Comments on: The road less traveled

By: Matt Gamble

Matt Gamble — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:21:29 +0000

Haneke is a huge Hitchcock fan so it really shouldn’t be surprising that he is doing a remake of one of his own films, as Hitchcock did with The Man Who Knew Too Much. And you would think people would recognize that he is doing a shot-for-shot remake because he knows the first film was great, he simply wants to lecture American audiences. I’m not sure if their is a better movie to watch with a packed house then Funny Games, yet it will probably never happen.

And the hits keep on coming for Doomsday:

“Neil Marshall cobbles together his third feature, in the manner of a junk-food glutton topping a pizza with French onion dip, ice cream, and four bags of Cool Ranch Doritos.”

And that is somehow a negative review. Sounds awesome to me.

By: Fatter than Joey

Fatter than Joey — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:19:46 +0000

Mortal Kombat was not genius???

By: Colleeny

Colleeny — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:16:02 +0000

I am so looking forward to Funny Games. I saw the original a couple of months back, and have since then spent to much time hunting down some more Haneke films. The one thing I don’t get is all the hate that is being directed at this remake. Why does it matter if Haneke does a shot by shot remake. Those cineaphiles that saw the original movie aren’t the target market are they. Funny Games remade for the English mainstream market will mostly get new people that wouldn’t normally go out of their way to see a foreign language film. I personally am eager to see just how close of a shot by shot remake Haneke films. It could evolve into a drinking game. One shot for every inconsistancy.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:37:21 +0000

Touche. But a comparison to Paul W.S. Anderson is always frightening.

If anything though, I have faith in Bob Hoskins.

By: Matt Gamble

Matt Gamble — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:15:37 +0000

I have complete and total faith in Neil Marshall. Critics are idiots.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:13:56 +0000

Yikes, Doomsday is getting panned so far. A couple of quotes:

“Doomsday is a mess of lousy filmmaking and unrelenting artistic bankruptcy, smashed together to form an ear-splitting, overcooked, awfully irritating shell of an experience.”

“Has Neil Marshall been studying under Paul W.S. Anderson?”

Harsh. I’ll have to see for myself, I reckon.