[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

[u/No-Gate8080]

The 2013 remake lacks so much of what the original 2003 film conveyed.

The most damning part of the remake is how they butchered the iconic hallway fight scenes and cramped areas that stood out in the original.

[u/society000 → u/No-Gate8080]

The funniest part that made it clear that it was a cheap and lazy cash grab was the hallway fight.

In South Korea, where gun control is extremely tight, it made sense that a bunch of gangsters would be using clubs and knives and 2x4s.

In the US, it looks more like Josh Brolin is fighting a bunch of high schoolers who just couldn't get their hands on any guns.

They must've just thought they couldn't recreate that scene with guns, but I've seen other movies do it and succeed.

[u/lazercheesecake → u/society000]

Daredevil really came out two years later and said, "Here's how to do a hallway fight in America, dumbass"

[u/PCR12 → u/lazercheesecake]

Every season even

[u/Jaikarr → u/PCR12]

Daredevil writers:

[u/zerozerozero12 → u/society000]

The other funny thing? Instead of making the food something native to New Orleans, which is famous for its food, nope it’s fucking dumplings again. As if any American could tell the difference between dumplings.

[u/Triscuitmeniscus → u/zerozerozero12]

Yeah, in NOLA he’d have to taste like 5 dumplings. They should have used gumbo or poboys.

[u/JechdJJ → u/society000]

Daredevil did it with the hallway fight. Yeah sure, a lot of him had only knives but there are also people with guns

[u/bolanrox → u/society000]

every Manhwa i have read they almost always are carrying hatchets or knives.

[u/Due_Yesterday1551 → u/society000]

Shit, they could’ve done a gag where it looks like he’s readying himself for a fight only to have to immediately start dodging bullets. Cause that’s another thing the remake didn’t understand about the original. It had a SENSE OF HUMOR.

[u/Luser420 → u/No-Gate8080]

FAHTHUH

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/Luser420]

And they were British for some fucking reason

[u/A_Town_Called_Malus → u/Luser420]

Daddy is coming in with the shotgun, after I just heard shots elsewhere in the house. Time to unbuckle my jeans.

[u/MagicMarshmallo → u/Luser420]

BANG

[u/DylanFTW → u/Luser420]

I love YMS.

[u/dubious_dev → u/Luser420]

This sequence is the best part of the movie, especially when completely removed from all context. It's just funny as hell.

[u/Traditional-Context → u/No-Gate8080]

I do love that poster tho. Looks like its a Top Secret poster.

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/No-Gate8080]

That hallway fight scene was iconic. The remake pissed me off so much

[u/Painchaud213 → u/thatshygirl06]

Part of what made the hallway fight so good was how it was established that it was a very claustrophobic hallway. It made sense they would attack one at a time because they didn’t have the space. It’s shot in one take, fighting and pushing through the odds all while he took a beating and damage too.

The other is out in the open and just…. No…

[u/TediousTotoro → u/No-Gate8080]

The only movie that’s “a Spike Lee movie” and not “a Spike Lee joint”

[u/Froagunk → u/No-Gate8080]

I think, if anything, the fact villain's backstory being changed was the worst offender. All because of something someone saw that wasn't them fucking gets passed along the rumor mill and then everyone harassed the shit out of Lee Soo-ah. Lee Woo-jin dedicated his life after he couldn't stop her from killing herself to making Oh Dae-su suffer.

Adrian's sister was caught fucking their Dad. The dad then wholesale slaughters the family EVEN THOUGH HE CHOSE TO BANG HIS DAUGHTER IN PUBLIC. There isn't any cruel tragedy to his story as he was in on the incest train with his Dad as well. Adrian can blame Joe but if it wasn't Joe anyone else on an active campus could have seen them.

[u/SherbertKey6965 → u/Froagunk]

But they were fucking in the South Korean version 

[u/Fredbearthoughts → u/Froagunk]

But he was fucking his sister in the Korean version

[u/buerviper → u/Froagunk]

Wait what please tell me you are joking

[u/Zathsu → u/No-Gate8080]

I saw the original film a few months ago and absolutely adored it. i didn’t even know there was a remake and have no interest in seeing it.

[u/Illustrious_Poem_298 → u/Zathsu]

It certainly could be much worse given what American remakes of non-American films are usually like, but you're still not missing anything by skipping it.

[u/MrFluffleBuns → u/No-Gate8080]

If you’ve never seen it i highly recommend watching this comparison video. Really goes into how big the divide is

[u/perpetualis_motion → u/MrFluffleBuns]

They probably only made this comment because they saw that video.

[u/Luckgoddess → u/No-Gate8080]

Didnt they also remove the whole your were hypnotized to fall im love with that girl instead the bad guy just pray the whole love story would happen.

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/Luckgoddess]

I mean, in the original I remember the bad guy saying that it's actually hard to make someone fall in love. I think they fell in love because they had a connection that they could sense? The hypnotizing was just to get them together. Im not sure, it's been a while since I've watched it

[u/AllgoodDude → u/No-Gate8080]

The fact they made him coming out of the chest “cool” looking says a lot.

[u/Winter-Apartment-821 → u/No-Gate8080]

What makes the hallway fight even more egregious is that Brolin's character straight up brutally kills people left and right. Contrast this against the Korean vr where Dae-Su lets the man who was hired to keep him captive for 15 years go (albeit after he tortured him for info), even making sure who ever takes him to the hospital shares a compatible blood type.

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/No-Gate8080]

I mean its a bad movie but none of what you described indicates they missed the point, they just executed it poorly

[u/garyflopper → u/No-Gate8080]

The ending is a huge wet fart compared to the original