Taeylor - You didn't offend me. I was kinda joking with you. I sorry if it didn't come across that way.
Part of my problem with this "remake" is that I truely believe the original story is one of the best stories ever put on film. That makes it very hard to do anything that comes close to the original in my mind. To me, thinking of someone playing Barnabas other than Frid, is like the idea that someone could play Karloff or Lugosi. The only thing you could ever get is second best. That said I know that Frid can't play the part. I also know that Martin Landau was almost better at playing Lugosi than Lugosi would have been. I believe with all my heart that with this team, if we don't get one of the greatest films ever made that something really, really bad happened somewhere. This movie should be the closest that we ever get to the perfect film.
I just don't think we should lower our expections. And I know that you weren't.