Yes but but but... I think it's a bit sick when stuff like this is recycled for no other reason than to squeeze out more profits, when (a) it's been filmed by someone like Hitchcock and (b) people are still writing thrillers now and they can't all be formulaic and ephemeral... can they?

The remake I found perhaps most ridiculous was Stephen King's recasting of his own novel The Shining as a TV "miniseries" because he thought Kubrick's film hadn't done justice to his book. The remake is of course prosaic and bland and reinstates all the backstory and other details and filler which Kubrick, as an artist native to the film medium, knew were unnecessary on the screen. I haven't seen King's remake (transplanted to be set in the US of course) of Lars von Trier's  Kingdom, which is surely one of the most weird and original things ever to reach TV, but I imagine that's even more of a dog's breakfast.

 

Who is Jason Bourne?

You and I are evidently not a modern audience.

Evidently not richard, but it does not bother me one iota.  When I glance at the Red Tops I think "Who is this Chantelle/Preston/Jade/Katona etc."  I just don't buy into popular culture/consumerism/designer labels/big brother/video games/crap.

I just go my own sweet way.  Other lifestyles don't really impinge on my world, deep in the rainforests here it is peaceful.  Although I do embark on an 80s retro trip now and again.

Back on topic.  I have only seen the 1935 version (it was on BBC a few years back) I thought it terrific and of course had the lovely John Laurie as Crofter John and Peggy Ashcroft as his wife.

Re the Classics, I hope they never remake The Third Man.  In fact, they couldn't because audiences wouldn't understand it.

Why George, I do believe he is a Fine Purveyor and Procurer of Teas from the Distant Orient to the Noble Burghers of Snorbans.  It is the on-dit that his Father was Brooke-Bond

I dunno, ain't never heard of him either