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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8708685" data-attributes="member: 18">Not an acknowledged remake AFAIK. It's effectively a mash-up of The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver, but it doesn't seem to have anything to add to them beyond a slightly unintentionally funny Batman veneer (which, for my money, turns the whole film into sort of a joke on itself - if that was intentional that'd be great, but interviews show it definitely wasn't).Oh definitely. If you can pull it off in the "almost no-one notices" way, kudos, but here it was the exact opposite. Anyone who'd seen either of those movies would immediately make it as both heavily derivative and lesser. I'm sure there are cases to the contrary, where in fact the material was improved (I can almost think of one, tip of my brain, as it were), just not here.</blockquote>