It occurred to me at the time, too, but I failed to note it here. To my shame.
So now I’m noting it here (to my credit): That attempt on Chirac’s life? Very Day of the Jackal.
(Note: Sadly, I’ve never read the Forsyth book. But the film is an absolute classic in the genre of political thrillers. If you haven’t yet seen it, get your ass to a video store. Now. Go on, scat.
…because now it’s you who should feel ashamed…)
When you recommend the film, you mean the original, right? If not, then shame on you!
I never bothered to see the remake. Likewise, I never bothered to catch the remake of Rollerball, for the same reason. What’s the point of doing a remake, you think you can improve on the original?
Yeah, right. It would be like Oliver Stone trying to remake Citizen Kane. If he even mentions it, he should die.
Incidentally, the Forsyth book is geat. Chock full of detail (in case you wanted to try a career as an international assassin) and has the same edge-of-your-seat tension the film captured. Come on, you know damn well DeGaulle isn’t going to be assassinated, but still… you’re biting your nails and squirming.
I’d just as soon make pretend that the Richard Gere, Bruce Willis thing never happened….
Worst. Remake. Ever.
“Barb Wire.” I watched it, fully expecting it to suck. Knew it would stink. Would have been disappointed if it had not been a rancid festering turd of surpassingly painful awfulness. I mean, hey, sometimes you feel like watching a bad film, just so you can say to yourself, “So I may be a total failure and not even my dog likes me, but at least I haven’t spent a couple million dollars to make a movie so bad it causes your eyeballs to bleed.”
And, whooooooie! Was it ever horrendous! I would cheerfully murder a whole busload of nuns just to get out of watching it!
But what ruined it, what totally depressed me, was halfway through when it occurred to me that it was a remake of “Casablanca.”
Ohmigawd! It isn’t just one of the worst films ever made, but it also is a insult to one of the best! After that, the only film I want to see Pamela Anderson star in is a snuff film.