Angry Rant!
For the love of all that is good and decent in this world, someone please explain to me why they had to remake Mostly Martha, a nearly perfect film, into No Reservations (come on, title?) Wait, I know the answer to this - Americans are too lazy to read subtitles! Now for the reasons why this never should have been redone - Americans can't balance drama and comedy the way Europeans can. They also can't use common themes in a way that isn't a cliche, and they definitely can't make a point without slapping you in the face. And why isn't there any mention of the original film that NR was based on in synopses and press releases? Let's just take someone else's well executed ideas and pretend they're our own! Hooray for the USA!
Posted
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:51 AM
Let's rant!
This is exactly what I though when a heard about the remake! Why oh why remake a nice movie? To make it more americanized? I don't plan to see it because I already know that the original is way better than the remake it couldn't possibly bring something new to the storyline most remake are just to put a well known face to the casting to make a good promotion of the movie. Americans surely won't like a movies without a a hollywood star in it, would they? It's really sad to see that wall that the american industry keep building against european movies, can't they let thew moviesgoers decide for themselves if subtitles are that disturbing? ARrrgh!