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The Horror! MTV Plans 'Rocky Horror' Remake

Wed, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:16 GMT

posted by bigpicture
I'm repeating myself to regular Big Picture readers, but if you're new, here's how we address remakes: There are basically three categories - Yes, No, and Why the Hell Not?

The remakes in the Yes category are either bad movies to begin with, or elements about them are bad, or they've dropped out of the contemporary lexicon and managed to work their way back into relevance. The No category is self-evident; some movies you just don't touch, and the list of reasons why can be very short or incredibly long, but in the final analysis, there's nothing to be gained by doing it. The third category is tricky. For example, I don't see anything wrong with remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still because it's almost 60 years old and contemporary audiences can't buy the "effects" in the original. I don't even believe you can compare the two, frankly. Others feel very strongly about not remaking that film.

I feel very strongly about not remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jesus Christ, why? The ultimate midnight camp movie extravaganza...and you're going to, what, make it hip and now? This news does not make me shiver me with antici...pation. Clearly, the suits who made that decision don't know anything about movie fans or, for that matter, rock n' roll.

Who are those suits? Ironically enough, it's the brain trust at MTV. Even weirder, Lou Adler, the odd-looking gentleman to Jack Nicholson's left at Lakers games and an executive producer of the original film, is teaming up with MTV and Fox on the remake. It's not the worst decision Lou Adler's ever made, though; he did spawn Cisco Adler, after all.

The announcement, covered by Variety, doesn't indicate whether MTV will broadcast the remake or distribute it through their film division, although Adler says, "I'd like to see it shown a year from this coming Halloween, but that's up to MTV," which sounds a lot more like a television movie than a feature film.

I'm just shaking my head over this, both out of confusion and sadness. The very worst thing you can do to The Rocky Horror Movie Show is make it more palatable to a wide audience. It's specifically made to be out of the ordinary, and now Dr. Frank N. Furter will apply a new coat of make-up for all the world to see. In fact, this may be the worst idea I've heard for a remake since the rumor that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez would re-do Casablanca.

You know why you don't remake Rocky Horror? For the same goddamn reason you don't remake Star Wars or Gone With the Wind: It's a phenomenon completely unto itself, an event unlike any other in its original version, and you'll dirty it up and tarnish it by performing such a disservice. Here's the thing: I don't especially love Rocky Horror. I mean, it's fun once or twice, the music's easily the best thing about it, and the acting and filmmaking is pretty low-grade on the whole. But that's what makes it the movie it is.

I will make one suggestion: Vince Vaughn as Frank N. Furter. Why? Simple: He's already remade Norman Bates, so it's best to keep these remarkably boneheaded remakes from spreading throughout Hollywood. Quick, someone call Anne Heche about playing Janet.

'Ant-Man' Taking a Holiday?

Tue, 23 Jul 2008 07:55:03 GMT

posted by bigpicture
There's an update on Edgar Wright's upcoming superhero movie, Ant-Man, and it involves waiting a little longer.

The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog says that Wright told a crowd at the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival that rather than compete with Marvel's big summer releases in 2010 - Iron Man 2 and Thor - that Ant-Man may be Marvel's first winter release. Even though Marvel is a swing for the fences kind of company that covets summer releases, Ant-Man is, as Risky Business points out, less of a known quantity. It probably stands to reason that they'd want to release the first one with the training wheels on. A good comparison might be Hellboy, which did well in Spring, gained a loyal following over a couple of years on video, and wound up opening as a number one movie earlier this month.

Wright says that he's working on his second draft of the Ant-Man script but that Universal wants his Scott Pilgrim vs. the World pronto, meaning production is a long way off for Ant-Man, another reason the middle of 2010 might not be realistic.

Speaking of not being realistic, we briefly discussed last week how the technology has not quite caught up to the imagination of superhero authors and artists. We were talking about a rumored Plastic Man movie at that time, but I think both Ant-Man and the aforementioned Thor could face some major CGI hurdles. Ant-Man, for example, is exactly what you think he is, if you're unfamiliar with the story. And Thor could work, so long as they don't try to recreate Asgard. Hard to see that coming to life on screen since it's basically a city in the middle of space with a rainbow bridge leading to it. I'm also not in love with any of the rumored names for the lead role, but that's another story altogether.

Marvel faced this CGI dilemma last year with Galactus in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In the comic, he's an enormous guy in magenta armor. In the movie, he's a shapeless galactic dust devil. And even that didn't look very good. I mean, they still can't get the Hulk exactly right.

So I would imagine that even after Wright is happy with the script, there's a challenge of how to make a guy the size of an insect look real enough on screen. No matter how good the story might be in the comic, and no matter what Wright can do with the script, to me, this is still the major question mark. And more time can only help solve that question.

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Fri, 5 Jul 2008 17:51:00 GMT

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Love Guru & Hancock Movie Reviews

Sun, 7 Jul 2008 17:39:00 GMT

posted by callmekelly
I don't know what to think of this movie. It comes off as a comedy in the previews, but it takes a strange and unexpected turn. I say unexpected, but the truth is I don't know what I did think would happen in the movie. I guess I just thought maybe I'd get some laughs out of it. The previews show the funniest parts though so don't go if that's what you're wanting. Again, I don't know what to tell you is a good reason for seeing it. It's not that it's bad, just different.

I'm a huge Mike Myers fan and so I had high hopes but I was left very disappointed. First of all, I'm sick of Verne Troyer. Second, I could have done without Jessica Alba as well. That aside, I thought the jokes were unnecessarily dirty and redundant.

It's too bad because I think the character is a good one and I know Mike Myers can do much better. It won't stop me from seeing his films to come but let's just hope this was a fluke.

