• Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Remake movies that had good ideas and poor execution, or visa versa. Don’t bother remaking movies that are already good.

    I just watched Highlander a few weeks ago and I think this one qualifies as good idea, poor execution. The one scottish person on the cast played a spaniard, and it’s not just some scottish dude. Why didn’t they make the main character a frenchman?! He doesnt even use a scottish sword!

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      1 year ago

      I just watched Highlander a few weeks ago and I think this one qualifies as good idea, poor execution.

      Wash yer mouth out! It’s definitely a case of terrible idea, great execution - in fact, it’s such a terrible idea that there was literally nothing with which to build a sequel out of. Every other Highlander movie and the tv show was little more than an awkward retcon milking exercise and little more.

      Why didn’t they make the main character a frenchman?!

      A French main character? In a USian movie? I guess you forgot about that whole anti-French “Freedom Fries” charade.