Like any right-minded cheapskate, whenever there is a weekend preview for one of the movie channels, we TiVo all the movies for later viewing. This led to a HUGE MISTAKE. We watched "The Black Dahlia" last night and it was OMG so bad. Josh Hartnett seesm like he should be a movie star, with the heroic looks and the perfect body, but he is just so not interesting to watch. Scarlett J. seemed to be floundering--although she has the right body for '40s underwear. And let us not speak of Hilary Swank as an overly-arch Femme Fatale.
shudders at the recollection
The DH pointed out that is was one of those films where every single choice was the most obvious one. Like, if you go to a rich person's house, classical music will be playing. And not just any classical music, "Pachelbel's Canon."
My brain is fried and I have a dropdeadline in 1/2 hour. Can anyone think of a recent (2004-) American remake of a French film?
I can think of several, but none recent.
the '90s are thick with them. The most recent one I can think of so far is Just Visiting (Les Visiteurs) but that's 2001. German doesn't count, huh? (Mostly Martha) I'll keep thinking.
I just have a list of remakes in this book (pubbing 1/2009) that ends with Taxi (2004) and I was looking for a new one to add. I know there was talk of
The Strangers
being a remake but I can't get confirmation on that.
looky what I found imdb keyword search: remake of French film. Looks like there's one in 2007.
There's talk of "Anthony Zimmer", "36 Quai", and "Cache" being remade, but none are in production yet.
Yeah, Scrappy, that was pretty bad.
Sorry, Megan, I don't know much about French films.
