ARE YOU FU**ING KIDDING ME!?!?!?!?!?!

[DaisukeVulgar]

Hollywood likes to do remakes of films that aren't in the American language. To them, it's easier to remake a whole film in their native tongue than it is to switch on subtitles and read.

They did it to A Tale of Two Sisters (The Uninvited), Let The Right One In (Let Me In), Le Femme Nikita (Nikita, albeit a TV drama), and soon to be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and probably the other two as well.)

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

facebook movie(drops everything eerily)

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Vampires be trendy and financially lucrative right now, all aboard the band wagon.

Also, it was a good film...but American audiences aren't going to want subtitles.

If they were, we might get Japanese horror films shown in cinemas...instead of butchered remakes with Sarah Michelle Gellar in them.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Well, there's your answer. They made it in EUrope, and want to bring it to America, but have to "remake" it so its more accepted by the american movie goer public. this acutally happens... well, not often, but sometimes.

This. Exactly what they are doing with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I saw it on iTunes being released, and then later I saw on the some information about the film being cast. It made me do a double-take. One is the original Denmark release [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/], and the other is US [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/].

I feel really bad that not only does America need to remake our own classics, but we're so devoid of originality that we take it from other countries and repackage it as our own. For shame! (sad face)

Stuff like this makes me ashamed of Hollywood. Why can't our film industry either
A: Make original movies instead of constant remakes or
B: At least wait a few years after the movie's been out so nobody will be able to notice stuff like this. That way when the movie bombs, I can see people's complaints about how the original was better so I can watch the original!

 

[johnzaku]

Death at a Funeral is just a remake of a british movie of the same name that's roughly 2-3 years old.

It EVEN HAS SOME ACTORS FROM THE ORIGINAL

O_O How do you get away with that???

and then

 

[crudus]

I have never heard of either movie. Maybe one is a remake for the United States?

No, I can't explain it. But I have a question why do people insist on remaking things?

Free money?