What's the Last Movie You Watched?

[Palooza]

Moneyball - Don't really care for baseball, but I LOVED this/10

 

[NAHSTE]

Moneyball - Don't really care for baseball, but I LOVED this/10

I find it interesting that everyone I know who saw this and doesn't really care for baseball has loved it. I liked it too but I'm surprised at how much women and non-baseball liking men have enjoyed it.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Re-watched Bridesmaids last night. Still the best comedy of 2011. Haters can suck it.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Does anyone else have a hard time gauging the quality of a remake film? I can't help but constantly draw direct comparisons to the original the entire time and it really makes it hard for me to tell how much I enjoyed it for some reason. This has been the case for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Let Me In, and Quarantine.

 

[padman59]

Does anyone else have a hard time gauging the quality of a remake film? I can't help but constantly draw direct comparisons to the original the entire time and it really makes it hard for me to tell how much I enjoyed it for some reason. This has been the case for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Let Me In, and Quarantine.

Sometimes. If it's a shot-for-shot remake, it won't really sit well with me, and I find it hard to judge those on a deeper level if I've seen the original.

Remakes like The Departed and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that have changed enough to the story, shots, or atmosphere to make it feel like a different movie are easier to digest and judge on their own.

 

[EmpireWF]

Heaven Help Us -- an 80s comedy/drama about a group of rebellious high school kids in a 1960s catholic school. A young Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon are great...a fun flick.

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

I find it interesting that everyone I know who saw this and doesn't really care for baseball has loved it. I liked it too but I'm surprised at how much women and non-baseball liking men have enjoyed it.

yeah I don't like baseball, but I've been dying to watch it ever since I saw the trailer

Re-watched Bridesmaids last night. Still the best comedy of 2011. Haters can suck it.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

Heaven Help Us -- an 80s comedy/drama about a group of rebellious high school kids in a 1960s catholic school. A young Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon are great...a fun flick.

one of my favorite movies

 

[Palooza]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is NOT a remake. It is a re-interpretation of the novel. The writer of the film, Steve Zallian has never seen the Swedish films.

 

[padman59]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is NOT a remake. It is a re-interpretation of the novel. The writer of the film, Steve Zallian has never seen the Swedish films.

It depends on how you define a remake. They didn't set out to copy or alter the first film, but they did make another film adaptation from the novel (which I consider a remake since another adaptation already exists).

 

[Houston]

It depends on how you define a remake. They didn't set out to copy or alter the first film, but they did make another film adaptation from the novel (which I consider a remake since another adaptation already exists).

Do you also consider X-Men: First Class and Batman Begins as remakes?

 

[wingsfan77]

FINALLY got around to watching 'Crazy,Stupid,Love' today....well worth the $10 the blu-ray cost me.

 

[Palooza]

It depends on how you define a remake. They didn't set out to copy or alter the first film, but they did make another film adaptation from the novel (which I consider a remake since another adaptation already exists).

a remake implies you are taking a previously made film
and putting your own twist/update/etc on it. TGWTDT does not fit that category. it, like houston said with BB and FC, is a re-interpretation of source material.

How can something be a remake of another film if the person who wrote the "remake" not have seen the "original"

 

[padman59]

Do you also consider X-Men: First Class and Batman Begins as remakes?

No to both. While there have been previous movies about both Batman and the X-Men, both BB and FC are entirely focused on the origin of each which were only briefly addressed in the previous films. That alone seems to suggest that there are differing source materials used in the development process. I thought FC was a prequel to the 2000 movie anyway.

a remake implies you are taking a previously made film
and putting your own twist/update/etc on it. TGWTDT does not fit that category. it, like houston said with BB and FC, is a re-interpretation of source material.

How can something be a remake of another film if the person who wrote the "remake" not have seen the "original"

I can see your point, but they are adaptations of the exact same source. In my mind, any subsequent movie adapted from Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy has to be remake since a film trilogy has already been made.

I'll add this. A remake is a re-imagining to a degree, but a re-imagining does not have to be a remake.

 

[Palooza]

in your mind, you're wrong. two adaptations lf the same source mAterial does not make one a remake of the other. it is simply a re-interpretation or re-imagining of the original source material. not a remake of the other movie.

 

[padman59]

in your mind, you're wrong. two adaptations lf the same source mAterial does not make one a remake of the other. it is simply a re-interpretation or re-imagining of the original source material. not a remake of the other movie.

Then we simply disagree on our characterizations of a remake.

 

[Twigg4075]

I've been neglecting my movie collection but being sick tends to fight that a bit.

I finally got around to watching

Great action movie. 9/10. Just crazy shit from beginning to end.

I also watched

Not as funny as I expected. 6/10. Jenna Fischer is so hot though.

 

[wingsfan77]

I've been neglecting my movie collection but being sick tends to fight that a bit.

I finally got around to watching

Great action movie. 9/10. Just crazy shit from beginning to end.

I also watched

Not as funny as I expected. 6/10. Jenna Fischer is so hot though.

I think you might've forgotten something there haha

 

[Raidersabc123]

Just seen the Devil Inside it was ok but had quite possibly the worst ending ever

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

In the case of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Let Me In I realize that they aren't technically remakes or re-imaginings of a previous film. They differ even less than most of remakes it seems, it's pretty much the same as 2 different directors each making their own version of the same screenplay. All of the major plot points, setting, characters are exactly the same since they're telling the exact same story.

That being said I thought the cinematography and editing was a bit better in the Fincher version. It's just hard to give it credit in my eyes as a really great movie for doing something that I have already seen almost exactly.