The NostalgiaCritic did a surgical dissection on The Langoliers which is, as with so many of his reviews, far better than the film itself.
As for the subject at hand, I don't know whether to nominate the unnecessary remakes - or butchering - of The Ladykillers and The Wicker Man. The reason for my dithering is that they were so deeply flawed and misguided there was no way to rescue them. There was certainly no way they could aspire to the classic status of the originals which I would take over the remakes any day (or in the case of The Wicker Man, the non-theatrical uncut verion).
As for the subject at hand, I don't know whether to nominate the unnecessary remakes - or butchering - of The Ladykillers and The Wicker Man. The reason for my dithering is that they were so deeply flawed and misguided there was no way to rescue them. There was certainly no way they could aspire to the classic status of the originals which I would take over the remakes any day (or in the case of The Wicker Man, the non-theatrical uncut verion).
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
