Originally Posted by
Bent Ramrod
I thought the remake of Planet of the Apes did a much better job of suspending disbelief than the original did. It wasn’t just the superior special effects and costuming; the acting was more believable too.
The same with True Grit. John Wayne did a good enough portrayal of John Wayne doing Rooster Cogburn, but when Jeff Bridges did Rooster Cogburn, you could almost smell him.
And that hard-boiled little girl in the remake was much more believable than the chirpy, cheery performance of the starlet (forget her name) in the first one.
But in general, movie remakes are so poor that I can’t even remember most of them. I didn’t see it, but when they announce that the reboot of Psycho was a megadud, I was not astonished.