Released on: 2004
Rating: 6.40
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What if Star Wars had never existed?
Would cinema be better off if George Lucas had ditched the films after American Graffiti and bred koi instead?
I do like a spot of alternate history – the literary subgenre in which a crucial historical moment either turns out entirely differently or never happens at all, at a stroke transforming the here and now into the jarringly unfamiliar. On the page, for instance, the idea of Hitler winning the war famously animated Philip K Dick and Robert Harris into grim flights of speculative fancy. But you can also treat the concept as a parlour game – one easily applied to film. How would cinema have been affected had Akira Kurosawa made it as a painter and never made Seven Samurai? What if the 1998 best picture Oscar had gone not to Shakespeare in Love, but Gummo?
Looking out balefully over the summer release schedule with its sorry parade of remakes, prequels, sequels and threequels,»
- Danny Leigh
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Isla Fisher Hits the Road in the Female 'Hangover' Pic, 'Desperados'
"The Hangover" was a surprise hit in 2009 and, since then, every studio has pushed their own raunchy, R-rated comedies into production in hopes of replicating the film's success.
According to the L.A. Times, Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers," "Confessions of a Shopaholic") is set to star in "Desperados," described as a female "Hangover" set during a road trip. Since "The Hangover" was essentially a self-contained road movie around the seedier parts of Vegas, the movie should follow the formula quite closely.
The script was written by Ellen Rapoport and previously held a spot on the coveted Black List, a compilation of the best, unproduced scripts floating around Hollywood. Not much is known about the antics Fisher and her yet-to-be-cast cohorts will get into, but the film concerns three women who head to Mexico after one of them leaves a caustic message for a man she likes.
"Desperados" is honing in on director Betty Thomas,»
- Matt Patches
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