How do you remake a Stanley Donen directed, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn acted classic? And give it to frelling Jonathan "Silence of the Lambs" Demme for Christ's sake?
Uhm. Because the major Hollywood studios are getting less and less willing to take a flyer on a previously-untested comment, and therefore are doing TV-show-based, comic-based, popular-book-based, and remake-of-old-movie flicks in gerater and greater numbers, the last couple years?
I saw the preview in the theater the other day for it. I wanted to choke someone. Charade is one of my ALL TIME favorite movies...it's up there with Aliens and So I Married an Axe Murderer. No one...ABSOLUTELY NO ONE can play Cary Grant's character, but Cary Grant...and being that he's dead...and HARDLY see how Marky Mark Wahlberg is going to carry the part. *sigh* Stupid movie execs.
And come on. I love Thandie Newton, but she's no Audrey Hepburn. I got a sinking feeling about the trailer from the first frames when she walked into that empty apartment asking for "Charles" and when the cop starts tossing passports at her I started to shake with fear. It looks like they're dealing with it like a thriller more than as the light-hearted romantic/suspense Hitchcockian tribute the original was. And Tim Robbins in the Walter Matthau role? With no James Coburn? I want to puke. I will cradle my Criterion DVD of the movie tonight, cursing Hollywood's name.
I guess when the movie execs decided to redo Ocean's Eleven, and the profit was such a good return...they figured hey! it worked for that one... why not this one? Of course, they seem to have disregarded the fact that the choices of people for Ocean's Eleven were MUCH better...but even the new improved Ocean's Eleven is NOT the original Rat Pack feel.
I loved the new Ocean's Eleven because aside from the fact that it involved robbing casinos and Vegas, it was a completely different story. It didn't start the same way, it didn't progress the same way, hell, it didn't even end the same way. It had a style all its own, and if remakes have to be done, that's the way it should be done - a completely new take on the concept. You know, if you're still around when I shift to the Atlanta area, we definitely need to do movies just to be able to bitch about them like this.
Movies with THE cutest KhaOS in the world!!! COUNT ME IN!!! Yeah, I agree about Ocean's Eleven. The new one had the ending I really wanted the first one to have. But as my mother put it, "They didn't let the bad guys win then."
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Do I have to go beat people????
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(knocking on wood, just in case)