And The Butchery Never Ends!
In case you were wondering if Hollywood still hates you, they do! They plan to ruin my tweenhood memories of watching What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? on AMC when AMC played classic old movies instead of playing Mystic Fucking Pizza all the time. ("Michael, Mystic Pizza IS an old movie. You're just too old to not know this. Now drink your prune juice and choke on a caramel square, you decrepit hag!" - you) Deadline says that Hollywood has pulled out the guillotine and this time Baby Jane is going under it. Walter Hill, the director of 48 Hrs. and The Getaway, will write and direct the remake. Yeah, now I know how the maid felt after Baby Jane bopped over the head with a hammer. Here's the details from Deadline:
Hill sparked to the idea of re-creating the nightmarish relationship between two sisters in a crumbling Hollywood mansion, where former child star Jane Hudson (Davis) holds captive her crippled former movie-queen sister (Crawford). “The two equal leads demand great performers — that is a given,” Hill said. “The intensity of the Gothic storyline makes a reconfiguration of the drama still a potentially searing experience. The idea is to make a modern film without modernizing the period. It needs to resonate the golden age of Hollywood.”
Just imagining a trick besides Bette Davis saying "But ya ahhhh, Blanche, ya ahhhh in that chair" is making my ears dry heave. We already had a TV remake in 1991 with Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, and we don't need another one.
But if Hollywood insists on going through with this mess, then they should really make the remake a serious horror show. They should wipe all the Vaseline from the camera lenses, film it in 3D IMAX with bright overhead lightning and give us this cast:
"Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there coke all over your hair?"
• 
Christian Louboutin Schuhe für M?nner sehr zuversichtlich, sichere M?nner, die nie wollen, einen Schritt aus und sehen aus wie jeder else.Such als Christian Louboutin Schuhe Turnschuhe Pony Pony von der gl?nzenden Leder gemacht wird sind so konzipiert, erm?glicht flache Ferse Sie nehmen einen mehr comfortable.If Sie wollen mehr wissen? billige Louboutin Outlet Schuhe Herren, Bitte z?gern Sie nicht mehr kontaktieren us.Buy, mehr sparen, k?nnen Sie auch kaufen andere Gegenst?nde von Christian Louboutins Online-Shop, 100% Qualit?tsgarantie!Christian Louboutin 2012 Wettbewerbsf?hige Preise und versandkostenfrei zu Ihnen nach Hause.
Christian Louboutin Le donne che indossano le pompe di Louboutin Scarpe, può attirare l'attenzione di tutti gli uomini. un marchio leggendario e una delle tendenze della moda. Quindi, scarpe Christian Louboutin Outlet è molto popolare poiché la suola rossa apparve. Scarpe con la suola rossa è il simbolo di Louboutin Outlet, mette in evidenza il fascino delle donne, più tranquilla e bella sexy maturo.Christian Louboutin ha detto: quando una donna che indossano le scarpe Louboutin, allora diventeranno sexy.Scarpe Louboutin tutte le donne vogliono avere un paio di scarpette rosse Sole.
Pleez Pleez PLEEEEEEEZ - Angelina Jolie as Jane & Jennifer Aniston as Blanche oh god please let his happen - it is the only way I would accept a remake of my all time favorite movie!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"I only keep pets I can eat"
**Siphoned_Dreamz**
That being said, if it does get re-done, it better be with Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchette.
Bette's "Jane", a well understood and researched character on Davis' part.... right down to the heavy make-up, modeled on the film extras seen along the strip in the 40's who "moonlighted" as hookers, never scrubbing their faces, because they had the very best make-up jobs of their lives, and couldn't stand the idea of wiping it all away.... so they didn't. Cosmetics of the day, sold at Woolworth's wouldn't recreate the same "look" for these girls who had no talent.
Bravo Bette for infusing some life into Baby Jane, but giving her a face also. That big crusty face that she designed for herself, and applied every day of the shoot. She knew exactly what she was doing. Crawford was wonderful, as well. They were a great combo on this film.
