Psycho Reviews
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An average movie
Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago on 23 March 2011 06:22
When you watch this, the first question that pops in your mind is "Was this remake really necessary?". Of course not! But then this answer could be say about 99.9% of the remakes. After making this conclusion, my advise is just to let it go and "try" watching this picture. Honestly, it wasn't bad at all. Of course, Vince Vaughn is no Anthony Perkins but he does a decent job. The best actor was ultimately William H. Macy who gives a very good perfomance. The only real flaw was that you could figure out what was going with Norman Bates pretty easily. My wife never saw the original version and understood it after seeing Norman Bates only 5 minutes on the screen. A part from that, the movie is rather enjoyable and I may be in the minority but I consider it a rather interesting experiment. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Ultimately a bitch-slap towards Hitchcock and co..
Posted : 2 years, 8 months ago on 13 September 2010 06:38
For years I was always in denial of whether to watch this or not but only a few days ago, I had this random desperate urge to watch it. I was going into this film sort of knowing that it was going to be crap anyway but there were a few key moments where it was just awful and it did step over the line. I shall give you an example: the Norman Bates masturbation scene. What the f**k?! That is insulting to the original film and to call itself a 'remake' is beyond belief! Regrettably, this is more of a rip-off/spoof and awful duplicate of the 1960 version more than a remake and also most of the cast and crew involved in the film hadn't even seen the original version so that is just hopeless and stupid! Well, I'm gonna keep this short and just say what the film is about because it is exactly the same as the original: a woman runs off with $40,000 from her boss, ends up staying in a motel and gets killed in the shower by a mysterious person. Get it? So, as for the acting in the film that featured the likes of Vince Vaughn as Norman, Anne Heche as Marion, Julianne Moore as Lila, Viggo Mortensen as Sam and William H. Macy as Detective Arbogast. Vince Vaughn was just awful as Norman Bates! I mean, the man didn't even try to bring something different to Norman because not only was he obviously saying the same in the original seeing as the script is the same but because of that, he was trying to copy Anthony Perkins actions as Norman during the scenes as well as how he would speak and that was just epic fail! Must ask this: did Anne Heche even audition for the part of Marion or was she a random woman off the street? Well, I think I am more convinced by the latter because she hadn't even seen the original Hitchcock version nor read the book so goes to show what she knows about the original and the character she is playing. Viggo Mortensen was disappointing as Sam Loomis and Julianne Moore who can be both brilliant and awful in her films but I am afraid to say that she was the wrong choice for Lila Crane! Despite that Lila wasn't the one who was murdered in the shower, she is an iconic character too but I would say that perhaps a more attractive and more talented actress could play her; like someone better should have played Norman and Marion. Now onto the direction of the film: Gus Van Sant is a director that I did have good respect for; films such as Good Will Hunting and Milk but now after making the Psycho 'remake', that has all gone! I never thought a director who has been nominated for an Oscar would agree to make a film that is copying exactly off Psycho of all films and ultimately failing! I mean, he does show how awesome the original version is because of how awful the 'remake' was by doing exactly the same but nowhere near as good. He even uses the original DVD and plays it during filming of the remake so that makes it worse! I was pretty surprised about Danny Elfman being the composer of the film. Yeah, there's Bernard Hermann's original music of the film but Elfman did adapt it a tiny bit but that didn't even save the film. Well, I'm just gonna say that the script was awesome because it is awesome but I can't give the film any higher rating for that because there was no attempt to make any difference or to improve on it. I mean, the fact that this was filmed in colour didn't even save the film. I think perhaps the reason for making this was so the new generation especially young teenagers would be persuaded to watch the original version. Now, that is a really bad idea because there is nothing good about this film and there's nothing wrong with the original. It was like a slasher film and since when has Psycho original film and even the book for that matter ever been a slasher film?! This isn't a spoiler so I'm just going to say it: when the ending credits rolled it said 'In Memory Of Alfred Hitchcock' and I paused the film and stared at it! How dare Gus Van Sant say that when he has remade something that is more like a bitch-slap towards Hitchcock, the cast and the rest of the crew in the original film?! Overall, Psycho is an absolutely disgraceful disaster that can hardly call itself a remake let alone a film! If it shows us anything, it shows us that some films just aren't meant to be remade and it just shows how pointless some remakes really can be! The 'remake' is one of the worst films of all time but the original is one of the best films of all time which is a weird thing to admit despite both films feature the same characters, same shots and camera angles and music. Probably the first film that I would automatically call a 'lazyarse' film because there really is just no effort or even enjoyment for that matter! It was plain awful and just pointless from beginning to end. It should have earned all the Razzie glory because that's what its worth and rightly deserves! 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Gus Van Sant is the Psycho here!
Posted : 3 years, 9 months ago on 20 August 2009 08:29
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
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WASTE OF EVERYTHING
Posted : 4 years ago on 1 May 2009 03:41
This was a HUGE mistake by a good director. Who could have possibly thought this was a good idea? I hope someone got fired. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Psycho review
Posted : 5 years, 4 months ago on 10 January 2008 02:03
Vince Vaughn is not Anthony Perkins. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
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