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Current Talk '07 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0336
« on: July 30, 2007, 04:00:51 PM »It's that inbetween limbo nether-region that bothers me, though maybe not quite as much as totally copying the original..... I want it to be one thing or the other.
Well, you know - no matter how a remake, reimagining, etc. takes shape, there are always people who won't be satisfied with the way it's done. People complain they don't want to see the same material covered and that they want a new story with new twists and turns - but when things are changed, people complain things are not the same as the original. It's just a no-win situation. :-
I've mentioned this before, but I think the best bit of advice was contained in an article about the reimagined version of The Night Stalker:
something that I wholeheartedly agree with as a general principle is the sentiment expressed in the first two paragraphs of the Creature Corner review:
"Sacrilege!" That's the usual cry when a genre classic ends up on the conveyor belt to remakesville, and all too often we spend way too much time bemoaning the ways in which the new version deviates from what we know and love, and too little time considering whether the new material stands up in its own right.
In other words, sometimes a remake isn't always a bad thing. They can honour the original and stand alone as solid entertainment at the same time.