Why, why, why???!!!


I'm sorry Hollywood, do you feel compelled to remake (quite badly, if I may add) a fantastic, Academy Award foreign film because you thought no one would care to read subtitles? How lazy have you become? I don't care how many Nicole Kidmans and Julia Roberts you can afford in your payroll, but this movie should have never, ever been made. I love the Argentinean film for its wit and amazing mystery build up... yours is just a poorly made xerox copy.

You also have the audacity to remake another German gem (Das Experiment) under the pretension that Standford University students playing guards and prisoners would never even imagined how out of control the experiment would turn. Here's a spoiler, it's mayhem and the good guys win.

Every remake you shove up to our throats is a loss of my faith in your ability to entertain, as well as lost revenue. It may not mean much to you, but I wish you luck writing the losses off your books.

Ugh... disgusting.

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I watched this film and my sole impression was - what a waste of resources! I did not feel for the characters and actually wandered why was this film made at all.

Thanks to your thread I learned that this is a remake, which remade the original material so that it lost all sense apparently.

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I have seen both versions.
I loved the original, and the remake is better than what I expected.

I love Chiwetel Ejiofor... but the chemistry between Soledad Villamil and Ricardo Darín in the original was palpable... the remake... not so much.

I, for one, am glad a few people in Hollywood are making remakes...
at least it was watchable...and someone is not making another comic book movie..

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Why not? The original is still a great movie.

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