Review - Death Race
DEATH RACE [R]
review by Padraic Maroney
A time-honored complaint about Hollywood is that everything old is new again and that Tinseltown has no new ideas left. When you consider the huge number of remakes being churned out, this would appear to be true.
But a decidedly huge rift has grown in the genre. First, there are the faithful remakes that follow the source material with only minor tweaks to make it relevant to a modern audience. The second group consists of those that are remakes in name only, retaining the most basic premise while nipping, tucking, tweaking and chopping everything else. Being that the movies being remade tend to be cult and semi-popular titles — and not exactly the AFI Top 100 to start — improving upon them should not be that hard. Yet for the most part, improving does not tend to happen all that much with the modern-day counterparts.
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Original post by Robert Newton
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