And most of it isn't very funny. Annoying, yes, but funny, no. (But, I am very hard sell on comedy.)

Great. Now I have the 'Sweet mystery of Life' song running around in my brain.

When I was a kid, I had the Young Frankenstein soundtrack (with dialog) on 8-track. I got it from the Columbia House Record Club and played it on my Panasonic Dynamite player. I can recite most of that movie in my sleep...

If films remade from other films are the lowest form of creativity ... what then to make of such movies as The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ten Commandments, Pocketful of Miracles, The Children's Hour, An Affair to Remember, and Destry that were remade by the very same filmmaker?!




Ahem, it was none other than Alfred Hitchcock who remade his own film, The Man Who Knew Too Much. Can we ascribe the lowest sub-circle of creative hell to such a giant???

And the second version of TMWKTM is even better than the first! Imagine that!

If you remake the movie yourself you get to keep all of the creative credit but unless you do something substantially unique in the second go 'round (which is not the case for The Man Who Knew Too Much or An Affair to Remember) then that total creative amount is not much increased by the second movie.

In my opinion, of course.

But, wow, I love the way that acronym looks!

And NA is right about the second being better. Just not a particularly creative effort.

But I also don't have a problem with remakes. You just don't get full creative credit.

So, what about films based on books? Is that any different/better/worse?

Yes, the remake of TMWKTM brought us "Que Sera Sera," but we lost Peter Lorre. I like the original.