Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

I live across the street (literally) from a 20 screen (plus IMAX) multiplex.

I'm sitting here a little bit bored. My Netflix movies aren't appealing at the moment so I figure "might as well walk across the street, they must be showing some second- or third-choice movie that I can sit in the dark for.

Remember, 21 screens.

Right now on these 21 screens they are showing The Chronicles of Narnia on 5 screens. Indiana Jones on 6 screens. Iron Man 4 screens. Speed Racer on 3 screens. What Happens in Vegas and Made of Honor each get a screen and then Harold & Kumar, Baby Mama, and Sarah Marshall are all sharing the last screen.


21 screens and 18 of them are dedicated to four movies. How annoying.

[€uroMeinke]

I believe this is how the 500 channels of cable TV panned out too

[innerSpaceman]

I don't think Multi-Plexes were designed to offer a wide selection of films to suit any taste, but rather a wide-selection of showtimes to suit any schedule.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Noooooooooo!
It's really happening!
The Women remake
There are production stills and everything!
Noooo! I'm melting... what a world what a world....

Augh..................


Eva Mendes ... Crystal Allen
Meg Ryan ... Mary Haines - WTF? I'm sorry, not acceptable casting to me UGH
Carrie Fisher ... Nancy Blake - Okay
Candice Bergen ... Catherine Frazier
Jada Pinkett Smith ... Miriam Aarons
Debra Messing ... Edith Potter
Annette Bening ... Sylvia Fowler - Okay
Bette Midler ... Flora DeLave - She'll be a hoot, not Mary Boland, but still a hoot
Cloris Leachman ... Maggie - See above and sub Marjorie Main for Mary Boland
Debi Mazar ... Olga
Keegan Connor Tracy ... Dolly Dupuyster
Joanna Gleason ... Barbara Delacorte - I love Joanna Gleason

WHO will do the clothes? I do not know who the listed wardrobe guy is.

Augh! I will go see it, of course, but AUGH just the same.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

WHO will do the clothes? I do not know who the listed wardrobe guy is.

He has a fairly decent list of costumes under his belt including some great retro productions: Mad Men, Factory Girl, Notorious Bettie Page. I have no idea what time frame this remake will be set in.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Seems present-day, from the gallery of botox horrors.

[Gemini Cricket]

Using Snowflake's list:

Eva Mendes ... Crystal Allen - no idea who EM is...
Meg Ryan ... Mary Haines - WTF X2. Meg Ryan... she's all gums when she smiles. Can't stand her.
Carrie Fisher ... Nancy Blake - I actally like this casting. It could have been Lilly Tomlin, too.
Candice Bergen ... Catherine Frazier - Who the heck is Catherine Frazier?
Jada Pinkett Smith ... Miriam Aarons - No. JPS looks like she's mad all the time. Miriam should have been someone hotter and nicer.
Debra Messing ... Edith Potter - Really?! No no no no. Edith should have been played by someone feisty who can act.
Annette Bening ... Sylvia Fowler - Foul indeed. UGH! Can't stand Bening. I only liked her in American Beauty. We'll see what she does wit this cherry of a role.
Bette Midler ... Flora DeLave - That could work... But Every movie that Midler had been in lately has tanked. She's bad luck or something.
Cloris Leachman ... Maggie - I love her.
Debi Mazar ... Olga - I could see that.
Keegan Connor Tracy ... Dolly Dupuyster - No idea.
Joanna Gleason ... Barbara Delacorte - Not sure who she is...


All of this makes me sad. But at least the original is still there for all of us to enjoy.

More to add...

I just looked at the pictures.
Canoes?!

And Dianne English has never directed before. Can she do it?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I don't think Multi-Plexes were designed to offer a wide selection of films to suit any taste, but rather a wide-selection of showtimes to suit any schedule.

True, and I understand why they do it (and how the changing technology behind the scenes allows for it).

Doesn't make it any less annoying.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Using Snowflake's list:
Carrie Fisher ... Nancy Blake - I actally like this casting. It could have been Lilly Tomlin, too.
Bette Midler ... Flora DeLave - That could work... But Every movie that Midler had been in lately has tanked. She's bad luck or something.

Okay, I wish I'd thought of Lily Tomlin. My God, why isn't she in this? She'd work as Nancy.

Bette can be so over the top, but I think she'll be funny as hell as the Countess.

I'd better bone up on the play now, GC! ;-)

[Alex]

I wonder if Charlie Kaufman actually wants people to see his new movie. I suspect a fair number of people will avoid it just because of its title:

Synecdoche, New York

First, the title is a bit of a pun/play of words off of Schenectady, New York. Second synecdoche is a word that 99% won't know the meaning of (I knew, but wasn't confident enough that I was right so looked it up anyway). And of the 1% of people who know what it means, half of them probably won't know how to pronounce it.