[BookZombie]

On the face of it, it could be disappointing that there are so many remakes these days, as remakes are almost always poor. I think that the noticeable increase in remakes is down to Hollywood being much more receptive to the idea of adapting foreign language movies (Asia in particular).

This is a good thing when you think about it. It is exposing the people who are too closed minded/lazy to watch a subtitled movie to a wealth of culture.

I agree, and as an added bonus allot of people who watch and like a remake, will then check out the original movie to just to see where it comes from, so often a remake of a foreign movie can broaden someone's horizon.

The problem is when it is very obscure that something is a remake. I watched Kingdom Hospital and loved it. However did you know it is a remake of a Danish series named Riget? I for sure did not until one time I was visiting my mother I noticed horror on the TV and it was very familiar, then and with a bit of googeling I discovered that there existed a series named Riget who was the basis for Kingdom Hospital, and I live in Scandinavia.

I also got very confused when I was looking for a DVD of Touching Evil and what I got had allot of Englishmen running around. Turns out the Touching Evil which was aired in America is a remake of a English series by the same name.

I think they should be better at announcing that something is a remake so it will be easier to check out the original if one so desires. That being said it have been some remakes I have liked better than the original. For example I enjoyed the American the Grudge better than the Japanese, not that the American movie is better, but the story is less confusing and easier to follow, while the Japanese original jumps back and forth in time with the storyline and is all over the place and unless one is really used to Japanese movies (as in I enjoy it more now after having watched a fair number of Japanese movies and anime.) and are used to the Japanese way to tell stories then the American version have a more streamlined way to get the viewer through the storyline.