[QUOTE=Baggett;397853]There was no nudity in original and there will be no nudity in the remake as it is a scene by scene reshoot so to speak with an "American" cast.
Not only that but the scene-by-scene remake is made by the same director: Michael Haneke, a brilliant German-born director (his "Cache"/"Hidden" was an art-house hit a while back) who's made some very disturbing films in Europe, the original "Funny Games" being one of the creepiest. Why he wanted to do an exact remake of his own film for Hollywood I have no idea, but he runs the risk of being seen as having made what one critic called "just another Naomi Watts thriller", meaningless in the American marketplace, which will do nothing for his reputation. The remake will probably sink without a trace. Way too weird for the mainstream American audience and way too tame for the torture-porn crowd.
And that's your film review for today.
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