September 03, 2005

Jessica Alba's A** in "I Dream of Jeannie" Remake? The lovely Miss Alba's posterior is discussed, as are the rumors that she may appearin a "I Dream of Jeannie" remake. Yes, master.
posted by brothermose 18 years ago
  • Huh.
  • Oh for the love of all that is holy and right in the universe stop the fucking remakes.
  • They're doing 'The Poseidon Adventure' again, too.
  • Sweet Ernest Borgnine's posterior, no!
  • Chyren: Movie Insider's Full Listing of Upcoming Movie remakes and movies in production. It is 7 pages long...
  • They wouldn't really, would they? Not and put Kurt Russell in it? They would.
  • I'm not sure Peter Jackson's King Kong belongs on that list, since it is technically a reremake.
  • Alba better thank God every day that so many seem to find her pretty because she is quite possibly the least talented actress EVAR...
  • /stifles the sudden urge to make a really tasteless suggestion involving a remake of The Towering Inferno
  • I actually am looking forward to 30 or so years from now when someone remakes Star Wars.
  • >I actually am looking forward to 30 or so years from now when someone remakes Star Wars. Do you think Lucas will wait that long?
  • Yes. I think that he would be terrified at the prospect of someone doing it better than he did.
  • So many of the original movies listed shouldn't have been made in the first place. The movie industry must be quite desperate to keep working - maybe they're afraid they'll be outsourced to Bollywood. And many of the ones that were popular in the original, were so schlocky (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The House of Wax, and Love at First Bite, for example) that it's hard to see how they would update them, so will they be exact remakes? If so, couldn't they just show the originals in threaters without going to all the trouble? I've thought that the remakes of Dracula were far less scary than the Bela Lugosi version. Others, though, were really good movies in the original. I'd be curious to see how they twisted Fun with Dick and Jane, for example, since the original relied on the "sexual revolution" for its interest. What's so verboten these days that you could do a sex comedy about it? I think it would be hard to do a comedy about goetse. Others which I hope they don't screw around with are All the King's Men, Lavender Hill Mob, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Manchurian Candidate, The Secret Life of Walter Middy, Sunset Boulevard, and Strangers on a Train. Though, I think about how well Eastwood took the Shane story and made it entrancing in a different setting. So, maybe if there are really creative folks working on the good ones, they'll be as successful. I hope so.
  • I'd like to second Chyren on this, and add that the news re the poseidon adventure hits home for me. of all the disaster movies I love that is the one I grew up with goddam it!!!
  • "Others which I hope they don't screw around with are ... The Manchurian Candidate..." Too late.
  • path -- Manchurian Candidate came out last year (I liked it -- I never saw the original and I believe that they changed this one substantially) and Sunset Boulevard is going to be a musical.
  • Fucker.
  • Fucker. They're remaking that?
  • Sunset Boulevard is going to be a musical. Has already been a musical for a few years now, plagued with Lloyd Weber's fickle taste in leading actresses. Idiot got sued at least twice for firing the lead actress.
  • Never seen or heard of the original, but the new Fun with Dick and Jane is about a white collar couple that makes a living doing stickups and gunpoint robberies.
  • Alnedra -- The original Sunset Boulevard was not a musical. So the new one is more an adaptation of the musical than it is a remake of the original.
  • Ah, so it's gonna be a film musical? Interesting. I liked some of the songs but felt the musical overall was very weak.
  • OOps! I mixed Fun With Dick and Jane with Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.
  • path, if they remade that, it'd have to be Bob and Carol and Batman and Rover.
  • I'm a big fan of the original Manchurian Candidate and was pretty skeptical about the remake, but they actually did it superbly--they kept the spirit of the original and many of the same plot points, but they managed to update the political concerns in a way that made it feel very relevant. It was pretty much a textbook example of how to remake a good movie. The George Clooney Oceans 11, by contrast, was a textbook example of how to remake a bad movie.
  • They have the BALLS to remake Bunny Lake is Missing? Because that Olivier guy really was TEH SUCK. Same for Noel Coward. TEH SUCK. Keir Dullea. TEH SUCK. It was bad enough that Jodie Foster ripped off the plot for her new airplane flick -- or is THAT the remake? *checks imdb* Oh. My. Christ. How dare they. I thought Jodie Foster knew better. Now SHE'S TEH SUCK.
  • Unless it's on the scale of Scorcese's remake of Cape Fear, I'm going to be seriously pissed.
  • Sorry guys, but this thread has been seriously derailed. I believe that the point of the fpp was that Jessica Alba has a seriously hott ass.
  • As long as she shows her navel, I'm good. As a pubescent sex maniac watching reruns of IDOJ, I remember shouting at the screen, "Hagman, you IDIOT! WISH THAT THERE WERE NO GENIE CLOTHES!" Also, I'm probably one of the only people around who really enjoyed the House of Wax remake.
  • My apologies, Nick. Indeed, the ass is TEH HAWT. Prominently featured in that surfing movie of hers that's coming out. Apparently, a plot is involved.