This movie is crying out to be remade
For one thing they could put in all the stuff from the book that the Hayes office or fear of it wouldn't let them leave in.
shareI vote for a remake. Seeing there was so much effort in writing the books it's a shame that the whole story is not put onto the screen. The series option nowadays will be most suitable. The classic will always be the classic. Widening the viewing audience will lift the number of ratings. After all these years there aren't even 10,000 ratings.
I liked both the original and new version of True Grit. I must admit that I prefer to watch the new version. So do most people. The new version is rated at 7.8 whereas the old version is 7.3. There are 140,000 ratings for the new version and only 20,000 for the old version. Having recently watched the new version I went back and watched the old version again. Perhaps I liked watching the old version again because I am more able to appreciate it; I was quite young when I watched it the first time. I imagine the same sort of thing will happen to a remake of How Green Was My Valley.
Turning to Lolita. With that film the original version is rated higher than the remake and it has received more ratings as well. Once again, however, I prefer the remake. I think I watched the remake first and then the original.
Generally remakes are better than originals because of the better art direction: sets, lighting, cinematography etc. They don't make movies like they used to; they make them better.
For the record, I quite liked this film. I would describe it as beautiful but in a melancholic way.
7/10