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kjpepperAs if we needed more proof that Hollywood is completely out of ideas, Disney is remaking Adventures in Babysitting
OMG. WTF. WHY?
Okay, please note that this has been one of my favorite movies since I was like 8. I could probably still dig out the Point Paperback novelization of it out from somewhere at The House. It's got that quintessential 80s charm, not to mention has Vincent D'Onofrio in a hilarious bit part that I'll bet he wished the world somehow missed.
But it's still a pretty blazingly awful movie (hence it now being a cult classic). Like a Chicago street gang would really be scared of lily white, pretty, young Elizabeth Shue just because she famously yells, "Don't fuck with the babysitter!" And now, they're remaking it. no. Disney is remaking it. IE, they're going to take the original, remove anything remotely threatening or messed up or fun about it, grind it up into bland G rated pablum and expect us to eat it. The original had kids swearing, reading Playboy, getting into trouble, and even getting into some scary situations that was a little more realistic than the bowdlerization that's inevitably going to result from this. I mean, gah. And even better, they have announced that filling Elisabeth Shue's big 80s hair shoes is Miss That's so Raven. Retch.
I'm really afraid I'm going to wake up one day and find that they're greenlighted a remake of The Goonies. Just imagine what sort of utter travesty THAT would be.
Dear Hollywood - stop eating the corpses of your forefathers in the hopes that grokking and cherishing them will magically rake in the money. It's not working. You are seriously insulting your target audience, which is blatently trying to tell you something with the fact that ticket sales have fallen drastically in the past couple of years. It's not because DVD is rendering the movie theater obsolete, you imbeciles, it's because you keep cranking out crap movies, 75% percent of which are pathetic remakes of or crap sequels to movies that in some way actually justify their weight in celluloid. For the love of all that's holy, hire some actual talent, go back to the drawing board and start making some MOVIES again. KThx. -- Andee
OMG. WTF. WHY?
Okay, please note that this has been one of my favorite movies since I was like 8. I could probably still dig out the Point Paperback novelization of it out from somewhere at The House. It's got that quintessential 80s charm, not to mention has Vincent D'Onofrio in a hilarious bit part that I'll bet he wished the world somehow missed.
But it's still a pretty blazingly awful movie (hence it now being a cult classic). Like a Chicago street gang would really be scared of lily white, pretty, young Elizabeth Shue just because she famously yells, "Don't fuck with the babysitter!" And now, they're remaking it. no. Disney is remaking it. IE, they're going to take the original, remove anything remotely threatening or messed up or fun about it, grind it up into bland G rated pablum and expect us to eat it. The original had kids swearing, reading Playboy, getting into trouble, and even getting into some scary situations that was a little more realistic than the bowdlerization that's inevitably going to result from this. I mean, gah. And even better, they have announced that filling Elisabeth Shue's big 80s hair shoes is Miss That's so Raven. Retch.
I'm really afraid I'm going to wake up one day and find that they're greenlighted a remake of The Goonies. Just imagine what sort of utter travesty THAT would be.
Dear Hollywood - stop eating the corpses of your forefathers in the hopes that grokking and cherishing them will magically rake in the money. It's not working. You are seriously insulting your target audience, which is blatently trying to tell you something with the fact that ticket sales have fallen drastically in the past couple of years. It's not because DVD is rendering the movie theater obsolete, you imbeciles, it's because you keep cranking out crap movies, 75% percent of which are pathetic remakes of or crap sequels to movies that in some way actually justify their weight in celluloid. For the love of all that's holy, hire some actual talent, go back to the drawing board and start making some MOVIES again. KThx. -- Andee
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Date: 2006-07-13 06:53 pm (UTC)::lipsincs:: "And then he kissed me...."
must rent movie now.
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Date: 2006-07-13 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-16 01:50 am (UTC)