Watched the American remake of "The Guilty" a really solid Danish film from a few years ago, and they made it a nearly exact remake...except adding in a ridiculously random sideplot regarding his ex wife as well as adding a random female character who had something like 5 lines, including this bizarre line at the end that made absolutely no sense in the context of the film.
They also made the female character not as shitty in the remake....overall it was like someone at Netflix said "hey this is a great movie to remake, but it needs more women. Just jam a few in, and make sure the main female character doesn't look quite as bad."
I'll keep that in mind. Speaking of which, that's another thing that needs to go: American remakes of recently-made foreign movies. Christ, it's bad enough Hollywood is so stripped of idea that all it can do is remake its old stuff, but it has to go and take other countries' fresh ideas as well.
Watched the American remake of "The Guilty" a really solid Danish film from a few years ago, and they made it a nearly exact remake...except adding in a ridiculously random sideplot regarding his ex wife as well as adding a random female character who had something like 5 lines, including this bizarre line at the end that made absolutely no sense in the context of the film.
They also made the female character not as shitty in the remake....overall it was like someone at Netflix said "hey this is a great movie to remake, but it needs more women. Just jam a few in, and make sure the main female character doesn't look quite as bad."
Made the entire film worse for NO REASON.
Basically: see the original, it is awesome.
I'll keep that in mind. Speaking of which, that's another thing that needs to go: American remakes of recently-made foreign movies. Christ, it's bad enough Hollywood is so stripped of idea that all it can do is remake its old stuff, but it has to go and take other countries' fresh ideas as well.