Complaint about Front Page content
09-23-04, 10:22 AM
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Complaint about Front Page content
I'm not sure if this is where I should whine, but on the front page, under "Just Announced DVDs," I just read that the new Manchurian Candidate is "a rare breed of remake that is actually better than the original film." I find that opinion so absurd that I had to say something abut it. The remake isn't bad, but the original is a genuine classic, one of the all-time great films. It really got on my nerves when I saw that.
Okay, that's it. Thanks for letting me gripe a little bit.
Okay, that's it. Thanks for letting me gripe a little bit.
09-23-04, 10:31 AM
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It's called an opinion.
09-23-04, 11:33 AM
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Sir Ebert on the topic:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...hurian30f.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...hurian30f.html
To compare Demme's version with Frankenheimer's is sort of irrelevant. That was then and this is now. Sinatra and Washington are both complete and self-contained and cannot be meaningfully compared. What we can say is that Demme has taken a story we thought we knew and, while making its outlines mostly recognizable, rotated it into another dimension of conspiracy. Are corporations really a threat to America's security? The rotten ones are. When you consider that the phony California electric crisis, with its great cost in lives and fortune, was an act of corporate terrorism, he has a point.
09-23-04, 01:48 PM
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I understand that it is an opinion. (Note that I called it an opinion in my original post.) And really, I don't have any problem with a person having or expressing that opinion. I just wanted to exercise my option to publicly and strongly disagree with it. I tried to seem less like a raving hothead by acknowledging the fact that I was just whining and griping for a minute.
I also do not mean to degrade the remake, which I liked. I was just so surprised to hear anyone say that it was better than the original.
It was like reading that the remake of Psycho was better than the original. A perfectly valid opinion, and anyone is welcome to it. However, it will rattle my nerves a little bit.
I also do not mean to degrade the remake, which I liked. I was just so surprised to hear anyone say that it was better than the original.
It was like reading that the remake of Psycho was better than the original. A perfectly valid opinion, and anyone is welcome to it. However, it will rattle my nerves a little bit.
