Japenese Remake=New American Film?

April 25, 2006 mle3

For decades now, American moviegoers have enjoyed hit new movies by famous directors. But wait-just how 'new' are these movies anyway? Surely great minds can't still be churning out classic hits?

Nope. Well, not for the most part, anyway. Japenese film director Takashi Shimizu, who has directed such movies as "Ju-On" (what we know as Sarah Michelle Gellar starring in "The Grudge") says that, "Hollywood is short of good ideas — across all the genres — and also reluctant to take a chance on a film because if it's a flop, then they lose a lot of money and are hit hard by the critics."

It seems sad to me that Hollywood would rather take a chance on what's out there, then risk making something new. Or at least giving major props to these other countries with the original ideas-maybe it would give the "stupid American" title a little less of an edge.

As a sequel is coming to "Ju-On", so is "The Grudge Two," both set to come out some time next year.