![]() ![]() I enjoyed Sam Rockwell more in this role than Craig T. The script Kenan directed jumps immediately into malicious attacks, before the family even moves into the house.īefore I dig into the weaker points of the new Poltergeist, I want to address the things I liked. Hooper's version was a slow burn that began with odd, whimsical events and descended into terrifying madness. It's 21 minutes shorter, and everything feels rushed. The differences in this version are immediately obvious. Hooper's original figures heavily in this review, and you should be familiar with the story before you continue. It's the apex of family horror films and the greatest haunted house movie ever made, so it's little surprise Kenan would be chosen to direct the remake, based on his earlier Monster House. Nelson, JoBeth Williams and Zelda Rubinstein, do yourself a favor and stop reading now. If you haven't watched the 1982 Poltergeist, which stars Craig T. I expected the new movie to completely suck, so I'm surprised to disagree with many of my fellows and say that it's not great, but it's sort of okay. David Lindsay-Abaire ( Oz the Great and Powerful, Rise of the Guardians) re-adapted the script from the original film, which had been conceived and co-written by Steven Spielberg. On Thursday, I saw the Gil Kenan ( Monster House, City of Ember)-directed movie Poltergeist, a remake of Tobe Hooper's 1982 masterpiece. The film, based on her memoirs, gets underway on the shores of Nice in 1976. With In The Name of My Daughter (whose original title, L'homme qu'on aimait trop, oddly translates as The Man Who Was Loved Too Much), Techine teams up with legendary actress Catherine Denueve for the seventh time and gives her the juicy role of Renee Le Roux - a casino magnate on the French Riviera who has inherited the Palais de la Mediterranee from her late husband. I was very wrong, although the film does end up spanning over 30 years before the end credits roll. There just wasn't anything to indicate the time period at all, I presumed it was a contemporary tale. It really says something about the strong fashion sense of the French (or the fact that I watched it from a screener instead of on the big screen) that I didn't even realize this movie was set in the 70s until I glanced over at the press notes about 15 minutes in to verify an actor's name. I've been a fan of his work for almost as long as I've been watching world cinema. Rendez-vous, My Favorite Season, Wild Reeds and Changing Times represent some of the best that French cinema has had to offer in the last 30 years. All I knew in advance about In the Name of My Daughter was that it was based on a true story, just like another of French auteur Andre Techine's recent films, The Girl On The Train. ![]()
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