... to remake Bill Rebane's INVASION FROM INNER EARTH (1974)?
(If you deign to click on the YouTube link, fast forward to 7m and ride that puppy 'til the end of the world.)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Really? $50,000,000...
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Well, in this case, a remake would have to work hard to be worse than the original. I saw this on TV on a Sunday afternoon when I was a kid. If I weren't for my obsessive need to finish what I'd started I never would have made it to end.
That is glorious. I want the next misbegotten Nic Cage vehicle to be a 100,000,000 dollar remake of The Giant Spider Invasion. Directed by Peter Jackson.
I kinda liked Knowing...
But that also means you kinda didn't like it... right?
Well, yes. The space angels were a bit much, as were the implications that incest would help save humanity. But I mostly did like it. I thought it was pretty engaging as a thriller, I liked Cage and Rose Byrne and whoever played Cage's skeptical pal, and I liked that it took the concept of the end of the world seriously, and not just as an excuse for special effects. AND I liked the implication that the Apocalypse was inevitable.
I'd love to see the original draft by Ryne Douglas Pearson because I suspect it was not the action picture that is Knowing. I think this thing was at its worst as a Nic Cage vehicle, with him constantly running, running, running to no purpose and that ridiculous scene where he sees the "grays" outside his home and runs out with the baseball bat (who would leave their only child unguarded in a sprawling, unprotected home to go out and get all alpha dog like that?). The movie stunk too obviously to me of a think piece tarted up as a popcorn muncher. And poor Rose Byrne... does she ever live?
He's running to no purpose, but HE doesn't know that. I mean, he's trying to thwart disaster and massive loss of human life. AND HE FAILS! Like, three different times, and that last failure is a real humdinger. That's not fodder for your typical popcorn movie, and I honestly found that admirable. Plus, I found the moment when he's begging the aliens to be allowed to come along, and being turned away, to be pretty close to gut-wrenching.
I'm normally very easily moved by the involvement of children in a movie - particularly the separation of parent and child (e.g., the end of the miniseries Storm of the Century) but this thing just left me cold. I will give it props for doing what Greg has complained most end-of-the-world movies don't do... but look at the price! Eternity in beige!
Nah. If you're gonna remake a Bill Rebane flick, make it the one about the sentient monster truck, Twister's Revenge.
Wow... I didn't catch the "fast forward to 7m..."
So I sat through seven minutes of two people just wandering around in the snow.
Literally (well, aside for a minute of a DJ). But otherwise... clomp clomp clomp.
How does anyone edit six minutes of people walking and still think it'll be compelling?
You really can't break Rebane's movies up into their component parts and get anything out of them. You may not ever be able to get anything out of them but I will cop to falling under their intoxicating, ass-numbing influence... particularly The Alpha Incident, although this one kept me glued to the screen for its duration back when I was a tender young thing with a lot of time on my hands.
Give me what I want, and I'll go away.
I think the DJ scene would have been better if he was playing Papa-Oom-Mau-Mau (but then I realized Rebane already used it for Monster-a-go-go). How much do you think Coke and Marlboro paid Rebane for the product placements?
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