Special effects or a great storyline ?
Do you ever ask yourself what makes a great movie? For me it is the storyline. Ok bad effects can spoil a movie but it can't ruin the plot. So many of the youth of today have probably never watched any of the great classic sci-fi movies of the 50s and 60s. Movies like the Incredible Shrinking Man were terryfying to me as a kid, and it certainly wasn't because of the effects. The problem is people today wouldn't go out of their way to watch this kind of film because they already know the effects will be poor. Take Hitchcock movies for example, you never got to see any of the violence that was implied, it was the directing, acting and compelling story which kept you gripped to your seat. These days you go to see a movie and leave saying things like "the special effects were great". So bloody what? You get great movies with great special effects and crap movies with great special effects, the recent remake of War Of The Worlds being a classic example of this. The story was ruined in my opinion. I remember the 1953 version well and to me there was no need to change the story so much. Ok, so some will argue that this is not a remake, just another adaption of the 1898 book. But to me, if this is the case, why set it in the USA. Isn't Horsell Common good enough anymore? Why introduce nuerotic kids into the story. Its true this film is about survival and not about destroying the aliens but this new movie gets quite tedious for me in the middle. Some films are truly classics and remakes or new adaptions are not necessary, but they are still interesting to watch. I won't watch the 2005 version again but it was worth the visit to the ciname. I just wonder if any producers out there have got the bottle to do a remake of Gone With The Wind or Dr. Zhivago ? Are there films that were so good they should never be remade ? I think so. Maybe the reason they won't be remade is because the only excuse at the moment to remake an old classic is to jazz it up with special effects and there is no point in doing this to any film thats non sci-fi. I think if Spielberg had stuck to the story instead of Americanising it I might have been a bit more tolerent.
posted by Chris @ 4:32 PM
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