Quick, someone go see The Island and tell me if it's worth going to. Of course, who am I kidding? I'll see it just for Scarlett Johansson.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
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Eddie - Jul 23, 2005 7:05:08 am PDT #5958 of 10002
Your tag here.
Glamcookie - Jul 23, 2005 7:40:16 am PDT #5959 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Should I see March of the Penguins or Happy Endings today?
tommyrot - Jul 23, 2005 7:45:25 am PDT #5960 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Should I see March of the Penguins or Happy Endings today?
If only they'd combined the two... a movie about a penguin masseuse.
ION: The similaritites between The Island and the 1970s movie Parts: The Clonus Horror (which was shown on MST:3K): [link]
They have the exact same plot.
The Internet Movie Database is considered the definitive source for information about films. On the IMDb's page for The Island, if you click "Movie Connections", it even says "Remake of 'Clonus' (1979)", and if you click on "Movie Connections" for Clonus, it says "Remade as 'The Island' (2005)".
Yet, amazingly, the original makers of Clonus (director Robert S. Fiveson, producer Myrl A. Schreibman, and screenwriters Bob Sullivan and Ron Smith) have been completely shut out, receiving no credit, no compensation, no anything. And that includes never being asked if it could be remade.
Do you need permission to remake a movie? If you remake a movie, do you need to credit the creators of the original?
DavidS - Jul 23, 2005 7:48:57 am PDT #5961 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think you mean Frank Capra, Hec.
D'oh. But yeah, Cassavetes and Seymour Cassell.
Mr. Broom - Jul 23, 2005 7:51:32 am PDT #5962 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Holy crap, the plot is the same as Parts: the Clonus Horror. I hadn't even thought of that film. MST3K did that one up right proper. Even now I can't see Peter Graves in anything without inserting as many, "...on 'Biography'!"s as possible.
Fiona - Jul 23, 2005 9:35:41 am PDT #5963 of 10002
Divine and John Waters.
Atropa - Jul 23, 2005 9:40:04 am PDT #5964 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Have you noticed that there's a council of goths running Warner Brothers?
That's because we're everywhere, duh.
candyb - Jul 23, 2005 9:40:13 am PDT #5965 of 10002
John Woo and Chow Yun Fat
Wong Kar Wai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
DavidS - Jul 23, 2005 9:40:52 am PDT #5966 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Divine and John Waters.
Oooh, good one. And I think they did five or six movies.
Maysa - Jul 23, 2005 9:44:40 am PDT #5967 of 10002
Wong Kar Wai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
I was just going to mention that pairing!
I saw 2046 the other night. Interesting movie, nowhere near as good as In the Mood for Love or Days of Being Wild, but really interesting all the same. I lost track of all the music cue, shot, and character moment call-backs to those earlier two films.