The Haunting: I kinda liked the remake even though it wasn't "good" exactly. Everyone said the old one was better, so I rented that and I didn't think it was very good either. Then everyone said the novel was better, so I read that, and IT wasn't very good. So I think that whole idea should have been scrapped from the beginning.
I love the novel. It's one of my favorite books, period. And I love the first movie, as well. I absolutely hated that the movie PCed up the storyline and made it all about teh childrenz instead of all about Eleanor's internal drama and the parallels between her and the nanny from long ago. I was also sad that a movie with Lilli Taylor and Catherine Zeta Jones was so horifically bad IMO. But then I read/saw them in this order: original movie - book - remade movie, and I saw the original movie in, I think, 1969 or 1970, when I was a pre-teen. It scared the dickens out of me, and I loved that. I think the originals have stood up very well. But to each his own. Have you read any of Ms. Jackson's other writing?
I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, (love it) and I think she wrote The Lottery, right? And I have another of hers sitting on my "to read" shelf. My dad's a big fan of hers. I didn't dislike the novel of The Haunting, but I wasn't impressed with it either. Only I did really like her description of the house. I wanted to draw it.
I was going to rec We Have Always Lived in the Castle to you. I like it even more than The Haunting. Yes, she did write The Lottery, which I'm not crazy about. I get her point, but I thought she was a little too "Here My Point!!!" about it. The house itself is one of my favorite things about the novel and the first movie and I even liked the house in the second movie. I just didn't like the way the plot was rewritten. You should draw the house!
Hard to say what I thought about The Lottery since I was told what to think of it before I read it.
I didn't mind the way the plot was re-written just because why bother telling the same story again? I think more remakes should change the plot. What I didn't like about the remake was how crazy it got with the all-out horror and special effects. It started out decently creepy and then went off the CGI deep end.
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I didn't mind the way the plot was re-written just because why bother telling the same story again? I think more remakes should change the plot. What I didn't like about the remake was how crazy it got with the all-out horror and special effects. It started out decently creepy and then went off the CGI deep end.
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