High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewTrue Lies Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/true-lies/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: Coming to America https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-american-remakes-of-foreign-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-american-remakes-of-foreign-movies/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:00:05 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=84073 The Hollywood studios love remaking popular foreign movies almost as much as they love remaking their own old movies. Sometimes this works out well, but often it doesn’t. In this week’s Roundtable, we look at examples of each. M. Enois Duarte Best: One of the most surprising American remakes of recent memory, for me, was...

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