no matter what other people have said you can not review this movie without comparing it to the original and if it existed on it own it would be a 2 3 out of 5 film but it is a remake of a 4 5 out of 5 film and so has standards to live up to and we need to see if it reached those standards. if the film was a re working or and as in planet of the apes and a re imagining of the original you would be able to look at the film in it own right and only referencing the original. imagine it this way and if someone took the model in the mona lisa and posed her in a different way and and painted her you could only compare the framing and concept etc to the original but if someone just repainted her in the position of the original you would have to compare it totally. that said this film doesn not just fail to be as good as the original it fails spectacularly and like it or not the original was one of the best movies ever made and the shower scene will never be forgotten and the remake was meant to be a celebration of hitchcock but ended up actually degrading him and his master work. the degrading aspects of this picture were vince vaughn and anne heche. it nothing to do with wether they acted better or not it that the relationship between norman and marion in the original was really quite innocent and norman do not really understand sex and he had hardly any contact with the outside world and when he meets beautiful marion and watches her change you feel that he is partly doing it from fascination as he doesn not really understand sex and his attraction to her and this makes norman sympathetic and almost an anti hero and you are on his side because he doesn not fully understand the world and is constantly fighting with himself and his mother. in the remake that whole dynamic is gone and i must admit to janet leigh not being my type but she is very attractive and you can see that and anne heche is really unattractive and so norman finding her marion attractive is unbelievable if you add that to vince vaughn norman masturbating whilst looking at her and you get a norman that is just waiting for a chance to jack off at any naked woman no matter what she looks like and who you feel absolutely no sympathy for and they further destroy norman innocent nature by putting the porno mags in his room. it destroys a character that we have come to like and feel sorry for and it like re making it a wonderful life and having the main character a pimp and totally degrading. the only other character that i had problems with was rita wilson as caroline and marion workmate. in the original when pat hitchcock says the line he must have noticed my wedding ring it elicits a response of laughter as she is absolutely kidding herself and when rita says it it just seems plausible as there really isn not any other reason why any man would flirt with anne heche over her. i will admit that i am very biased and the original psycho is my favorite film of all time and had the film been a reworking and with a different angle and then you could have turned these characters on their heads and it would have been perfectly acceptable. hitch famously thaught the film would be too gory in colour and made it in black and white to lessen it. this also made the film more atmospheric and frightening in it own way and it gave it a beauty that could never be captured in colour and it is a sad statement about how movies are de sensetising the public that people have said how the shower scene was more frightening in colour. (n. b before people think he can not spell remember i am from england and we spell it colour)a remake should be just that and re made and this is a forgery and a complete copy and a very bad one at that. i could go on comparing but there is no point and almost everything is superior in the original. the only one thing that is better is the performance of viggo mortensen as sam loomis and john gavin was very flat in the original (hitch called him the stiff behind his back) and mortensen gives a more believable if less likeable performance. william h. macy and julianne moore are the only other actors that hold up to the originals. overall a movie that should be labeled expensive embarrassing failed experiment. only view if comparing to original or if original is unknown to you. but view original too the movie would have got a 3 out of 5 if it were original or a reworking but as it is 0. 5 out of 5 (for macy and moore and mortensen). 
no matter what other people have said you can not review this movie without comparing it to the original and if it existed on it own it would be a 2 3 out of 5 film but it is a remake of a 4 5 out of 5 film and so has standards to live up to and we need to see if it reached those standards. if the film was a re working or and as in planet of the apes and a re imagining of the original you would be able to look at the film in it own right and only referencing the original. imagine it this way and if someone took the model in the mona lisa and posed her in a different way and and painted her you could only compare the framing and concept etc to the original but if someone just repainted her in the position of the original you would have to compare it totally. that said this film doesn not just fail to be as good as the original it fails spectacularly and like it or not the original was one of the best movies ever made and the shower scene will never be forgotten and the remake was meant to be a celebration of hitchcock but ended up actually degrading him and his master work. the degrading aspects of this picture were vince vaughn and anne heche. it nothing to do with wether they acted better or not it that the relationship between norman and marion in the original was really quite innocent and norman do not really understand sex and he had hardly any contact with the outside world and when he meets beautiful marion and watches her change you feel that he is partly doing it from fascination as he doesn not really understand sex and his attraction to her and this makes norman sympathetic and almost an anti hero and you are on his side because he doesn not fully understand the world and is constantly fighting with himself and his mother. in the remake that whole dynamic is gone and i must admit to janet leigh not being my type but she is very attractive and you can see that and anne heche is really unattractive and so norman finding her marion attractive is unbelievable if you add that to vince vaughn norman masturbating whilst looking at her and you get a norman that is just waiting for a chance to jack off at any naked woman no matter what she looks like and who you feel absolutely no sympathy for and they further destroy norman innocent nature by putting the porno mags in his room. it destroys a character that we have come to like and feel sorry for and it like re making it a wonderful life and having the main character a pimp and totally degrading. the only other character that i had problems with was rita wilson as caroline and marion workmate. in the original when pat hitchcock says the line he must have noticed my wedding ring it elicits a response of laughter as she is absolutely kidding herself and when rita says it it just seems plausible as there really isn not any other reason why any man would flirt with anne heche over her. i will admit that i am very biased and the original psycho is my favorite film of all time and had the film been a reworking and with a different angle and then you could have turned these characters on their heads and it would have been perfectly acceptable. hitch famously thaught the film would be too gory in colour and made it in black and white to lessen it. this also made the film more atmospheric and frightening in it own way and it gave it a beauty that could never be captured in colour and it is a sad statement about how movies are de sensetising the public that people have said how the shower scene was more frightening in colour. (n. b before people think he can not spell remember i am from england and we spell it colour)a remake should be just that and re made and this is a forgery and a complete copy and a very bad one at that. i could go on comparing but there is no point and almost everything is superior in the original. the only one thing that is better is the performance of viggo mortensen as sam loomis and john gavin was very flat in the original (hitch called him the stiff behind his back) and mortensen gives a more believable if less likeable performance. william h. macy and julianne moore are the only other actors that hold up to the originals. overall a movie that should be labeled expensive embarrassing failed experiment. only view if comparing to original or if original is unknown to you. but view original too the movie would have got a 3 out of 5 if it were original or a reworking but as it is 0. 5 out of 5 (for macy and moore and mortensen). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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