Last night, The Hollywood Reporter broke a story that Fox Searchlight had acquired the rights to Dissolve favorite Force Majeure and was courting Julia Louis-Dreyfus to star in an English-language remake. Because this announcement was made during the no man’s land that is a weekday after end of business, the only place that film types could bring their reactions was Twitter. As such, users plugged into the social-networking/microblogging platform’s cinephile community were subjected to variations on the two following reactions:

“BOOO LEAVE FORCE MAJEURE ALONE HAVEN’T YOU HOLLYWOOD PHONIES DILUTED ENOUGH GREAT FOREIGN MOVIES ALREADY #morelikeforcemaSNORE”

“AW HELL YES AMERICAN FORCE MAJEURE FINALLY SOME GOOD SOURCE MATERIAL TO RIP OFF UP IN THIS PIECE #maytheforcemajeurebewithyou"

As is the case with the majority of divisive announcements on Twitter, it led to impassioned appeals, salient arguments, but mostly all-caps typing. As per usual, both sides were kind of right and kind of misguided.

Remaking a popular foreign film for American audiences can be tricky business. A film’s sensibility, that invisible vibe that’s there but can’t really be placed, often reads specifically to a nation’s audience and can get lost in translation. Force Majeure could easy fall into that trap; the film smoothly glides between brutal black comedy and troubling domestic drama, two genres that viewers in the U.S. have historically avoided like the plague. (In a safer and more perfect world, Death To Smoochy would’ve been hailed as the sick-and-twisted work of brilliance that it is.) America traditionally has not provided a warm home for depictions of brazen cowardice—this is America, goddammit—and so the likelihood of Fox sanding some of the film’s sharper edges down to a nub certainly looms large over this project.

But at the same time, why not choose to be optimistic about it? None of us have the power to stop Hollywood from strip-mining the past in search of green lights, so why not celebrate when they deign to tap movies with potential instead of rightly laid-to-rest relics of the ’80s? Even the folks in the anti-remake camp willfully concede that Louis-Dreyfus is a tremendous comic talent, and probably perfect for the material. The adaptation’s directorial pick will ultimately decide which way the winds will blow for American Force Majeure Remake, but JLD is as fine a place to start as any. What is Force Majeure if not a deconstructive episode of Seinfeld, exploring what might come to pass if a person were actually as craven and terrible and Jerry and the gang?