Annie trailer - Page 3

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 2:37pm

I love you for that, Borstalboy!

"Lick Mommy's feet, get 'em all wet!"

[missthemountains]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 3:17pm

I guess overall I'm just confused as to why this is happening. On one hand, there's no point in remaking something if you're just going to carbon-copy the original-but on the other hand, I don't think that everything should be changed. On the whole, I hate Annie and don't understand why this story is still being told, that being said it wouldn't be beneath me to illegally download it when it comes out.

[Jennifer Lynn]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 12:26am

I agree. I'm all in favor of new adaptations of stage musicals. I'm all in favor of giving movies the benefit of the doubt and not getting on one's high horse about them, but...

...WHY would they update this to contemporary times when the whole show (and indeed, the strip it was based on...at least when it started) revolved around the Great Depression? It's not like, say, a Shakespeare play when a setting update can shed a new light on what the author intended...it was what the original show was rooted in. And even changing the name of a main character?!

Admittedly, the 1982 movie wasn't perfect, although it had its saving graces. But the thing is, that was ALREADY remedied by the wonderful 1999 TV-movie version, which was much closer to the feel of the stage show and restored two of its best songs. That freshened it up without harming the original. So what was the need for this?

(In all fairness, though, it's not as though the original show would have made strip creator Harold Gray very happy...given that he hated FDR's guts and thought the New Deal was a tool of the devil...)

[bryan2]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 11:02am

Why would they do this and have a girl who cannot sing in the lead..