I can’t think of a movie less in need of a remake. It’s not anachronistic, it won’t be done better with a big budget or modern special effects or anything like that. It doesn’t need some sort of spin for the new generation, it isn’t that old. It still holds up in its entirety. I can see no reason to remake this, it’s just bizarre.
Are we just so out of ideas for movies that now we just throw darts at a wall of DVDs and whichever one it lands on, we remake it?
If you haven’t seen the original, go do so. Don’t read up on it first. Just dive in.
Ever article I’ve read about this treats it like some big Hollywood studio doing a big budget remake. But the actually production company does low budget, direct to DVD stuff. They just bought the rights to a bunch of movies so they can churn out cheap remakes.
Most of the of the movie was trying to follow the journey and figure out where it would end up. The big reveal at the end or beginning with Joey Pants, I mean Teddy, and how he was playing Leonard’s memory loss for his own gain was the whole movie. Seeing how it all fell together. Teddy, the girlfriend betrayal, it was all a puzzle that fell into place at the end.
Have you ever sat down to do a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle a second time? It just isn’t the same. A waste of time.
But now that it is all out in the open let’s make a remake! Hell, lets make a remake of the Sixth Sense too, with Bruce knowing he is dead the whole time. Wouldn’t that be exciting? Wouldn’t it? No.
I see that these genius’ Andrea and Monica at AMBI Pictures also now own the rights to Donnie Darko and we all know how well S. Darko turned out. You don’t remember S. Darko? Because it was an even bigger box office flop than Donnie was. The only people who still remember S. Darko are the people who are now former actors.
A Memento remake will make sense in another 15 or 20 years after the original has faded away. But not yet, maybe never.
3 or so years ago, I polled a dozen college kids and none had seen Memento, so perhaps it’s not that well known in certain demographics.
From Wikipedia: “scheduled to be released in China on December 4, 2015 and in the United States on December 25, 2015 in 3D and RealD Cinema.” That tells me everything I need to know. Hollywood doesn’t care if you think a remake is unnecessary, and doesn’t give a crap that Transformers 7 is considered pointless or gets 5% at Rotten Tomatoes. The billions of yuans are enough.
It’s about time for a remake of the atrocious 90s film/Apple advertisement “Blank Check.”
From the commericals, it’s apparently just an excuse so they can add in masks of President Bush and Obama, because wow does that look like an utter waste of… .well I guess they don’t actually use celluloid anymore.
I thought S. Darko was direct to video… Anyway, it was a lot better than the creator’s actual followup, Southland Tales. I bet David Lynch would be confused by that mess.
Having the main character use a computer rather than tattoos would make the remake a very short film. He won’t be able to remember his password to log on!
It’s not being remade for us old fogies who already saw it. It’ being remade fro the youngsters who wouldn’t think of renting the old version. So, yeah, someone figured they could make a buck by redoing the film. If they actually do a good job (unlikely, but possible) that will be icing on the cake.
They could make the main character one of the Kartrashians, and she wouldn’t even have to have the memory defect to be totally lost in the world.
I do like the idea from a direct-to-video or writing prompt POV. How would things be different if Leonard could at least remember to check in with his digital life?
Well, I hope they don’t get all stupidly science-fictiony about how he has a limited supply of viable short-term memory which he taxes when under stress.
Of course, if they want to call it “Memento: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank”, I won’t mind too much.
