lmao how tf are they gonna remake Toni Erdmann hahah

See Catrician, this is what you don't seem to understand... if a film isn't made entirely in English, it isn't truly a film. The argument can be made that it is still a film, but surely, you can agree that it is at least lesser art. As English speaking Caucasians are the world's most important population, our films should reflect our sensibilities. We can have an occasional black movie here and there so that we can pretend we care about history, but when it comes down to it, if a film isn't in English and doesn't have stars we instantly recognize... then why see it? Toni Erdmann is a good example of a remake going to be done right; it has Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig. BIG STARS. Not Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek. What is the point of watching a film if we can't even pronoucne the names of its "stars". Americanizing the story makes way more sense as why would anyone want to see a story not set in America, unless of course it is about a historical event like The Great Wall.

American remakes of foreign films are almost never a good idea.

I don't do subtlety when I am sick at home.

Real talk, how often are remakes in general a good idea?

When technological advancement or bigger level of resource are relevant to the storytelling, it was a really good idea to make those Peter Jackson Lords of the Rings even thought we had those Russian TV movies type of the lords of the rings, or Cameron Titanic versus the previous Titanic movies, War of the Worlds, or most of the recent Disney remake or their classic tend to be successful good idea. MadMax fury road was a bit of that too, Death Race could have been a good idea for a remake, the first one being so limited.


With a context change (like The departed, The Ring, Let Me In) open the movie to a new audience that have not seen the original anyway and would have never watched it.

When society change, and that story retold could be interesting with a today context twist, it did work really well with many classic play/romans remade in movies, Clueless, Lion King, etc.. I cannot imagine why it would not in the future work well with old movie, instead of old plays/books.

I would be inclined to agree with the first chunk of that statement. I would say animation remade into live-action is something that is fine with me (The Lord of the Rings for example) or change of median (TV movies to films), or say when a film is based on a classic story with multiple different ways to tell the same story. Honestly, while I would say Cameron's Titanic has great scope and production design, more so than any other Titanic film, it is nowhere near as good of a film as A Night to Remember. That said, I also prefer Ringu over The Ring, and I have almost no interest in seeing how America butchers Let the Right One In.