when i was bitching about v for vendetta people told me you have to judge re-makes on their own rights, not relative to the work they're adapting. but that's bs. if you're adapting something, you should probably understand it, especially thematically. furthermore, if there's already a lot in the original to work with, you have even fewer excuses for messing it up. and finally, if you want to "make it your own" and say to hell with anything the original author had in mind, then why adapt it in the first place? that's just stupid. oh wait, maybe it's because you can just leech of the fame of something that already exists. i guess that's not stupid (just despicable).
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