Joan knew that she had to "underplay" to Davis' monster role in order to play the sympathetic role, which was of course, reversed, in the end.
The Redgrave Sisters totally RUINED the entire story with their cheap remake. Vanessa was all dolled up looking like Peewee Herman with the "bee-stung" lips of the 1920's..... nothing looked correct, no Jane Hudson there at all. She didn't understand the character, or what Davis' over-the-top make-up job was all about, and why. Davis' make-up was KEY to the original....clinging onto the past... curled blond hair that looked as if it was only washed twice a year. (Davis, in fact, had her Baby Jane wigs boiled in hot water before she had them "styled" for THAT look.) Their wasn't one single bit of Jane Hudson that Bette didn't control, and she was brilliant. Without a doubt, one of the best performances that she ever turned in. It's clear that she worked her ass off for this film. You can't ever accuse her of "phoning-in" her "Baby Jane", can you? She ate up the screen from the start, and was present in every single scene. She knew timing, pacing and dialog, and how to do re-writes over the phone at 2 a.m. for the next day's shoot. Bette wasn't shy about doing "ugly". She had done her own makeup in "Of Human Bondage", dying of tuberculosis in a cold-water flat, in 1932, as Madge...a Cockney Waitress, pining for her club-footed lover Leslie Howard as she lay crumbled up in a corner gasping for breath and looking like holy hell. What a gal, I say.
Leave "Baby Jane" alone for the ages, I say. Why on earth would you ever want to do "Gone With the Wind" over, either?
"Jane" was a period piece.... a slice out of old Hollywood gone stale. Leave it alone. Is there something that we didn't understand here?
Haven't we all learned that "A Star is Born" was only good for two revisits....both classics, but a third.... even if it has Barbara Streisand at the helm was doomed from the start?
Scarlett O'Hara and Jane Hudson are there for the ages. We have a wonderful public recollection of who they are.
Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 2:02am.
just caught "The Rose" the other night where Bette Midler hits up her old drag bar and the guy on stage is doing Baby Jane - why not do a drag version? now *that* would be worth paying money for! everything else - phooey!
**************************************************
There's a drag version on Netflix streaming right now called "Baby Jane?"
Tom Cruise and John Travolta
Submitted by dementa on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 1:49pm.
....But if they try to remake "The Philadelphia Story," "Bringing Up Baby," "Casablanca," "Gone With The Wind," "The Big Sleep," anything by Alfred Hitchcock, "Double Indemnity," "Meet Me In St. Louis," or other awesome movies from way back when, IT WILL BE FUCKING WAR. DIE HOLLYWOOD.
Completely agree, and add All about Eve and Gone with the Wind to the list if no one else already has. (ETA: Derp! Sorry, Dementa, my reading comrpehension SUCKS today. You put GWTW in there.)
Haven't seen the Mildred Pierce remake from 6-8 months back; not sure if I want to. DListers, let's set up a central location where we can meet up & descend on these no-creativity-having studio execs. Heyyyyyy...now there's a movie idea! Die, Hollywood, Die!
This doesn't shock me. My rage-o-meter peaked when they remade "The Women" and tried to turn it into "Sluts and the City."
But if they try to remake "The Philadelphia Story," "Bringing Up Baby," "Casablanca," "Gone With The Wind," "The Big Sleep," anything by Alfred Hitchcock, "Double Indemnity," "Meet Me In St. Louis," or other awesome movies from way back when, IT WILL BE FUCKING WAR. DIE HOLLYWOOD.
*********
I'm here to kick ass and drink tea. And I'm all out of tea.
TEAM COURTNEY LOVE AND MADONNA.
Or Meryl Streep and Glenn Close.
I'm on board with Meryl and Glenn, love both those two.
I remade Casablanca in the toilet today!
Ahhhh, a remake? Thats unusual.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My Lover!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9p0NUNlSk&feature=fvwrel
LMAO...ohhhh how I love you MK.
Submitted by doncorleone on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:00pm.
The minute those Hollywood motherfuckers decide to even think about re-making Sunset Blvd., it will be all out fucking war.
