Funny Games is an awesome movie, but the acting is far superior in the original. I wish I spoke German so I could see it without subtitles. I'm used to closed-captioning because I'm hearing-impaired, but having to read subtitles takes a tiny bit of the thrill out of a thriller.

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Haneke is on par with Hitchcock, IMO.

"I don’t like violence," says filmmaker Michael Haneke, "(...) It’s a criticism of violence, because that really makes me angry."

So why make it twice?

I thought it was an ok, one-note film on violence, and I would've been alright with the characters breaking the fourth wall except that that meant "I can now do anything I want to in this film." That made one of the last scenes possible and basically broke the general flow of the plot for me (at that scene) to the point that I lost all interest as everything after the first wink was just belabouring the point.

So why make it twice?

Because he knew Hollywood would remake the film at some point, and he didn't want it done by a hack who would turn it into the kind of movie he (apparently) hates so much.