With Pulse opening up today, I thought I would take this opportunity to plead with Hollywood to STOP REMAKING FILMS. The list of remakes is just astonishing. The Wicker Man I don't particularly care about, cause the ass slapping in the original kinda put me off. And I have no problem with ass slapping, but this was just weird.
I just read today that they are remaking Battle Royale. And by remake, I mean someone feels the need to market to the young teen American audience (as it will inevitably have a PG-13 rating). It's just horrible and I'm not happy about.
Now about Pulse. I'm a little torn here. It looks creepy, but the PG-13 rating just puts me off. No offense to the younger crowd, but I do not want to see a movie and put up with a bunch of 13-16 year olds texting each other and acting like idiots. (I originally included 17 yr olds in that mix, till I realized that they can get into R movies anyway.) This has happened quite a few times, and really the only alternative is to see a "Past curfew" showing, which is what we did for Stay Alive. Then there's whole movie itself. I can't say Kairo was my favorite movie, but I understand what it was attempting to say. I have a feeling that Pulse bastardized (this is my new favorite word) the plot, removed all the existential overtones (not necessarily damaging), and threw in some cheap scares for the teenagers. Not to mention the fact that it didn't test well when it was supposed to be release months ago, so it had to be reworked. So I may just wait for the DVD release, as it most likely will be "Unrated".
Making this decision doesn't help me with the "If I only saw 1 movie tonight, which would it be?" problem I have. I'm at least 3-4 movies behind at this point.