************
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
As long as people continue to see these crap remakes, Hollywood's gonna keep making them. A lot of 'young' people don't know shit about the movies.
crazy, I can see your avie
Susan Sarandon as Jane, Sharon Stone as Blanche.
Laughing my ass off at the Lohan photo with poem.
One of my favorite parts of "Arrested Development" was how Maeby became a studio executive by accident.
I loved that episode.
Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland are both very much alive, at ages 94 and 96 respectively. Unless things behind the scenes have changed, they apparently still don't speak. And Fontaine is estranged from her own daughter because she spoke secretly and often to Olivia, her aunt.
Thanks for my laugh out loud moment for today! If they're lucky, they may can score Tara Reid for Blanche!
Submitted by Hockey fan on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:59am.
yeh its like that spiderman movie, its a fucking remake of a remake of a remake or a remake.
nothing original ever comes out of hollywood.
Like Total Recall, starring colin farrell.
they just dig up old stuff and just remake it with lots of CGI and say its a new movie.
Submitted by crazyassmom on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 4:23am.
Could someone tell me if my gif is working for them!?
======================================
It's not working for me Crazy
The perfect comeback vehicle for Courtney Love! No acting eneded in that case. She one crazee beeeyotch. Bean could play her tormented child/sister.
This is why I don't go to movies anymore. There's nothing original. I haven't seen a movie in a theater since Brokeback Mountain (SHOULD'VE WON THE OSCAR, FUCK YOU, YOU PUSSY ACADEMY FULL OF HMOPHOBES!), and I don't plan to. It's all fucking garbage.
Submitted by elanenergy on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:53am.
Totally agree. But I fucking HATE mumblecore and the goddamn Duplass brothers.
----------------------------------------------------
My obsessive fascination is in your imagination.
Hollywood does indeed hate us. WTF is up with their remake mentality? Where's the originality? Or even just plain ole good story telling -- sex without violence is my motto. Foreign films and indie's (which really, indies are main stream) are The One.
My vision of world peace: a chicken in every pot, and pot for all us chickens...and weasels.
Looks more like Vadge to me....
I can see Courtney Love in this role for some odd reason.
lol@the lilo poster...
_____________________________________________
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." --
Roseanne Barr
Submitted by BernardProfitendieu on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 2:29am.
Submitted by Cookie123 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:03am.
Definitely Nicole Kidman for Betty Davis's character...then someone like Catherine Zeta Jones for the other character....
-------------------------------------
if you spell her name "Betty," then you're not entitled to an opinion on the subject
☆☆☆☆
You're not the fucking expert. Fuck off.
I mean that in the most professional way. That is to say, FUCK YOU.
Submitted by loopygorilla on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 5:44am.
Submitted by caffeinecrazed on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 5:42am.
HAHA yes Goopy would be perfect to sing it.
-------------------------------------
And Lifetime could air that unmitigated fuckery.
Submitted by caffeinecrazed on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 5:42am.
HAHA yes Goopy would be perfect to sing it.
Submitted by loopygorilla on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 2:51am.
Her hair is raggedy ass,
Her lips are thick and numb
Her hands are always stealing
She's got Betty Davis' eyes
She'll turn her saggy tits on you
and make you cum twice
Her coke is as pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
----------------------------------
LMAO! Goopy should sing that version.
MK, I love you so much! Before I scrolled down, I guessed what was coming! And you quoted my all-time favorite line from a movie, ever. (So appropriate whenever somebody starts whining).
What next? A remake of "Now, Yoyager" with Mumbles Lively?
The biggest laugh this year @ Lohan poster
(kiss this)--------------------------->>> (_!_)
Could someone tell me if my gif is working for them!? It's not working on my phone, which I use all of the time. Everyone else (I assume) that has a gif works for my view.
Anyone catches this and answers, thanks in advance! =•}
====================
"Birds are doomed when pussies can fly"- MK
I have to admit, I also have never seen this. *hangs head in shame*
I put my vote in for Niecey (Nash, I think?)for the crazy chick! She is actually a *good actress*, saw her on "Glee" last season. Her and Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) were great together, played off of each other very well!
