Funny enough, I was thinking of the original recently. It is still a good movie, and if you haven't seen it, you gotta check it out.
Also, it was directed by Joel Schumacher, and its one of his best films. One of many examples of his filmography that makes me go "there was MORE going on to explain the final products that are his Batman films", and thus we get the Uncut version of Batman Forever, and his proposed Batman 5/Year One.
As for this remake, I gotta give credit where credit's due. They do enhanced and offer new ideas onto this concept. The idea of knowing how to do things when you didn't before (piano, motorcycle driving) is brand new; also the suspense and attempted deaths, if not ultimately deaths, is also brand new because....
I don't want to spoil the original film, but the sins weren't trying to kill all of them, but just one. The sins in the original were a variety: murder, cheating, mocking, and guilt. And for most of them, how they resolved these issues weren't always confronting the ghosts.
That's not to say this movie's direction is bad or not, its just different. I'm very interested in the remake's...remade concept of the original. If anything, it does offer new ideas and new motivations for our main character, played by Ellen Page, compared to the original's main character, played by Kiefer Sutherland. As much as the events will break the characters to their core, to the point where they'll experience losses.
So yeah, I'm interested in the remake. And I will check this out as well as rewatch the original, and you guys should too, if not see it for the first time.
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