December 20th, 2007
Another pointless remake…
There seems to be no end to Hollywood’s lazy recycling. The slew of pointless film remakes on the horizon continues. Next up: Pretty Woman. It’s bad enough that it was cringy and patronising first time around, but now Jessica Simpson wants the Julia Roberts role.
I’m with Medbh who asks: “Do we really need to revisit that grand fairy tale of the patriarchy wherein all women are whores who can be bought for sex or marriage?”
No. No we don’t. And while we’re at it, we only like watching Jason Alexander in Seinfeld, not playing letchy creeps. The film has more gender stereotypes (on both sides) than you can shake a phallic stick at.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
hey sinead, Happy Christmas to you and yours. From me and mine. Linda.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
How dare you make fun of Julia Robert’s finest moment. I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more… Who plays the dashing whoremonger?
December 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Morgan, by “dashing whoremonger” you surely don’t mean Richard Gere? Yikes! He’s almost as creepy Jason Alexander’s character in it. Letches of a feather, etc.
I believe Pretty Woman has a huge gay following. It must be the “some day my prince will come” stuff.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Cheers, Sinead. Thanks for the link.
Shirley MacLaine has that great line where she said that the Best Actress Oscar always goes to the hooker, victim, or doormat. Julia’s all three in this dreck.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Sinéad, I knew there was a gay man within me, just waiting to be loved.
How about this exchange for genius:
Richard Gere: “I never treated you like a whore.”
Julia Roberts: “You just did.”
December 21st, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I’m up for a remake as long as they set it in the same year so we get to see that absolutely MASSIVE mobile phone he pulls out of his briefcase.
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Ah Sinéad, how can you not like Pretty Woman?
Oh wait…it’s shit!
Richard Gere sleepwalking his way through another suffocatingly bland performance. Though who could resist his lifeless tiny little eyes? Apart from everyone of course.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Forgetting about the awful film itself, surely there’s some kind of law against remaking movies that aren’t even old enough to buy a beer for themselves?
Next after this, a remake of Little Miss Sunshine, only this time they’ll make it better by putting well known actors in the various roles. I hear Katie Holmes is pitching herself for the part of ‘Olive’.
Then they’re going to remake the as-yet-unmade remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still.