Kristen Stewart?! Good grief, I missed that! She is one of the most God-awful actresses I have ever seen.

Talk about a flat affect!

I hear ya, but you have to go after different audiences right? I've read (and seen) version of Red Riding Hood where the Grandmother doesn't even get eaten and others where the neither the old lady or Red survive.

I honestly hadn't thought of that. You're probably right, some people prefer happy endings (no comment from the peanut gallery please). I've read some of the Grimm tales in their original form; they are really something.

I cast a bemused eye on gen x and y'ers who get so upset at remakes of films from their generation, yet tell me I'm full of it when I say I hate the remakes of older films....

:p

I never said that.:eek:

"Throws up everywhere"

That's true- I said it.

I mean, I don't think you're full of it for hating remakes of older films.

While I am fairly bewildered by the need to remake martyrs, I can't say I completely hate the idea. Martyrs was a great flick (a perfect example of putting your protagonist through hell), but if they are willing to keep from pulling punches I imagine that they could make something positive from this endeavor.

My thinking is while the ending of the original left me a bit confused (in a good way), but if the give it a positive ending, it could really be an Alfred Hitchcock way of doing it by creating a sense of "relief" (though the ideas behind that and a "less depressing" ending might not collide).

My fear is the thought that they will pull a lot of the punches that made the first movie fairly disturbing/interesting. In the scene where Lucie starts unloading with a shot gun, while extremely violent and unforgiving, also says a lot about her mental state. It also takes away the feeling of sympathy the opening tried to garner from you (something I don't see in a lot of films).

Now, it isn't really fair to just put the word "remake" with "suck". A lot of movies that are thought of as future classics are remakes, such as Scarface, The Departed, Ben-Hur, Cape Fear, and more.