| Posted by: NotKeyserSoze at January 21, 2003, 4:58 pm | | Topic: Reviews: Psycho Forum: JoBlo | | Now technically speaking, this is a good movie. Norman is a great character, the story is great, and all the camera shots are clever. The music's good, and the ending's great. But sadly this is a brand new meaning of the term "remake": scene for scene, shot for shot, same score, same lines copy of an outstanding original. Anthony Perkins charmed and chilled back in 1960 with Hitchcock's masterpiece... and here it is so plaguerised they might aswell have re-released the original. There's truly no point to this "same but with colour" repeat of before. The only additions are good signs of what Hollywood has come to: When Anne Heche's character (opening scene) is with her boyfriend, we hear a couple having sex next door. Didn't in 1960... didn't need to. And later on, when Norman is watching her through a peephole, he starts masturbating. Didn't do that in 1960... would the censors have allowed it, it still wouldn't have been needed. Excessive, pointless, and disgusting in a way completely unbefitting of the film. So although I saw this before the original (shame on me) I still regard it as a cheat of a movie. If it's good at all, if you enjoy any part of it, then you are enjoying what it has stolen from the original. This is an insult to film, like a cheating film student copying the tricks of the trade off the director sitting next to them. It is technically not even classifiable as a movie in it's own right. 0/10 |
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