Psycho - 1998

Oh God why did they do such a thing? I just saw it on tv, and it was awful. There were even actors I like, which makes it worse. Always handsome Viggo Mortensen plays Sam, Marian's boyfriend. Julianne Moore is her sister Lila. Why did they accept to do this movie, I really don't know. Marion is played by Anne Heche. Only thing I kinda liked: Vince Vaughn. He plays Norman Bates, which of course is a problem because when you hear that name you know (you must know!) that 'the real one' is Anthony Perkins, and no one else. Still, if you think only of the role and not of the name, he's not bad at all, for what good there can be in such a movie as this :-/
They had to decide: a modern remake or simply a useless copy? and they made a mess.
Watching it you see the start of a modern movie, a normal one, then it falls into the copy rather quickly, with the long shots of Marion in her car, to the really horrible murder-in-the-shower scene. Ridiculously awful, the worst thing of it all: stabbed many times, then a close up on her face that looks more distressed than dying, then a modern shot of her butt when she falls forward.. supposedly she had to be covered in blood and yet she looked clean and immaculate, but no words can describe how badly it was done.
It was such an awful thing that when Norman took all her things into the car, I felt more strongly for the throwing-away of 400.000 dollars than of her body.
William H. Macy is private detective Arbogast, who is looking for a simple girl who stole some money, not for a crazy murderer, so he's not prepared and of course gets killed: a ridiculous scene of cuts on his face and a surreal fall down the stairs, and I guess Norman cleaned it all again: never seen anyone clean so well and so rapidly, without the tiniest trace left.
The murders scenes really sank this movie. I mean, in a way it did from the moment they decided to remake such a cult movie, but at the same time it could have been good to all those who didn't know the old one, but now that I've watched it I really doubt it, because if you don't know the old one the long shots in the car are boring, and the murders are even more awful and ridiculous, they look so stupid and badly done, I can't imagine why they chose this path, really. The only possible reason to remake such a movie should be for all the younger people who don't know it, but in that case it'd be stupid to copy (or try to copy) the old scenes! That knife in the air forever was ridiculous.