Let me just bypass my usual rant on the over dependence of Hollywood on remakes of movies and movies based on old TV shows and get right to it.

Remaking Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds is a very bad idea.

I don’t care if Martin Campbell is directing (he’s the guy who did the most excellent and recent James Bond movie Casino Royale). I also don’t care if Naomi Watts is set to star.

This breaks 3 of the 5 rules of when it’s OK to remake a film:

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