[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

They should have just called it Castlevania.

That said, I am tired of remakes, so I don't want remakes of Creature from the Black Lagoon or anything of the sort. Plus, they would just CGI the Gill Man.

As for The Thing, actually, it wasn't a remake, it was another adaptation to "Who Goes There?', and was closer to the story.

Speaking of which, I am getting to see BOTH Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D and The Thing in the theaters on Sat and Wed.

I also agree that Silence of the Lambs is not a true horror movie, but then again, Alien is a horror movie under the guise of a Science Fiction, so...

Like I said, Carpenter's The Thing is almost like a sequel to the original since it uses some footage from the original as recordings found. I've never read Who Goes There? but I've found it very difficult to find a copy and at this point no longer care because that movie is my jam. If they got a professional swimmer and used proper Andy Serkis level mocap I could see a remake of CftBL. I'd prefer actual costume and practical effects, but touching it up with CGI for different underwater scenes. I find that the problem with so many remakes is that they choose films that already delivered the story as great as it needs to be the only thing they actually bring to it is better effects, but somehow completely botch retelling the story and characters. The remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Robocop technically have better effects, but found unique ways to rape and butcher the stories and characters of iconic and beloved films. Technically movies like CftBL didn't have a great amount of character or very hard-thinking story, they're simple and I love them for it, but it would likely be better to remake CftBL than it was that they made Nightmare and Robocop. I know this opinion won't be shared and will be hated by a good amount, but to me remaking a movie from 60 years ago that has potential to benefit from modern writing is a better idea than one from 30 years ago that still stands tough and honestly better than most films pushed out today.

Also what's up with remaking foreign movies like only years after the initial film? The Departed did it with Infernal Affairs and that one actually worked quite well, but Let the Right One In got remade into Let Me In with only a few years in between and the American version stank. [Rec] was made into Quarantine almost within a year, surprise the American version sucked. Oldboy was remade and even Josh Brolin couldn't save it from being another stale remake. Apparently Americans really don't want to read. Subtitles?! Fuck that, remake it! Some of these remakes aren't necessarily awful, but they're very lazy and don't even attempt to set themselves apart from the original. Maybe that's why The Departed worked, because they put effort into making it their own distinct telling of the story, probably because Scorsese knows how to direct and they got a great cast.