booers
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Post by booers on Apr 9, 2008 22:49:29 GMT
Like, oh em gee - is this the creepiest film ever?!
I just saw this tonight. I had no idea what it was about or what to expect so I was pretty shocked by it.
It was so tense and edge of the seat stuff - I've never felt so sick throughout a film in all my life!
I looked it up on IMDb and read it was a scene for scene remake of a German film from 1997, which explains it's total un-Hollywoodness.
I'll be double locking my doors tonight!
Anyone else seen it?
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Post by somethingbiblical on Apr 9, 2008 23:05:31 GMT
I saw a wee blurb about it somewhere and it said it was a remake of the directors own film from ten years ago, which strikes me as odd and egotistical, it never said it had been remade into a different language though
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Post by marknyc on Apr 9, 2008 23:39:38 GMT
Well, if Hollywood wants to remake your film, why not do it yourself? Frame for frame.
Apparently, Ron Howard is remaking Haneke's film Caché/Hidden, but I would personally love to see Julia Roberts in a remake of his masterpiece The Piano Teacher.
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 10, 2008 7:41:20 GMT
I would personally love to see Julia Roberts in a remake of his masterpiece The Piano Teacher. I can see totally see that! With Goldie Hawn as her mother, and Channing Tatum in the Benoît Magimel role.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 10, 2008 8:44:00 GMT
The Hidden (original version) was excellent; Ron Howard seems to have really taken a turn for the worse as he's got older, hasn't he? I can't think who would be a satisfying replacement for Daniel Auteil though (Juliette Binoche could play her own part) - Auteil was so everyman plus, and he had a fragility which few American actors have. The only person I can think of is perhaps Daniel Craig.
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Post by QuincyMD on Apr 10, 2008 10:03:59 GMT
I really enjoyed The Hidden but thats because Juliette Binoche will one day be mine!!!!!! but the ending is really really bizarre though so my understanding is that it's the son of the childhood friend out for revenge on the injustice his father suffered and the actual son out for revenge because he thinks his father ignores him and that his mother is tupping someone else who just happens to have a very similar name to himself and you have to watch the action behind the end credits really closely to work that out. Mind you I didn't like The Piano Teacher but it was nowhere near as horrible as Ma Mere, which was just wrong on so many levels.
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booers
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Post by booers on Apr 10, 2008 11:50:50 GMT
Yeah, going a bit off topic here, tout le monde. Anyone actually seen this film? If not go and see it and feel sick like I did!
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Post by SBaholic on Apr 10, 2008 12:01:25 GMT
I'm going to see this on Saturday, when the only showing is at 2240.
I'm a little bit scared.
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jerriblank
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Post by jerriblank on Apr 10, 2008 13:03:09 GMT
I remember watching the original years ago and it's completely brutal. An almost exhausting experience actually. Up there with The Vanishing for chilling Euro cinema. If it's an exact shot-for-shot remake then bravo, you don't get many endings like that in your local multiplex. Poor Naomi I'm loving the idea of a Julia Roberts makeover for The Piano Teacher but can we not have Bette Midler in the mum role?
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booers
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Post by booers on Apr 10, 2008 13:26:05 GMT
re. Jerriblank's spoiler: Totally! It made a refreshing change to not have the leads survive and have the baddies go on and be baddies with someone else. A totally fucked up film! Yay.
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Mike
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Post by Mike on Apr 12, 2008 23:35:08 GMT
I couldn't believe how casually they killed Naomi Watts - possibly the most shocking moment in the film.
Since someone mentioned The Vanishing, I never saw the original but it was obvious that ending on the US version was shoehorned in. Thank God they didn't go down that road with this one.
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Post by richdidnt on Apr 22, 2008 4:48:28 GMT
I saw this yesterday and had to switch it off after the bit where they rewind the movie. Even though you don't see much its the most horrible film I've seen in forever, I have had Romy & Michele's Highschool Reunion on all day to try and take away the memory of it all.
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