I'm not a remake fan. In most instances, you're only doing a disservice to the original film when you take its core story, slap in new actors, and update it in some way that strips the original of brains, nuance, and subtlety. Take, for example, the unnecessarily loud and shiny remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic,
The Day The Earth Stood Still. The only good thing to come out of that awful Keanu Reeves vehicle is the fact that Twentieth Century Fox has released a gorgeous new special edition of the original film on two packed DVDs.
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