Posted on 12/19/2014 6:23:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Think you've got a hard-knock life? Try sitting through the new "Annie."
A rewritten, re-orchestrated but far from revitalized version of the old Broadway musical, this latest edition moves it out of the Depression and into a modern, tech-driven New York.....
Where's the excitement? They're not very apparent here, judging by the kids I saw at my screening. The row in front of me spent most of the movie talking....
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Too bad all these black projects were begun back before the world - even the low-information types - understood what the rest of us instinctively knew - that Obama is a failure and when you hitch your wagon to his star, you're going nowhere but down.
I liked the trailer. Generally not my favorite musical but I’m sure lots of little girls will love it. I had to sit through three hours of auditions once listening to little girls sing Tomorrow. OK, maybe it was 2 hours but it seemed like five.
Probably as bad as ‘The Wiz’........or worse..................
I did go to Sony’s website to see what movies they have, and they suck, utterly and completely. Now the Daily Beast is claiming the head guy is “right wing”, but it’s all a bunch of lukewarm PC crap. The only halfway decent offering they have is set in France and directed by Woody Allen, and I am not a person who watches romantic comedies, has any desire to go to France, or can abide Woody Allen.
White people just can't understand the more subtle meanings of the movie. "It's a hard-knock life" is an overt metaphor for the beatings that black slaves suffered under their white male heterosexual Republican Bush-voting climate-changing oppressors!!
I'll let PETA handle speaking for Annie's Dog.
AS IF! Does anyone really believe any ‘right-wing guy’ would rise to the top of a major studio?? Most Hollywood Conservatives are still ‘in the Pubbie closet’.
Poor Cameron Diaz looks haggard these days. She used to be pretty fine, but she’s not looking nearly as good as she did in the past. Trying not to say anything mean.
The original Annie movie was a product of the time. Not only could you get away with a musical back in the late 70s and earliest 80s, but there was actually a bit of 1930s nostalgia at the time, which was only 50 years before. Shows like the Waltons also were part of that.
Also, Annie was still a well-read comic strip by a number of people. Adults at the time grew up with it.
So the movie had context that made it work, not to mention it stayed somewhat true to the original source material.
This? Outside of the stage play, few people have any idea what Annie even was. So what good is a remake of something most people have no knowledge of, so thoroughly stripped of the original source material from both the comic/radio play/cartoon/movie that it just seems like a weird movie with a goofy premise? Outside of “hard knock life” who owes its 21st century pop-culture “street creed” to Jay-Z sampling it, it is not a surprise that it is as bad as the reviewer said.
Hey!
For some reason, I went alone to see “The Wiz” at a theater in downtown Detroit on opening day.
Alone.
I sorta liked the movie, especially “Ease on down the road ...”.
Finally looked around and realized I was the only white guy in the audience (or Detroit).
Cameron Diaz hasn’t looked good in a long time.
The movie also has that little girl with the name that, if you can’t pronounce it, makes you RACIST.
Does Jamie Foxx get to kill any White people in this version?
I never liked Annie to begin with — too much nostalgia for the fascist 30s New Deal culture and FDR worship. I actually like the idea of trying to revive musicals and have no problem with a predominantly black cast. Its a novel approach that may or may not work. As always, it depends on the strength of the script. Sounds like its weak in this one.
I usually like Jamie Foxx. The guy is talented. I know he has made a great living hating “Whitey” but movies are about pretend, so I don’t care.
But when I saw the previews for this I was stunned at how much the preview sucked.
Annie, in its original form had a limited audience. But to remake it targeting an even smaller audience did not make sense.
I don't know where they found that girl, but she has no charm or vivacity at all. She appeared with other castmembers on a float at the Macy's parade, and was the only one that just stood there projecting no energy or personality. She and several castmates were on the Food Network show The Kitchen to promote the movie. Once again, she stood there acting aloof while the other kids stole the show. the same was true of the clip they showed. She was the one sucking the energy out of the scene. Maybe she's related to somebody?
As was once said, a white person is rarely aware that he is white. But a black person is always aware that he is black..............You found that rare instance..........
Probably.
Thank you for confirming what I suspected. I don’t give hollyweird alot of my money and this movie won’t make me change that.
Waiting for the remake of Uncle Remus, starring Gilbert Godfried.
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