SlidePocket 707 Posted July 24, 2016 The mother of all remakes that should never have been remade, Gus Van Sant's version takes a huge dump on the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic by going among others: making everything shot-for-shot, wooden performances from an otherwise talented cast, Norman masturbating while watching Marion taking her clothes off and the epic miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates. Never brought up on this forum before so now, let's have it! Share this post Link to post
RyanSz 3140 Posted July 24, 2016 I actually liked Vaughn as Bates, because he's shown a few times over the years that he can do quality work as a menacing character, but the rest of the movie was a dud. It's weird with these shot-for-shot remakes that they tend to fail so hard as the makers of the movies think that by just following what was laid out before them, they will rake in the money, but there are intangibles like how the cast interact with one another that just can be recreated. Funny Games was another movie like this that had the added caveat of it being made by the original director/writer, yet it still got not as much of the love that the original did, though Michael Pitt and Naomi Watts gave amazing performances in it. Share this post Link to post
