Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
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I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.
Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.
Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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