Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Re: movie remakes

From: William Ahearn ( williamahearn@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Feb 2008


--- vagrantpacific < pacificvagrant@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Did DePalma make anything that needed to be made?
> >
> -- That needed to be made? What does this mean? Are
> you trying to
> build a cannon of cinema? Or are you trying to say
> that thrillers
> "need" to serve some sort of function other than
> their thrills?
> Thrillers in both fiction and cinema serve deep,
> deep needs, which is
> probably why they're so popular.

I'm saying that in my opinion DePalma's derivative, semi-solid homages, generally suck as movies. It's that simple.

William

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