Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
1. The Birds / Rosemary's Baby
The originals: 1963; 1968
The remakes: TBA
Is Michael Bay crazy? There’s some risk producing updates of The Amityville Horror, Friday the 13th and The Hitcher. But trying to outdo Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski are exercises in futility. Exhibit A: Gus Van Sant’s Psycho. So Bay and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell have an uphill battle with The Birds. Hitchcock’s chiller may seem tame compared to today’s torture-porn bloodbaths, but it’s still scarier than such eco-thrillers as The Happening. Hopefully, Campbell will place an emphasis on suspense rather than gore. After Funny Games, King Kong and The Ring, though, shouldn’t scream queen Naomi Watts ease up on the remakes? Bay certainly isn’t. He’s ready to put a fresh pair of diapers on Rosemary's Baby. Polanski’s horror yarn was all the more frightening because it messed around with our gravest fears and anxieties about impending parenthood. Will Bay do the right thing and enlist a director of Polanski’s statute and sensibilities? Please. He’ll probably hire some snot-nosed first-timer whose only claim to fame is directing Mariah Carey music videos. It’s enough to make Rosemary’s baby cry for daddy.
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