Kevin Smith remake
It seems Kevin Smith of Clerks fame is going to do a remake of this wacky movie.
shareI WON'T HAVE IT!!! I WILL HUNT DOWN KEVEN SMITH AND SPANK HIS FAT ASS WITH A CRICKET BAT IF HE TRIES!!!!!!
Seriously, this is exactly the kind of film it's foolish to remake - it's a movie that's better than it has any right to be. It's a movie where the filmmakers threw in the most ridiculous hash of ingredients and sprinkled irreverent deadpan humor over it all, and it worked! It shouldn't have worked, but it did. There's no way in hell a second try at the same material could be even half is good, because lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place and you can't remake quirky successes.
No, the kind of movie you want to remake are the kind that you can improve on.
"No, the kind of movie you want to remake are the kind that you can improve on."
Maybe in the 8th dimension they do...
Here they remake movies that had some success, if not straight out hits, exactly with the delusion of having lightning strike twice in the same place.
So, it's almost always a bad idea to do a remake here.