Remakes: Not So Bad After All?
Whenever a remake is released at the cinema it is usually followed by loud whispers that it’s not as good as the original, or that it is preposterous to remake a movie, especially when it is so easy to see the original on DVD. There’s also a commonly held belief that remakes are proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas. But a lot of people dig the Coens’ “True Grit,” as well as the recent “Let Me In,” the remake of the spectacularly good Swedish horror movie, “Let the Right One In.” Maybe the remake isn’t an inherently bad idea after all.
