Just watched
Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong original of
The Departed. Not only do I continue to fail to understand the point of remakes, but I especially don't understand why you'd remake a movie just to make it
worse.
Elsewhere in the Netflix rodeo:
Nacho Libre was briefly the worst movie I'd ever seen, with precisely one redeeming moment ("I hate all the orphans in the world!"). Then I saw
Ripley's Game.
Corpse Bride was just bizarre, and
The Breakup sucks too.
But on the plus side:
Saved! was much, much better than expected, and
Weekend is quite good too, in that nice Goddardian sort of way.
# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 11:27 PM
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