Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting melchar ([email protected]): > >> Mo reviewed the 'Day the Earth Stood Still' as she wished it had >> stopped, saw the original and thinks the original had dignity; > > Review of the remake from my friends at The eXile: > http://exiledonline.com/film-review-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-makes-a-few-bucks/ > > ...If you're wondering why this movie's making money, you just > haven't been paying attention lately. In this, the Great Cinematic > Famine of '08, a film doesn't have to be any good to make money. > It just has to be a genre film in which stuff happens. There's > nothing else to see now but kids' movies (Bolt, Madagascar 2), > earnest Oscar-bait (Milk, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Australia), and the > occasional Holocaust flick (The Reader, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas). > Oh, and Gran Torino, in which Clint Eastwood plays a crusty old codger > overcoming his racial prejudice, if you're into that sort of thing. > And just look at what's looming up this week: The Tale of Despereaux > (animated mouse movie), Seven Pounds (suicidal Will Smith drama) Yes Man > (grimly formulaic Jim Carrey comedy), and The Wrestler (Mickey > Rourke's masochistic jamboree). That choking sensation you're > feeling is a sudden panicky urge to see The Day the Earth Stood Still....
They left out one category: for the last few years, there have been plenty of stupid remakes of films where either (a) the original film was perfect and can't be improved upon, so should never have been remade (Bond flicks, the Pink Panther series, The Longest Yard) or (b) the plot is pointless and should have simply been allowed to die of neglect (Lost In Space, Fantastic Four, Gone in 60 Seconds). But Hollywood doesn't care. They can just blame Internet file-sharing for their sagging sales. The fact that their products SUCK doesn't even show up on their radar screens! _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
