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Film School Rejects: Bad Idea Surrounding Bad Lieutenant?

mare · 2 years ago

This is such an old flick, and not even very good in its day...why are you reviewing it?!
J.L. Sosa · 2 years ago

This remake makes about as much sense as the forthcoming proposed remakes of "Straw Dogs" or "Cannibal Holocaust." All three of these films were shocking in their day, and are still hard to watch.

That's not to say that they're not good. They're just the kinds of movie one suffers through and appreciates, but doesn't "enjoy" per se. Unless one is a fucking psychopath.

Hollywood will have to either go really dark to try to upstage their previous incarnations, or Hollywood will wuss out and deliver tepid, politically correct reinterpretations. Either route will cheapen the memory of these films.