SCREW THIS!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Very nice way of putting it mathuemarchetti. The only reasons this film is good are the beautiful and fantastical colors reminiscent of Snow White, the brilliant music and the eerie plot (plus the murder scenes, especially the scene with the dog). I appreciate the classic films, and when I hear someone say how stupid and boring the 'old one' was I want to shoot them with a bazooka!!! For example, I heard 2 people talking about going to see the new Halloween movie and commented on how it looked stupid compared to the awesome original, and one of the people said the old one was gay. Very sad.

It will be the same with Suspiria.

You're all a bunch of sticks in the mud. You've already sold it as bad in your heads. Give it a chance to fail before you condemn it. You might be surprised.

Producers always have been about money, Einstein. That doesn't mean they want to put out bad movies. Almost all bad remakes have only been bad because the source material was so crap...

That said, you should be more concerned with who they get to write and direct, and the writer they have for Suspiria is actually quite good.

I haven't found anything David Gordon Green has done to be "brilliant" and his most recent "Pineapple Express" was a god awful mess in my opinion. I fail to see any potential arising from his involvement.

The Fugitive, The Fly, some consider the 80s Invasion of the Body Snatchers to be better than the original, and there are several more listed in one of the previous posts so the list goes on. I am personally on the fence, on the one hand I can see why Suspiria is so highly regarded, on the otherhand I personally found that there were a few major problems with the film which kept it out of the masterpiece catagory.

The fact of the matter is though that although it seems like at least three or four different remakes come out every year - and none of them quite up to par with the originals - remakes are not unpresidented, and in the horror genre, they are actually quite common. Of course they don't always work, both Psycho and The Hitcher were remade and the remakes of those paled in comparison to the original. But in the case of Suspiria, assuming they find a director that knows what he's doing, I think it could be worth a try. Worst case scenerio, the remake is a complete trainwreck and it joins the ranks of the many horror remakes that are largely forgotten and never forgiven.

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