Actors Guaranteed to Ruin Your Transatlantic Flight!

Tue, 11 Jun 2008 11:15:00 GMT

posted by thesharkguys
As a captive audience for PS I Love You recently, and not the kind of captive audience that could at least interrupt the middling fare by shanking the warden, it seems there are certain actors whose films are more likely to be shown on commercial flights than others.

Unlike a typical movie theater audience, for whom dozing off would be a common, though unintended outcome for many of these movies, in-flight screenings are to 300 plus worn out travelers, who'd rather be sleeping before the rolling of either the opening credits or the drinks cart.

Like trains before them, the first commercial flights were long ago associated with all the glamor and prestige of a champagne and orange juice breakfast rather than today when they're more commonly linked to microwavable butter chicken/unidentifiable protein plastic tray repasts.

These days, unless you're in first class, where cherries dipped in Belgian chocolate are dangled into eager mouths, you're more likely to encounter nose-hair singeing B.O. re-circulated throughout the cabin, howling infants who due to FAA restrictions unfortunately cannot be stowed in overhead compartments and limits on how many rum & Cokes can be downed before a stern reprimand and a dip into that duty free gin.

The in-flight movie is meant to be a two-hour diversion from such unpleasantness, not to mention the strain of patella bones jammed into eye sockets with the impromptu reclining of the seat in front, whose occupant then goes on to remove their socks, an apt sensory accompaniment to the on-screen 'entertainment'.

The problem is, these bottom-feeding MOR vehicles don't dare offend anyone, so what the weary traveler is left with, are some of the films listed here.

In PS I Love You, shown on a recent Amsterdam to Toronto flight and mercifully, not the reverse as well, or else the integrity of the cabin door would've been tested for a quick exit into space, either Jennifer Garner or Hilary Swank portray a woman haunted by posthumous letters left by her husband.
[Editor's note: it's very likely Swank and Garner are the same person, though confirmatory calls to her/their agent have gone unreturned]

These dispatches, carefully prepared by the hubbie while he knew he'd be dispatched to that great, big, airplane hangar in the sky, were designed ostensibly to help her 'get on with her life'. This, despite what is obvious to everyone else on screen, the cockpit crew, your seat-mate who is drooling like a bull mastiff and anyone who's stowed luggage under their seats--- that it is in fact doing the exact opposite, and is undeniably creepy.

Here is a list of the top actors in Hollywood who are most likely to make you wish you'd remembered to pack a sleep mask, or decided against that Tampa time-share.

Perennial 30-something slacker, Matthew McConaughey has a film resume peppered with in-flight staples (Fool's Gold, Failure to Launch, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Sahara), films so lengthy and wretched, you'd wish Air France would re-commission the Concorde to make that transatlantic trip in 3 hours, long enough to ensure that once meals are served, complimentary peanuts doled out, and supersonic gas fumes inhaled, there wouldn't be time left to take in any of his rotten oeuvre.

Sandra Bullock. On a trip to Milan, Italy several years back, I was initiated into a select fraternity: not the Freemasons, which would've meant bypassing the lineups in the country's finest museums and voting in their election, but along with several hundred or so of my fellow passengers, we were forced to sit through Miss Congeniality, not once, but twice. In this ostensible comedy, which guffaw for guffaw, easily matched that of the Asian tsunami disaster, Bullock plays an FBI agent who, to thwart a bombing, must go undercover in a beauty pageant despite being old enough to have given birth to all the contestants. Her latest work, 'All About Steve' is currently in post-production, and judging by the title alone, you'll be treated to it on that trip to Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle sometime next year.

Kirsten Dunst. Though still quite young, the fanged blonde has a lengthy career in commercial aviation-related entertainment ahead of her, having shown great potential in Bring it On, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and of course, Spider Man I and II.

Owen Wilson earned his wings in several charter-ready flicks, including the extraordinarily unwatchable Drillbit Taylor, The Darjeeling Limited, You, Me and Dupree, Starsky & Hutch, Night at the Museum.

Ryan Reynolds has a crappy in-flight movie resume longer than the runway for the new Airbus A380, with Definitely Maybe, The In-Laws, Chaos Theory and Just Friends. Apropos of nothing, he was once engaged to the ironically talented Alanis (Why the long face?) Morissette.

Kate Hudson. Since giving a decent accounting of herself in the Cameron Crowe period piece Almost Famous, the offspring of Goldie Hawn and somebody almost famous named Hudson, has rung up a string of flicks that have been shown while cruising at 30,000 feet. These include How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Alex & Emma, Le Divorce, Raising Helen, You, Me and Dupree and Fool's Gold. Her place in this list will be solidified well into 2010 with the filming of Bride Wars and My Best Friend's Girl (currently in post production), flicks that passengers will comfortably doze through shortly, barring any kind of heavy turbulence or hijacking threats.

Dermot Mulroney. With Griffin & Phoenix, The Family Stone, Must Love Dogs and the Wedding Date under his belt, Mulroney is a shoe-in for the world of fixed wing propulsive thrust cinema.

Robin Williams. Unlike leg-warmers and hairspray, the hirsute Williams' coke-fueled 'humor' has not seen a resurgence in popularity from the 80s. The guy responsible for not only writing the book on family-friendly, barely serviceable comedy, but penning the foreword and editing it as well, RW has added to the dreariness of modern flight with RV, Man of the Year, Night at the Museum, License to Wed, Patch Adams, Goodwill Hunting, Mrs Doubtfire, Toys, Hook, Awakenings, and Dead Poets Society.

Hugh Grant. The undisputed king, the Sovereign of the Skies and the only member of this list, whose each and every film could upset stomachs between in-flight meals.