Saturday, April 19, 2008
POLICY QUESTIONS
Today's film was
Let me explain.
I saw the original of this film Mostly Martha a few years ago. A memorable film made in Germany.
In true, wasteful, Hollywood fashion, they bought the original script and made a new version only a few years later.
Now, I don't watch remakes. Especially of films that I especially liked the first time.
But the reviews for this film with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart were very good. And they have Abigail Breslin, the kid from the beauty pageant movie Little Miss Sunshine.
So I broke my rule. What is a rule without an exception.
Long story short, I left with the same good feeling about this film that I did the German original.
They even used one cut of the Paolo Conte score used in Martha.
To seal the deal, I am going to watch the first one tomorrow.
This remake gets at least a 3 out of Netflix5. I know that it's original gets at least that much.
Go read the review at the first link if you want to know what the movie is about.
