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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berandor" data-source="post: 1191468" data-attributes="member: 225">Reading... reading... fingers itching... trying not to be drawn in... failing. Where the original was better.Where the original was better. Whoa! Indeed, it was. Didn't know that.  Where the original... oh, forget it; both films were bad. I think this wasn't a complaint about general movie fare, but about Hollywood's urge to remake or sequelize successful movies when such a re-interpretation is not warranted.I don't care whether the TCM is any good or not. It is unnecessary, its story has been told. The movie doesn't add anything of value (except for Leatherface's [spoiler]missing nose[/spoiler].) With regards to box office numbers, a whole lot of movies made money that I wouldn't consider to be "good", not by a long stretch. They simply appealed to a big group of people who went to see the film once, and the more people it appealed to, the more money it made. Kill Bill mostly appeals to film afficionados and Tarantino fans, TCM appeals to teens, fans of the original, and movie-goers looking for a scare. So TCM appeals to a broader range of people, and will likely make more money. Does that mean it's better? No. Does that mean it's worse? Also, no.If Kill Bill made more money, however, then it would have successfully broken its boundaries and appealed to many more people simply because of its quality. Just like LotR, which drew hordes of people into seeing it, many of whom wouldn't normally consider watching "Fantasy". The same applies to your "proven" word-of-mouth. Most people I know, when I tell them "Kill Bill is a great movie if you know what's referenced, and TCM is an acceptable way to spend an afternoon, but nothing great." would go see TCM (when faced with only these two choices). Still, I made Kill Bill sound better.Some proof you got there.You're wrong here. I can actually make a more or less informed statement on the movie even though I haven't seen it.Based on reviews and capsules, I can tell I'm not interested in seeing the movie. I can also tell that by all accounts, only the production value is better than in the original, while the remake lacks certain punches and details that made TCM such a classic. That doesn't mean the remake is bad, just that by general consensus, it seems to be inferior to the original. And nHammer doesn't say anything else about the movie. He doesn't criticize the way it was shot, the violence, or anything specific that indeed you would have to see the movie for. He just says he isn't interested, and that it seems to be an inferior remake.And Last Samurai, by everything I have seen so far, has the potential to be great or really, really suck. Here's hoping. I don't want to bash you, KaiLord, but cool down a little. As soon as two posters are arguing about box office figures, you know it's serious <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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