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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.7.236
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 07:10 am: | |
... wonder if this one will be as painful to endure....
[from the trades]
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
Horror
Logline: A woman is abducted and brutally raped and then left for dead. She survives, hunts her attackers and dispatches them in graphic ways. (06/04/2008) [Remake]
Buyer(s):
Production Company: CineTel Films
Producers: Paul Hertzberg, Lisa Hansen, Jeff Klein, Alan Ostroff, Gary Needle, Meir Zarchi
Seller(s):
Writer: Meir Zarchi
Comments: Remake of the controversial 1978 revenge film, directed, produced and written by Meir Zarchi. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 08:40 am: | |
Sigh. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 01:12 pm: | |
Well, what I saw of the film was so boring I can't imagine it being worse.
But then we all know it somehow will be... |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 01:13 pm: | |
Yeah - it was crap that one. Tedium broken up by moments of crapness. |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 01:31 pm: | |
Figured it would only be a matter of time... |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 01:33 pm: | |
Yeah - it was crap that one. Tedium broken up by moments of crapness.
Agreed. Which begs the question: why even bother to remake it? |
Mark West (Mark_west)
Username: Mark_west
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.39.177.173
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 02:00 pm: | |
Agreed - I've only ever seen this in its cut state and got about halfway through and seriously considered switching the damn thing off, but then braved it to the end. Bearing in mind the subject matter, I can see that they can make it more explicit now but will it be one little bit better? No. Not at all. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 03:05 pm: | |
Thing is, it was a very simple tale told with as little skill or enthusiasm as possible. I honestly don't think anyone making it had any feelings about any aspect of it; it literally felt blank. |
Mark West (Mark_west)
Username: Mark_west
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.39.177.173
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 04:24 pm: | |
Absolutely, Tony, almost as if Zarchi had a lightbulb go off, realised he ticked every "shock/horror" box and cracked on without any thought of how he would draw the viewer in.
Going back on what I said about explicitness before - and judging by some of the lame/PG-13 remakes recently, what if this actually got blander and less involving? Would that be possible, do you think? |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 06:05 pm: | |
The thing I remember most about the original (and I think I had an uncut vesion) was how astonished I was at the size of her muff. Still I think the record holder for the largest muff in film history. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 06:10 pm: | |
Don't mention muffs!
Funny but I think big bushes are lovely, even if they are untrendy. They look sort of ... snuggly. |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.187.82
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 07:02 pm: | |
Ewww...
Is this what it's come to? Remaking rubbish like I Spit on Your Grave?  |
Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
Username: Chris_morris
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 12.165.240.116
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 07:38 pm: | |
>> Is this what it's come to? Remaking rubbish like I Spit on Your Grave?
This is okay by me. I'd rather they remake the bad movies than the good ones. Maybe they can make them better this time. :-) |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 90.209.204.82
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 08:27 pm: | |
Great title (because of course it was originally Day of the Woman, which also isn't bad, but then it got retitled by the aptly named Jerry Gross) but they should use it to make a completely different (or at least re-imagined) film. Set it in the world of high finance, make the rape metaphorical and the revenge more of a ...
What on earth am I going on about? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 11:14 pm: | |
They could make the woman already dead. |