bad re-make or bad adaptation?

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2005)

Is this the way that everyone is going to react when a second movie adaptation is made decades after the first adaptation was released? Are you going to compare everything to it's predecessor? When a director uses a classic story and creates their own version on the screen they don't want you to come into the movie with preconceived notions. Don't compare their work to someone else's.
This movie is not a "re-make", it's an "adaptation". If you don't like it because you don't think it holds true to the original story, then fine, so be it. But if you dislike this movie because you think it's too different from the '71 version then you shouldn't be allowed to see more than one movie if it's based on a book.
I hate to see what you people will say once King Kong is released- "Oh, Naomi Watts doesn't capture the essence of Ann Darrow's terror like Fay Wrey did."