A reviewer on Amazon said it best. If you haven't seen the original, watch it before seeing the remake b/c all the remake will do is spoil the ending of the original, without giving you any of it's other great qualities.
Riley ,'Potential'
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Anchor Bay did a regular DVD and a boxed set (comes in a wooden box with scorch marks on it).
This is the one I have.
Wow, who would have known that the end of THGttG would make me cry! Huh.
Now, I want to go feed a dolpin.
It made me sniffle a little, I'll admit.
Ah, I'm just in a sniffly mood. Just started the Chronicles of Narnia and the scene with the kids at the train station had me tearing up out of sympathy. Must be something to do with the weather out, today. All gray and drippy.
Sail, I do that at every WWII kids on the train scenes--CoN, Five Children and It, Hope and Glory. Fucking hormones.
Oh, yeah, the curse of being a woman and at the mercy of prolactin.
What does Mike Judge have to do to get a movie released and marketed? He could stop making satires as merciless and spot-on as this one, for one thing. His second film in seven years, "Idiocracy," was completed nearly two years ago and dumped on Friday, reviewless and unmarketed, in six markets not including New York and San Francisco.
I will never see "The Wicker Man" because I read the reviews. But now I have to ask: *** Why would Cage's character be in a bear costume? The only thing I can come up with is that Cage lost some sort of bet with the director, refused to pay, and this was his punishment. I'm thinking that's not the official explanation though. ***
We saw The Illusionist tonight. It was beautiful done and well acted. My only problem with it was that I figured out the major plot twist halfway through. Has anyone else seen it yet?