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themanintheseersuckersuit · #1 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:39 am

Just go home, cut off the tv and and the internet, do not read this link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

Rexer25 · #2 Post by **Rexer25** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:45 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Just go home, cut off the tv and and the internet, do not read this link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

I wish you would have warned me as well. I am definitely queasy now.

Alan__Smithee__ · #3 Post by **Alan__Smithee__** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:48 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Just go home, cut off the tv and and the internet, do not read this link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

You know, I have heard of this project, through the grapevine doncha know, but now I think that I will definitely get a director's credit for it.

Unless she gets her useless husband to get credit for her work.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #4 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:04 am

I can't imagine that anyone would let her make this movie.

silverscreenselect · #5 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:05 am

Too late. I looked.

There actually were two TV versions of Casablanca. The first was in 1955 as part of a rotating series called Warner Brothers Presents. The show was hosted by Gig Young and featured Charles MacGraw, a familiar B-move actor as Rick and dealt mostly with his espionage efforts. That series lasted a few episodes. Apparently, a good bit of each hour was devoted to promoting upcoming Warner Brothers theatrical movies. One of the other segments of Warner Brothers Presents was Cheyenne with Clint Walker, which then appeared on its own for several seasons, occasionally packaged with some other Westerns. The pilot episode for this series is available on the Casablanca Two Disc DVD.

The second TV version was in 1983 and featured David Soul as Rick and Scatman Crothers as Sam. It was set somewhat prior to the events in the movie and was critically derided. It only lasted a couple of episodes, although apparently several more episodes were filmed and may show up on video someday. The show actually won an Emmy for the cinematography of one of its episodes.

As for Madonna's, ahem, effort, she must really feel the need to add to her Razzie collection. This one seems to be a slam dunk for prime Razzie consideration.

wintergreen48 · #6 Post by **wintergreen48** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:20 am

Oh. My. God.

If this ever happens-- if the greatest movie ever made is Madonnalated-- someone, anyone, please kill me.

Rexer25 · #7 Post by **Rexer25** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:22 am

A quote from tmitsss' link:

If you watch this remake, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Spock · #8 Post by **Spock** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:29 am

wintergreen48 wrote:Oh. My. God.

If this ever happens-- if the greatest movie ever made is Madonnalated-- someone, anyone, please kill me.

You mean they are remaking Breaker Morant!!! Oh never mind-I see they are re-making the SECOND greatest movie ever made.

Flybrick · #9 Post by **Flybrick** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:36 am

You mean they are remaking Breaker Morant!!! Oh never mind-I see they are re-making the SECOND greatest movie ever made.

Wasn't that the surfer movie where Keanu Reeves played an FBI agent in love with/hated Patrick Swayze?

I keed, I keed.......................

Spock · #10 Post by **Spock** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:55 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Just go home, cut off the tv and and the internet, do not read this link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

I have never watched much movie commentary-but a while back I was getting into it for a few movies that I really liked. Then I listened to Ebert's commentary on my Casablanca movie and I decided to avoid for most movies. The commentary detracted from my ability to enjoy the movie long-term and I have not watched commentary since.

silverscreenselect · #11 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:40 am

Spock wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Just go home, cut off the tv and and the internet, do not read this link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773
I have never watched much movie commentary-but a while back I was getting into it for a few movies that I really liked. Then I listened to Ebert's commentary on my Casablanca movie and I decided to avoid for most movies. The commentary detracted from my ability to enjoy the movie long-term and I have not watched commentary since.

Doing a good commentary is tough. A lot of them turn out to be puff pieces in which the star or director spend the entire commentary patting themselves on the back and congratulating everyone who had anything to do with the film and saying what a great person he or she is. Other times actors or directors apparently bear grudges against producers and studios for "butchering" movies and turn the commentary into a lengthy rant on the subject.

I've found that critics and film historians, who often do commentary on older films (since no one involved with the film is actually around) often err on the side of making their commentary too basic. I remember one commentary about the thriller The Quiller Memorandum (set in Berlin in the early 1960's) in which a film historian spent about fifteen minutes talking about the cold war and divided Germany in terms that assumed that everyone listening had absolutely no idea these events actually occurred and needed a basic primer.

The best commentaries expound on the film. They point out things that aren't immediately obvious, such as how a director sets up a scene and how the manner in which it's edited or photographed plays into the audience reaction or how they do some stunts to make them seem realistic. Films in which actors or directors reminisce about other things they've done are also entertaining well. I find that I will usually watch a movie and then watch it a second time with commentary a couple of weeks later rather than immediately and it seems to work best.

VAdame · #12 Post by **VAdame** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:54 am

Hmmmmmm......won't she have to at least change the name of the film (since, y'know, Casablanca is nowhere near Iraq???!!)

silvercamaro · #13 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:57 am

VAdame wrote:Hmmmmmm......won't she have to at least change the name of the film (since, y'know, Casablanca is nowhere near Iraq???!!)

I suggest "Desperately Seeking Attention."

franktangredi · #14 Post by **franktangredi** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:09 am

Well, Pamela Anderson already remade Casablanca -- unofficially. And at least Madonna wants to be Bergman. Anderson took on Bogie's role!

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #15 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:03 am

Flybrick wrote:

You mean they are remaking Breaker Morant!!! Oh never mind-I see they are re-making the SECOND greatest movie ever made.
Wasn't that the surfer movie where Keanu Reeves played an FBI agent in love with/hated Patrick Swayze?

I keed, I keed.......................

That's Point Break.

silverscreenselect · #16 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:49 am

Spock wrote:
wintergreen48 wrote:Oh. My. God.

If this ever happens-- if the greatest movie ever made is Madonnalated-- someone, anyone, please kill me.
You mean they are remaking Breaker Morant!!! Oh never mind-I see they are re-making the SECOND greatest movie ever made.

Breaker Morant was OK, but I much preferred the sequel:

Breaker Morant 2 Electric Boogaloo

ToLiveIsToFly · #17 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:54 am

Just to pile on:
Here is a list of OTHER movies that are supposedly in the remake pipeline. Most of them I'm pretty indifferent to, but The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3?

silverscreenselect · #18 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:03 am

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:Just to pile on:
Here is a list of OTHER movies that are supposedly in the remake pipeline. Most of them I'm pretty indifferent to, but The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3?

I like Pelham 123 and a remake with Scott, Washington, and Travolta (I assume as the villain) has a lot of potential unless they go over the top with action sequences. This is more of a thinking thriller than an action film.

Of the others on the list, I have only one comment Death Wish with Sylvester Stallone... Why? Why? Why? on so many levels Why?

Next up he will remake Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, only with himself as Mom.

megaaddict · #19 Post by **megaaddict** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:05 am

This is a great target for humor. For those who couldn't stomach the entire article, these gems were mentioned at the end. I'll bet the bored could come up with more.

Of all the Kabbalah meetings in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Here's looking at you, kid. Now who do we have to pay to adopt him?

We'll always have Basra... I think this is the beginning of a beautiful fitness regime...

I stick my neck out for nobody - just in case they see the wrinkles.

It doesn't take much to see that Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction arsenal didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

If you watch this remake, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Maybe she could make it into a musical with numbers such as,

Don't Cry For Me, Humphrey Bogart

Shock and Awe Bonita

Dubya, Don't Preach

WWTBAM Bored

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