okay and so gus van sant want to remake psycho in color so that he could bring it into modern audience and who would probably go into cardiac arrest if they be ever force to see a movie in black and white and while they conveniently forget that both clerk and schindler list be film in black and white and be great movie . unfortunately and the same narrow mind people who wouldn not want to see a great movie just because it in black and white be the same people who wouldn not like psycho anyway and because it doesn not have a murder or sex scene every two minute . and the murder be not the grisly blood or gut or gore or bone snapping that people be use to from have see halloween and friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street . this be why remake psycho almost exactly a it be originally be destine to not work and because it really only of interest to people who be fan of the original . everyone else be just watch it to tide them over until the next scream sequel come out and and for that reason and they will be disappoint . psycho relies on suspense and mystery and not blood and gut . ( and just so nobody think that i must be a senior citizen if i like old movie and let me set the record straight by say that i be 21 . ) so if do the movie in color be all that van sant want to change and why not just colorize the movie and rerelease it . i mean and what the point of remake a movie if youre not go to change anything . the least he could have do be to put his own director spin on it and rather than just copy hitchcock or even good and hire a new writer to adapt a new script from the original psycho book . but it seem that van sant couldn not decide whether he want to remake psycho exactly or not . this should have be an all or nothing project either remake the movie exactly or do it differently but a it stand and this movie be about 95 % the same and but with a few touch throw in that do not seem to have any purpose . such a have norman masturbate while he spy on marion undressing . it doesn not serve the plot at all and and the only reason he put it in be because he could . he want to say and hitch couldn not show people masturbate in 1960 so i be go to do it . whoopee and big deal and like i be so shocked at see someone masturbate . and what on earth be the point of show single frame shot of cloud and farm animal splice into the murder scene . and then he leave out an important scene and where lila and sam meet the sheriff outside the church . plus and by use the almost exact same script and the entire movie seem a bit of an anachronism . the opening credit say that the year be 1998. then what with marion 60 ish look dress or the parasol she carry with her . why do marion and sam have to have their tryst in a hotel room and when these day nobody would be shock by what they be do . why be there no air conditioner in marion office . why do the bates motel have no tv in the room and and apparently no automatic lock on the door . why do the sheriff have to ask the operator to connect him to the bates motel . this be why use the exact same script be a mistake just change a few word here and there be not enough to modernize it . it need a whole reworking . while vince vaughn turn in a good performance a norman and he just do not seem right for the part . part of what make the original psycho so creepy be that norman have that innocent and boy next door quality and so nobody could believe that he be capable of such horrible crime . with vince vaughn play the part and be anyone really surprise that norman be a psychopathic killer . that say and i can understand that gu van sant be obviously a fan of the original psycho movie and and want this to be a tribute . this isn not a bad movie and but the problem be that this may be some people only exposure to psycho . i really think you should see this movie only if you have see the original . since i be a fan of anything to do with psycho and i buy a used copy of the remake and which i may watch occasionally . the original movie be a filet mignon and whereas the remake be a hamburger . but even filet mignon would get boring if you have it everyday and so it nice to have a hamburger once in a while and for a change .