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Am I The Only One Violently Sick of J-Horror Remakes?

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Jackie Blue:
Considering how dire they do at the box office, no, I don't think you are.

I just know eventually someone is going to want to remake Cure and I will have to lost all faith in humanity if it is as bad as I know it would have to be.

The thing is, I honestly don't know who they're making these movies for.  As stated they do really bad at the box office, fans of the originals have no interest in them because they're generally so much worse (The Ring was actually watchable, to be fair), and most "horror fans" in America want to see Hostel 4 or Saw XVII or other torture porn - ironic since Audition was arguably the first "torture porn" film to really make an impact and yet it only featues roughly ten minutes of any kind of torture at all, and the film in general is so much deeper than that.  For Miike to have played a cameo in Hostel is just sickening and I hope they paid him a fuckton of scratch.

JohnnyBeGalt:

--- Quote from: schimmy on 24 Mar 2008, 05:53 ---It's like... it's like they want to make lots of money without working hard, isn't it?

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Yes. The best part is, you can apply their model to anything!

Think about it!

Take anything originally Asian (like the Great Wall of China)...

Now take out the Asian influence (the original circumstances under which it was built, the China part, etc.)...

And add good ol'-fashioned American attitude into the mix (turning the damn thing on its side and making it a bridge to the Moon...to a gangsta rap soundtrack)...

The result :

EASY MONEY! (Renting spacesuits and selling elevator rides to the Moon)

Border Reiver:

--- Quote from: schimmy on 24 Mar 2008, 05:53 ---It's like... it's like they want to make lots of money without working hard, isn't it?

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You say that like it is a bad thing.  People have been doing that since we discovered work - although back then we called it "Not having to leave the cave area to get enough food."

Joseph:
Zerodrone, or anyone else for that matter, is there a Miike film which would be a good place to start with his work?  He's made a damn bajillion of them, and a good portion seem fairly gory.  Is there an obvious first one to watch?

tomselleck69:
Just watch all three Dead or Alive movies and by the time you're done you'll have taken in all elements of all Miike films.

(real answer: Ichi the Killer and/or Audition)

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