'Serenity'
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.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three starts shooting later this year."What-what-what? They just did a remake of that, didn't they?
Okay, Google tells me the remake was in 1998. STILL.
And a remake of The Warriors is Clearly Wrong, but I would give them a special dispensation if it's done in the style of 300, because that would be HILARIOUS.
ETA: From now on all my paragraphs will end in ASSCAPS.
Flickering, painterly neon light as armed punks chase after a CGI bus in slow motion?
What movies are people looking forward to being released this year?
Stardust is my next-must see. I can't wait for it.
I'm very excited for Hairspray the Musical the Second Movie or whatever (is there anybody out there that's surprised?). Amanda Bynes is actually the casting I'm most excited about, because I adore her and think she will be hilarious in that role. Yes, she's very pretty, but she can do awkward well, which is what Penny is all about.
I don't know how I feel about Zac Efron. He's awful in High School Musical. But then, I'm not sure if he could possibly be good in that, so I don't actually know. We'll see.
Stardust! HP! Yay!
Now. Who's seen Xanadu? Because I haven't, but I'm going to see the mocking Broadway version soon!
I've not only seen it, I own the soundtrack.
I think that was one of the first albums I ever owned. That and Synchronicity.
What, I can't have layers?
I am brenda! Sweet!
I think that was one of the first albums I ever owned. That and Synchronicity.
What, I can't have layers?
I figure if I can like songs by ELO AND the Dead Kennedys that judging other people's taste is not something I should be trying to do, within reason.
Whitney Houston and her fans, though? They get the HOSTEL treatment, stat! (I figured that for Celine Dion fans that was too easy a sentence - they get the Italian cannibal movie treatment).
I got into a discussion with Jasmine (a friend at work) over how pretty the actress who first played Penny really was. Jasmine insists that she was a quite pretty girl who played awkward well and since we could not find any good pics of the original Penny on line I had to concede (since Jasmine saw the original Hairspray much more recently than I did). So now I'm back to being slightly annoyed at Edna's casting while still glad that a scientologist is wearing drag.
This is even worse: Tony Scott's LA-set revamp of that quintessential New York movie, The Warriors.
The Brits remade it a few years ago as The Purifiers, starring a certain former hobbit-turned-island-refugee. It's been shown on Encore Action channel a lot lately.