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Old 05-16-2012, 11:03 AM
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I'm a fan of repackaging rather than remakes. For instance, Cars and Here on Earth were both a repackaging of a 1950's movie (name escapes me), but were different enough that they had their own merit. Same idea with 10 Things I Hate About You being a repack of The Taming of the Shrew.

Baz Luherman really did a good job transforming R&J into something different, and had he changed the character names and altered the dialogue just a bit, it would have almost fallen into this same category. As it is, I don't know that another remake can stack up to this. Either they do a (yawn) classic take, or they're going to end up going so far out there to compete it will reach the point of ridiculum.
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