Everybody knows doing a remake of a classic movie is a mammoth task in itself but to remake a Hitchcock masterpiece is very brave indeed. I think Gus Van Sant did a very good job, certainly no where near as bad as the critics said it was. I thought it was well acted especially by William H. Macy and Robert Forster in their brief scenes, there were a few flaws that I thought were a little unnecessary like the masturbation scene and the nudity in the shower scene, I felt that as a scene for scene remake those parts should have been kept as they were in the original movie especially as Van Sant made the effort to get all the details right in other scenes, also I didn't get the Walkman thing with Julianne Moore. I think if the original version never existed and this was a stand alone movie, it would have never been panned as badly as it was but unfortunately Gus Van Sant had a tough mountain to climb with this one. Anyway I liked it.
Review of Psycho
