Asian => American remakes

kawaii

Many classic (if they're old enough to be called that.. to me they're classics) asian movies are suffering american remakes. Examples: Infernal Affairs, My Sassy Girl, Oldboy...

Anyone else think that this is a crime against cinema? A lot of these movies were heavily supported by a foundation on asian culture. It was this that gave them a lot of depth and meaning. I just don't think that this can be captured in an American film (esp by the like of Leo DiCaprio). These films were perfect as they were. I don't see the need to remake them.

It's like making a remake of Gone With the Wind. You just don't.

Sigh... Well there's my rant..

Pigman II

No I don't think it's a crime. I mean no kidding here but from an artistic pov I reckon *at least* 95% of what comes out of Hollywood has absolutely NO merit of any kind nor does it contribute in any positive way to mankind so I'd start being concerned about that before I start picking on the just remakes in particular.

I guess the thing to do is just don't talk about these remakes, don't attend a screening of any of them and just try your best to pretend they don't exist.

Necronomicon

I often find myself on both sides of the arguement. I can see why people would see it as sacrilege when their favourite films get green-lighted for remakes.
I'm not against the idea of a remake, I always wait and find out a little information before I decide whether I'm disgusted or intrigued by it. (For example, feeling disgusted that the Oldboy remake was going to be helmed by the director of The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift, while being intrigued that Martin Scorsese has remade Infernal Affairs with an impressive cast).

I do have to say though, there have been too many Asian horror remakes in recent times. They have been churned out as if they were on an assembly line.

kawaii

Impressive cast... DiCaprio as Yan?

/pukes out gall bladder

BlitzKrieg

the trailer for the departed is up on apple.com

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thedeparted/hd/


looks pretty cool...alot of it looks identical to the original, though jack nicholsan looks like he's having alot of fun.

Kingp35

BlitzKrieg wrote:

the trailer for the departed is up on apple.com

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thedeparted/hd/


looks pretty cool...alot of looks identical to the original, though jack nicholsan looks like he's having alot of fun.

Looks very good and that is quite an impressive cast!

Cunning Alias

I wanted to hate this but it looks ok and thats a great cast. Hope to god they dont change the ending.

Tchocky

They're remaking Bangkok Dangerous :~(

Running Bing

Its martin scorcesse ffs. The man can remake citizen kane and he gets away with it. Hes done enough for cinema(mean streets,taxi driver,raging bull, king of comedy, last temptation of christ, goodfellas).

cyrus the virus

kawaii wrote:

Many classic (if they're old enough to be called that.. to me they're classics) asian movies are suffering american remakes. Examples: Infernal Affairs, My Sassy Girl, Oldboy...

Anyone else think that this is a crime against cinema? A lot of these movies were heavily supported by a foundation on asian culture. It was this that gave them a lot of depth and meaning. I just don't think that this can be captured in an American film (esp by the like of Leo DiCaprio). These films were perfect as they were. I don't see the need to remake them.

It's like making a remake of Gone With the Wind. You just don't.

Sigh... Well there's my rant..

Right behind ya.

Bey Logans right, why not remake crap movies and try to improve them?