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.
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.
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.
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.
Far From Heaven isn't actual a remake, more an homage, AFAIK.
Like the remake more than the original: Thomas Crowne Affair. GUH.
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.
The original had some great 60s elements
And also some wild Boston-shot scenes. I remember seeing random scenes on TV and going "wait a minute..." because one of the buildings is still very much prominently there, but a lot of the rest of the area is unrecognizable.
