Taking an excellent international film, and plopping directly into the Hollywood system to try and prop it up as some new, exciting thing, has been a long-derided practice of big movie studios for decades.
The butchering of classic, radical films like Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse, and Fritz Lang’s M are all examples of how Hollywood can ruin a good thing by getting their hands all over it.
While a remake can give a genre a lot of eyes (like The Ring did for J-Horror), it often fails to capture the magic of the original, more likely to turn someone off from the film entirely than sweep them up.
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