Not even the likes of Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, or Nicolas Cage could salvage these Hollywood reboots of international hits
In Hollywood, it often seems that the sincerest form of flattery is to remake a foreign film. Domestic versions of international hits are a long-running thing in a town where familiarity assumes success, and risk-averse studios often fear original ideas. Here’s the thing, though: those remakes are tough to get right. They’re not necessarily translatable in terms of story, theme, milieu, and tone, let alone language. Consider that Americanized film about a big monster attacking a major city.
On the other hand, the usually reliable Richard Donner wasted the dream casting of Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason by turning the story into a tone-deaf, fairly racist, mostly laugh-free farce that doesn’t earn its would-be tearjerker moments. But we say mostly laugh-free for a reason. It’s admittedly hard not to laugh, even more than 40 years later, whenever the boy is referred to as Master Bates. 8.
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