The Parent Trap remake with Lindsay Lohan was much more fun and charming than the Freaky Friday remake, I thought. And yeah, I agree with P-C (I think he said it) that LL was a better "adult" than teen. And JLC was hilarious. But for a movie that was really quite short, it seemed to take a long time to get started...(my sister and I watched it off netflix on Monday)
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
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Jess M. - Sep 29, 2004 6:25:03 am PDT #4203 of 10001
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Dana - Sep 29, 2004 6:26:38 am PDT #4204 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Freaky Friday made a great plane movie, though. Much better than that awful movie with Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid that was so boring I've forgotten the name of it...Cold Creek Manor. For a movie that was supposed to be suspenseful and mysterious, it completely lacked suspense or mystery.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2004 6:27:11 am PDT #4205 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nova, I just now realised I put in the title of the wrong movie. Somehow I missed your post also correcting the award name.
What I meant to say -- JLC good, not great, LL really well done, still not great.
Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2004 6:35:43 am PDT #4206 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
See, I've heard all about how badly written The Da Vinci Code is, but that's criticism of the prose. It could still make a fun movie, right?
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2004 6:37:31 am PDT #4207 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, the plot's dumb too. There's no characterisation, the conflicts are hackneyed, and the solutions not challenging.
Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2004 6:42:37 am PDT #4208 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Do things blow up? I like when things blow up.
Nutty - Sep 29, 2004 6:42:47 am PDT #4209 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Freaky Friday made a great plane movie
I think that there are special qualities to being a good plane movie. Like, that silly time-travel movie with Paul Walker, Timeline, was a perfect airplane movie, because it was enthusiastically forward-moving without any complicated plot details to remember (or any logic to follow), and explosions and derring-do at the end. I probably would have hated it as a movie seen on the ground, but on an airplane, perfect.
Whereas, Master and Commander was extremely hard to follow when viewed on an airplane -- the screen was too small for me to see who was who sometimes, and the complexity of action was such that I had a hard time seeing what exactly was happening, despite having seen (and liked) the movie when seen on the ground.
I've heard all about how badly written The Da Vinci Code is, but that's criticism of the prose. It could still make a fun movie, right?
But P-C, haven't you ever read those airport novels that are basically just a movie script in novel format? Those can occasionally make good movies, depending on the acting and the director and whether the whole project winks towards its tawdry roots. Whereas, books that are irritating claptrap tend to make movies that are irritating claptrap, unless some wise soul just borrows the title and premise, and makes something else entirely out of it.
Anne W. - Sep 29, 2004 6:44:54 am PDT #4210 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Do things blow up?
Only my head at the utter injustice of this thing being a best-seller.
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2004 6:46:21 am PDT #4211 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mel Brooks is working on a sequel to Spaceballs.
I'm meh on this - I didn't think the original was all that great.
lisah - Sep 29, 2004 6:49:28 am PDT #4212 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I had a film professor tell me that there have never been any great movies based on great books. There are only great or good movies based on mediocre or bad books, mediocre or bad movies based on great or good books, or bad movies made out of bad books.
One of his prime examples was Gone with the Wind. Good movie/mediocre book.
Of course it is all terribly subjective but interesting to think about.