Comments on: 'Rosemary's Baby' Remake, is It a Good Idea? http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/rosemarys_baby_remake_is_it_a_good_idea The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:44:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: SaraMichelle http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/rosemarys_baby_remake_is_it_a_good_idea#comment-1421 SaraMichelle Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:41:31 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8881#comment-1421 I can't help but completely disagree. I think Platinum Dunes has done a horrid job on the remake front, The Amityville Horror and The Hitcher being particularly awful. (As for that Texas Chainsaw prequel, the less said about that one the better.) The idea of this hack studio remaking one of the crown jewels of cinematic horror (more suspense/thriller than actual horror, if you ask me) just about turns my stomach. Polanski's stunner is a true tour de force full of inventively emotional ledgermain and brutally misogynistic subtext. It is about society in turmoil, disolving right before our very eyes, all of it leading to a terrifically frightening finale that unnerves me every time I see it. Needless to say, this is a sickening thought, and like remakes of Sabrina or Charade or Casablanca (all of which have had official remakes) this one is just about as pointless as any I've ever heard rumored. This is a bad idea. I can't help but completely disagree. I think Platinum Dunes has done a horrid job on the remake front, The Amityville Horror and The Hitcher being particularly awful. (As for that Texas Chainsaw prequel, the less said about that one the better.)

The idea of this hack studio remaking one of the crown jewels of cinematic horror (more suspense/thriller than actual horror, if you ask me) just about turns my stomach. Polanski's stunner is a true tour de force full of inventively emotional ledgermain and brutally misogynistic subtext. It is about society in turmoil, disolving right before our very eyes, all of it leading to a terrifically frightening finale that unnerves me every time I see it.

Needless to say, this is a sickening thought, and like remakes of Sabrina or Charade or Casablanca (all of which have had official remakes) this one is just about as pointless as any I've ever heard rumored. This is a bad idea.

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