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A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 5:27:28 pm PDT #270 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I just saw the new Manchurian Candidate, and it didn't suck at all. The way the storytelling's been updated from Cold War paranoia to War On Terror paranoia is very successful, I think. And Meryl Streep is just amazing. She has by far the most difficult role, and she just nails it.

I'm curious to see what the varying reactions will be, from both fans of the original and people coming to the story new. I found it very difficult to judge the pacing, because I wasn't waiting to find out what would happen. I was waiting to find out what would happen differently, and so there were sections in the middle where I wanted the story to just unfold already. But it's possible someone who didn't know the original movie wouldn't have felt that way.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 5:30:47 pm PDT #271 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Jess, whitefont if you have to, but I'm really curious - how do they justify the title?

Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 5:33:57 pm PDT #272 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, and I'm also curious - did you see/what did you think about Truth About Charlie? I rather liked it myself, and thought the original was far LESS sacrosanct from remake than TMC (although maybe it's the casting of CHARADE that had people resenting the remake).

Scrappy - Jul 12, 2004 5:35:22 pm PDT #273 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Jess, do they keep the creepy incest-yay vibe?

Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 5:37:46 pm PDT #274 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Well (waves goodbye to film cred once again), I've never seen Charade. So I liked The Truth About Charlie, but since I wasn't mentally comparing it with the original, the answer to your question is Not Applicable.

The title of the remade Candidate refers to Manchurian Global, a bigass eeeeeeevil multinational corporation.

(Not much of a spoiler -- it's mentioned within the first five or ten minutes of the film.)

[eta: Robin, yes. Hell yes, in fact.]

P.M. Marc - Jul 12, 2004 5:38:48 pm PDT #275 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Robin, I love that you asked what I was going to ask.

bon bon - Jul 12, 2004 6:44:25 pm PDT #276 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I didn't see the original Manchurian Candidate, but I am stoked for my boyfried Liev. I love you Liev.

§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 6:49:48 pm PDT #277 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

::comforts James Franco::

Vonnie K - Jul 12, 2004 6:54:21 pm PDT #278 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Yay for the creepy incest vibe!

What?

Lawrence Harvey killed me in the original, especially in the scene where he had to kill the senator and the daughter/his fiancée. Liev Schreiber is a hella interesting choice for Shaw though. I'm glad the remake doesn't suck.

The movie that never fails to scare the living daylights out of me: Carnival of Souls. Even to this day, I have trouble looking out at windows at night, afraid I'll see that ghastly white face. Plus, organ music = cree. pee.

bon bon - Jul 12, 2004 7:01:12 pm PDT #279 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

::comforts James Franco::

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