I have to agree, I really looked forward to this movie and it was such a disappoinment. Think about how cool it would have been in they had this level of special effects knowledge when the original was made. But I always have to wonder about why any movie company wants to remake a classic that was already pretty much flawless. The bozo's that remade "The Time Machine" made that same stupid mistake. Why not remake old movies that sucked and try to make them better. Why take a perfect movie and attempt to make it better, the only thing you can hope for is to equal it, you aren't going to top it. And in my entire life I have only seen one remake that I thought was as good as the original and that was John Carpenter's "The Thing".
I have to believe that SCAREFACE holds the record if you exclude stand-up comedy routines. The phrase "F***kin Cock-a-roach" is used by Al Pacino more times than I could count. So many times that it became laughable, it ruined the serious nature of the movie for me, because we all just started laughing after hearing that phrase for about the 15th time. It was hard to pay attention to the rest of the movie. Maybe I will rent the DVD and count the number of times it is used, it has been a lot of years since I saw this movie.
I have to agree, I really looked forward to this movie and it was such a disappoinment. Think about how cool it would have been in they had this level of special effects knowledge when the original was made. But I always have to wonder about why any movie company wants to remake a classic that was already pretty much flawless. The bozo's that remade "The Time Machine" made that same stupid mistake. Why not remake old movies that sucked and try to make them better. Why take a perfect movie and attempt to make it better, the only thing you can hope for is to equal it, you aren't going to top it. And in my entire life I have only seen one remake that I thought was as good as the original and that was John Carpenter's "The Thing".
I have to believe that SCAREFACE holds the record if you exclude stand-up comedy routines. The phrase "F***kin Cock-a-roach" is used by Al Pacino more times than I could count. So many times that it became laughable, it ruined the serious nature of the movie for me, because we all just started laughing after hearing that phrase for about the 15th time. It was hard to pay attention to the rest of the movie. Maybe I will rent the DVD and count the number of times it is used, it has been a lot of years since I saw this movie.