Good job Gus Van Sant. I liked everything about this except Anne Heche. I'll never understand why she was put into this part.
I love this idea of making not a remake of a great film but a recreation. Almost scene for scene and word for word the same movie, only updated. ($400,000 instead of $40,000 and the like) Even the license plate numbers on both of Marion's cars were the same!
I liked Viggo Mortenson (A Perfect Murder), William H Macy, Philip Baker Hall (he is cool, check out Hard Eight aka Sydney) Vince Vaughn had his moments. Some parts he was better than Perkins was in the original. He seemed more.. what's the word.. effeminate? But kind of like I said in my comments for the original Psycho, It was hard to believe that Vince Vaughn's Norman didn't actually commit the murder. In 1960 I take it a lot of people didn't know. If this '98 version was the only version I'm sure that would not have been the case.
One other thing to watch for... Either Anne Heche has a trouble with her math or someone was playing a game with her/us. Check out her in her motel room subtracting from $400,000.
Good movie, a Hitchcock fan should give it a view. I give it a 7 out of 10. Even with Anne Heche.
I love this idea of making not a remake of a great film but a recreation. Almost scene for scene and word for word the same movie, only updated. ($400,000 instead of $40,000 and the like) Even the license plate numbers on both of Marion's cars were the same!
I liked Viggo Mortenson (A Perfect Murder), William H Macy, Philip Baker Hall (he is cool, check out Hard Eight aka Sydney) Vince Vaughn had his moments. Some parts he was better than Perkins was in the original. He seemed more.. what's the word.. effeminate? But kind of like I said in my comments for the original Psycho, It was hard to believe that Vince Vaughn's Norman didn't actually commit the murder. In 1960 I take it a lot of people didn't know. If this '98 version was the only version I'm sure that would not have been the case.
One other thing to watch for... Either Anne Heche has a trouble with her math or someone was playing a game with her/us. Check out her in her motel room subtracting from $400,000.
Good movie, a Hitchcock fan should give it a view. I give it a 7 out of 10. Even with Anne Heche.