As for the other character.... I gots nothin'! XD
====================
"Birds are doomed when pussies can fly"- MK
Do the world a favor and shut up and bleed.
Didn't they already remake this with the Redgrave sisters? Personally, I've never cared for this movie. I've tried to watch it in one sitting countless times but it usually takes at least two. My mind just starts to wander. I keep hearing Joan screaming "No more wire hangers!" (Yes, I know that was Faye Dunnaway's over-the-top portrayal but I can't help it that the image fits.) And I wanted to beat Bette Davis to death with that creepy and ugly doll.
Damn
Her hair is raggedy ass,
Her lips are thick and numb
Her hands are always stealing
She's got Betty Davis' eyes
She'll turn her saggy tits on you
and make you cum twice
Her coke is as pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
Submitted by Cookie123 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:03am.
Definitely Nicole Kidman for Betty Davis's character...then someone like Catherine Zeta Jones for the other character....
-------------------------------------
if you spell her name "Betty," then you're not entitled to an opinion on the subject
-------------------------------------
Aniston is artistically, intellectually and reproductively barren.
Paltrow is a walking argument against nepotism.
nobody can top Bette Davis -- what egotistical dimwit would even try?
-------------------------------------
Aniston is artistically, intellectually and reproductively barren.
Paltrow is a walking argument against nepotism.
I am dead sick of all these stupid remakes! I loved the original with the plot twist and all! Poor Baby Jane! It's bad enough she ended in tragedy, but now she's getting made over as some grade Z vehicle for some Twilighty Gossip Girl type starlet or worse yet, Blohan!
First, I agree that remakes are almost always a bad idea. Bette Davis was asked about the phenomenon of her old hits being remade and had the best answer: "The good ones are classics because they were done right the first time. Why don't they try to remake some of my stinkers?"
Of course following her wise advise would require way too much creativity, and would defy the current business model of merely trading on a beloved title for a big opening weekend- quality be damned (did any of you punish yourselves with the execrable remakes of "Manchurian Candidate" or "Stepford Wives"? Painful stuff)
Still, in the spirit of the thing, the pairing has to be age appropriate to the story (BD and JC were in their mid 50s when they made the original, but I would go with 1970s superstars who are now in their 60s/early 70s - preferably ones who had some notoriety for being "difficult" at some point:
#1 Faye Dunaway(Jane) & Jane Fonda (Blanche)
#2 Ann-Margret (Jane) & Liza Minnelli (Blanche)
#3 Cher (Jane) & Anjelica Huston (Blanche)
just caught "The Rose" the other night where Bette Midler hits up her old drag bar and the guy on stage is doing Baby Jane - why not do a drag version? now *that* would be worth paying money for! everything else - phooey!
That was a great scene, by the way. Midler, Sylvester as Diana Ross , someone else perfectly done as Babs, a Mae West and some Queen as "The Rose" singing "The Fire Down Below" - beeyootiful.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
God don't like ugly.
Loons claim that it's their much-hated Maniston who wants to star in this remake.
----
"Sal, darling, you are the reason some women go gay. ♥" - Submitted by Dog on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 6:32pm.
"life is precious, you must not have watched The Lion King, you heartless fuck"
MK, to get the FULL Baby Jane effect, post that pic of Blohan in the pink fur coat.
Every time I see that, I hear Rod Stewart croon "Baby Jane, don't keep me hanging on the line; I knew you when you had no one to talk to; now you're moving in HIGH SO-CI-E-TE-Y; do-o-o-o-on't forget, I know secrets about you...Baby Jane, I said all I want to say; go your own way, don't think twice about me" etc...
(And I still so would with Rod!)
I am still crying over whoever said Julia Roberts and Mr. Ed!
LieLow and White Oprah would look more sisterly than LL and Alli.
I am...doll parts...bad skin...doll heart.
LMFAO!!! Oh man that should simply be a piece of pop art!