And so it is that yet again American producers and writers can not think for themselves as yet another remake goes wrong.
I liked the original Pang Bro's version. They do some good films. I had no faith that this remake would do the source material justice in any way and it didn't. I don't quite understand how all the Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Thai remakes miss the mark. Maybe it's the $$ signs that the American rip off artists see and care about most.
The Eye manages to keep the basics from the original film but looses the tension and atmosphere. It's such a disappointment. Just a bit more work by the writers and they might just have managed to translate to American audiences what the Pang Bro's original film did. Even having 2 directors on this film could not recreate the freshness of the original. What we end up with is another run of the mill, quick scary images and quick scary noises, horror remake. The characters are flat are you really don't care for them. The story is not as involving as it should be and really isn't the best . The realisations near the end of the film in the original which catch your attention and make you think are completely lost in this remake as you really don't care and haven't been given enough reason to care about the main characters.
There's no point in commenting on the actors or such as the generalisation now for these remakes is that Hollywood and the big shots care only for money and have not got the foggiest idea of how to be original or to take a concept and pay homage to it's source material and ideas. It's a shame the lamen out there don't culturalise themselves with world cinema - if they did, we wouldn't suffer crappy remakes. Shame people are too lazy to read subtitles.
I liked the original Pang Bro's version. They do some good films. I had no faith that this remake would do the source material justice in any way and it didn't. I don't quite understand how all the Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Thai remakes miss the mark. Maybe it's the $$ signs that the American rip off artists see and care about most.
The Eye manages to keep the basics from the original film but looses the tension and atmosphere. It's such a disappointment. Just a bit more work by the writers and they might just have managed to translate to American audiences what the Pang Bro's original film did. Even having 2 directors on this film could not recreate the freshness of the original. What we end up with is another run of the mill, quick scary images and quick scary noises, horror remake. The characters are flat are you really don't care for them. The story is not as involving as it should be and really isn't the best . The realisations near the end of the film in the original which catch your attention and make you think are completely lost in this remake as you really don't care and haven't been given enough reason to care about the main characters.
There's no point in commenting on the actors or such as the generalisation now for these remakes is that Hollywood and the big shots care only for money and have not got the foggiest idea of how to be original or to take a concept and pay homage to it's source material and ideas. It's a shame the lamen out there don't culturalise themselves with world cinema - if they did, we wouldn't suffer crappy remakes. Shame people are too lazy to read subtitles.