| Posted by: PopTarts57 at July 8, 2002, 5:16 pm | | Topic: Reviews: Psycho Forum: JoBlo | | Let me put this out there first...the oiginal Psycho is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's full of great performances (especially by Tony Perkins as Norman Bates), and lots of mystery and suspense. Hitchcock is the man. I was surprised at how Van Sant kept the original script for his remake. This isn't 1960. At times, the lines were so outdated it was laughable. But it made you appreciate how ood Stephano's script really is. None of the performances to that great. Vaughn was only OK as Bates...he lacked the quiet, sorrowful nature that Perkins had. In the original you felt sorry for Norman. In the remake, you just thought about how annoying his laugh comes off. Anne Heche is worse, though. Her quick, overdone facial expressions were quite annoying and she looked like robot saying the lines. Viggo Mortenson was probably the worst choice on earth for Sam Loomis. John Gavin's Loomis was a likable straight-arrow. Mortenson's is somewhat sleezy and uncaring. And William H. Macy come off really annoying as the detective Arbogast. His stupid "If it don't gel it ain't Jello" line seemed so unnatural and while Marty Balsam's Arbogast was smart and likable, you just want Macy to get off the screen fast. You don't even feel sorry for him whn he dies. The whole "film in color" thing was annoying to. First of all, Hitchcock purposely shot PSYCHO in blak and white for symbloic reasons and to have shadows to induce greater mystery. Anyone who can't sit through a black and white film because it's black and white is just stupid. Plus...that dress Anne Heche was wearing?????? Good Lord, it looked like wallpaper! Overall,this was a brave attempt to remake PSYCHO, but a dumb. I;d watch it again if I needed a good laugh. |
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