REEL REVIEWS COLUMN: Remade time and again
By Nick Tintori and Micah Riordan
IV Leader Movie Critics
This is the high time of remakes and an extremely low period of creative thinking. The latest addition to this ever-growing collection is H.G. Well’s “Time Machine.”
The other more recent remakes are “Planet of the Apes,” “Rollerball,” “13 Ghosts,” and “Crossroads.” All these major blockbusters are redone and updated to fit the current trend and appeal of the world. The current trend sucks as do these movies.
Like the afore mentioned movies, the original “Time Machine,” is a great moivie, and doesn’t need to be updated; it’s a classic. If this current trend continues as it is we will no longer need classics. The worst thing that will come from this trend, if it is not killed soon, will be the remakes of movies that we are watching now or grew up on.
Who really wants to see a remake of a great movie like “Ghostbusters?”
That is exactly what the people who are upset about such remakes are asking.
When we went to see this remake we did not go for the movie but the special effects which is all the movie has going for it.
All the basic elements from the first movie are there except for the “girlfriend and trying to change the past” angle. The original provides a better reason for the time machine being built. Guy Pierce, notably known from “Momento,” stars as the time traveler. Except Jeremy Irons, the leader of the Morlocks and who typically plays the villan in movies, there aren’t any other notable actors.
The movie turned out to be a very good movie; we would not mind seeing again. We went to see the spectacular special effects. We left liking the plot and idea of the film. The movie was completely different from its original; it wasn’t a remake but a different perspective on the book.
We still feel the movie makers of the world need to get off their high chairs and start writing some original stuff, not just updating or changing the classics.
FINAL RATING: B