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Post by neferetus on Mar 30, 2007 15:03:53 GMT -5
A very great man once told me that some among the younger generation will not bother to see a movie if it was made before they were born. This being the case with many, Hollywood has seen fit to dust off some old Hollywood Classis and retool them for the younger set.
Take this plot, for instance. A guy is confined to his room for an indefinite length of time, so, to alleviate his boredom, he gets a pair of binoculars and peeps into the windows ---and the private lives---of all the folks across the way. He even gets the assistance of his ladyfriend, who is, at first skeptical of his claim that he has witnessed a man murdering a woman. The ladyfriend is even encouraged to go across the street to investigate the would be killer and get evidence. However, when the killer discovers that he has been discovered, things get hairy. Sound familiar? No, it is not Alfed Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW, but a new teen film called DISTURBIA.
Here's another: A guy is murdered and discovers, after trying to communicate with everyone around him, that he is a ghost. Another ghost gives him the rules about being a spectre and then he sets off to discover why he was murdered. The only person who can actually hear him, he finds, is a young woman and together they set out to unravel the mystery. Again, it is not GHOST, with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayzee, but a new teen thriller called THE INVISIBLE.
Other films of a recent vintage have likewise taken up the torch, notably 13 GOING ON THIRTY with Jennifer Garner assuming the role of Tom Hanks in BIG.
Can anyone recall any more of these celluoid retreads If so, please share.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 2, 2007 8:32:08 GMT -5
Both will have at least five sex scenes and several references to drug use, but it has to have gobblins, ogers and other LOTR special effects like 300!!
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Post by neferetus on Apr 4, 2007 13:16:13 GMT -5
Just released to theaters today, Ice Cube and Suzanne Long star in ARE WE DONE YET? a comedy about a couple that buys an old house in the country, tries to refurbish it and everything in the world goes wrong. Sounds rather like the 1986 film THE MONEY PIT, with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, itself a remake of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE, the 1948 comedy with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, also a couple who build a home in the county, only to find it all but unrefurbishable. At least Cary and Myrna have the good sense to tear down the structure and start from scratch.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 5, 2007 13:02:06 GMT -5
Hey, I just noticed the names of the two actresses: Shelly Long and Suzanne Long. Coincidence?
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Post by neferetus on Apr 5, 2007 13:03:03 GMT -5
There's a new adventure film out called PATHFINDER. However, although it takes place on the Eastern seaboard and involves Indians, it has absolutely nothing to do with the adventures of "Pathfinder" Natty Bumpo of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. But, like Indian-raised Bumpo, this PATHFINDER is also an Indian-raised backwoodsman with European roots who champions the cause of the indiginous Americans.
Incidently, does anyone remember the 1936 version of LAST OF THE MOHICANS with Randolph Scott, as "Hawkeye" Bumpo? How would you compare it with the Daniel Day Louis version of nearly 60 years later?
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Rick
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Post by Rick on Apr 5, 2007 21:31:08 GMT -5
There's a new adventure film out called PATHFINDER. However, although it takes place on the Eastern seaboard and involves Indians, it has absolutely nothing to do with the adventures of "Pathfinder" Natty Bumpo of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. But, like Indian-raised Bumpo, this PATHFINDER is also an Indian-raised backwoodsman with European roots who champions the cause of the indiginous Americans. Incidently, does anyone remember the 1936 version of LAST OF THE MOHICANS with Randolph Scott, as "Hawkeye" Bumpo? How would you compare it with the Daniel Day Louis version of nearly 60 years later? TCM showed the 1936 LOTM last fall. For a B&W version it's not bad. Even had Bruce Cabot playing Magua. To me it's just the difference that nearly 60 years can make. In its time the Scott version likely was state of the art. The Daniel Day-Lewis version is one of the best films I've seen, primarily because of its authentic look and feel. I thought he WAS Hawkeye, while Scott looked like a movie star in costume. That's not a knock on it or him -- I'm just noting the different eras in which they were made. And didn't the new version pay credit to the 1936 screenplay in the credits? I still think DDL would make a fine Crockett on film.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 15, 2007 9:37:48 GMT -5
Yes, Hawkeye with a brooklyn accent
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