Production values are better, but the whole "Que sera sera" aspect might blow this theory.
Not a fan?
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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Polter-Cow - Nov 16, 2009 10:09:45 am PST #4990 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Nov 16, 2009 10:13:02 am PST #4991 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I preferred The Birdcage to La Cage Aux Folles.
::boggles::
I'm pretty sure The Birdcage is the original source of my abiding Robin Williams hatred. Even more than his hideous string of "sickly sad clown/robot/divorced dad/miscellaneous manboychild with a song in his heart and a wound in his soul" abominations. Nathan Lane was wonderful, and Calista Flockhart was surprisingly good in a tiny and mostly thankless role, but the entire rest of the movie was, to me, a bucket of meh. Except Williams, who was a bucket of STABKILLRAGE.
-t - Nov 16, 2009 10:19:35 am PST #4992 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Although the ending was pretty good.
It's definitely the best part, but it doesn't quite make the rest of the movie worthwhile, alas.
Vonnie K - Nov 16, 2009 10:31:03 am PST #4993 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven is gorgeous and beautifully acted, and I like that much better than the Douglas Sirk version, mostly owing to my complete inability to take Rock Hudson seriously as the flannel-wearing, Thoreau-quoting naturalist/lover.
Amy - Nov 16, 2009 10:32:45 am PST #4994 of 30000
Because books.
Uh, it's not exactly highbrow, but I really like Rob Zombie's take on Halloween. As a movie (with, like, actual plot and motivation, in so much as they are horror movie plot points), I like it a lot more than the original.
I heard the sequel was a big mess, though.
Atropa - Nov 16, 2009 10:36:15 am PST #4995 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm looking for instances where a movie remake is superior than the original
The Thing.
Little Shop Of Horrors.
Steph L. - Nov 16, 2009 10:38:46 am PST #4996 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Nathan Lane was wonderful, and Calista Flockhart was surprisingly good in a tiny and mostly thankless role, but the entire rest of the movie was, to me, a bucket of meh.
Hank Azaria!
Jesse - Nov 16, 2009 10:39:12 am PST #4997 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Far From Heaven isn't actual a remake, more an homage, AFAIK.
Steph L. - Nov 16, 2009 10:40:09 am PST #4998 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Like the remake more than the original: Thomas Crowne Affair. GUH.
megan walker - Nov 16, 2009 10:48:10 am PST #4999 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Like the remake more than the original: Thomas Crowne Affair. GUH.
Yeah. The original had some great 60s elements, but I loved the remake. Also, I liked Unfaithful better than La Femme infidèle.