Does anybody else get really annoyed when people misuse the term “remake”?
A friend of mine proclaimed the other day that ‘Dredd’ is the greatest remake ever. He deems the movie a remake of the Stallone flop that was ‘Judge Dredd’. I argued that that’s not the case, as they’re both just based on the same source material, so if that does constitute a remake, then ‘The Dark Knight’ must also be a remake of Tim Burtons ‘Batman’. He wasn’t having it…
I’ve also read how people can’t wait for the remake of ‘Carrie’ (starring Chloe Moretz, who was in the remake of ‘Let The Right One In’ ).
Thinking about it now, I don’t think I ever heard anybody call ‘Red Dragon’ a remake of ‘Manhunter’.
Anyhow, does this type of thing annoy anybody else? Or am I just too much of a nerd?
A friend of mine proclaimed the other day that ‘Dredd’ is the greatest remake ever. He deems the movie a remake of the Stallone flop that was ‘Judge Dredd’. I argued that that’s not the case, as they’re both just based on the same source material, so if that does constitute a remake, then ‘The Dark Knight’ must also be a remake of Tim Burtons ‘Batman’. He wasn’t having it…
I’ve also read how people can’t wait for the remake of ‘Carrie’ (starring Chloe Moretz, who was in the remake of ‘Let The Right One In’ ).
Thinking about it now, I don’t think I ever heard anybody call ‘Red Dragon’ a remake of ‘Manhunter’.
Anyhow, does this type of thing annoy anybody else? Or am I just too much of a nerd?