the original is way more rewatchable than the remake
Force Majeur with fucking Will Ferrell was certainly a choice
"The Upside" is really shitty US-remake of the beautiful film "The Intouchables"
"Les Intouchables" but yes, agreed. Why did they need to do that ?
Solaris, the new version is decent but it's a totally different movie and just can't do the original justice.
Second place for me is girl with the dragon tattoo. The original is just better.
Amazing, came here to basically say the same thing about these two. Thanks kind stranger!
Netflix Death Note movie if you consider the Japanese Live Action Death Note movies as the original, but technically the anime is the original.
Probably Old Boy for me. I didn't bother watching it though so.
Really, the original is pretty much perfect. Why would anyone try to make a remake of that is beyond me.
I donβt know if itβs the worst, but Speak No Evil (2022) has to be up there. Itβs a bleak Danish-Dutch horror movie about the dangers of being a people-pleaser and ignoring red flags out of politeness. The 2024 American remake turned it into a pretty typical Hollywood horror movie with a happy ending, which completely undermines the whole point of the original.
Iron Man. I watched Tetsuo, and... If you know, you know.
Point of No Return from LA Femme Nikita
Can't remake Luc Besson
Remember TAXI and the one they remake with Latifa and Fallon π
Absolutely not even remotely watchable (avoided that movie like my life depended on it)
Good advice
Breathless
The only answer here is all of them...
I never saw The Departed but it won Martin Scorsese his only oscar so it must be good. I've only seen the original Infernal Affairs and I quite enjoyed it.
Nah, Funny Games was an English language version of the Euro version.
That film is dark AF though.
Funny Games shouldn't really count because it's the same director with an actual budget to do what he wanted to do in the first place.
I didnβt realise that. But I agree.
I didn't know they remade that one. I watched the original for the first time a few months ago.
Excellent film, but yikes-a-rooni
It was also made by Haneke himself because he thought the message was important to give to Americans whom he perceive as loving violence.
Oh, that explains that one then.
Yeh :3
It also helps that he had the foresight to cast Naomi Watts. She is, to this day, one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood. I will always give a movie a chance if she's in it. She always delivers even if the movie is trash.