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So If THE LAKE HOUSE Goes Under 55 Miles Per Hour, What Happens To It?!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I keed. I keed. I’ll be honest with you... this one intrigues me for any number of reasons. First, it’s a remake of IL MARE, a really lovely, haunting little Korean film that played not only as a romantic weepy, but also as a pretty acid commentary on a culture that has retreated into instant messaging in place of real conversation, virtual connections in place of physical ones. It’s a pretty natural candidate for a remake, but it’s going to take a special filmmaker to get it right.
Which is why I’m intrigued by the guy Warner Bros. hired. Alejandro Agresti is directing, an Argentine filmmaker who has been working for a while now, but whose international breakthrough film was a gentle human comedy called VALENTIN. Great stuff. Eccentric but with a real voice. Having playwright David Auburn aboard to write the film... well, I’d say they have a hell of a shot with all of these elements in place at actually getting this right. And the new trailer seems to bear out that theory:
Go ahead and laugh, you black-hearted talkbackers! My wife will single-handedly make this film back its production budget with the number of times I’m sure she’ll see it!
"Moriarty" out.
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When will they start remaking the Turkish remakes of US movies? Oh, for a Hollywood remake of "Badi", "Seytan", "3 Dev Adam" and, of course, "D
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Saw the trailer before Poseidon. And the group I was with loved the trailer. Looks like it could be a winner. Not only the wife...but I'm looking forward to it too. It was an "under the radar" pic that I'd not heard of. Let's hope the movie holds up the promise of the trailer!
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Moriarty, the Korean movie was called Siworae...the name of the house in the movie was Il Mare.
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I'm up for it as at least it's not a sequal... Most Asian flicks have some pretty cool ideas behind them too, not so much formula. As long as it doesn't get the Vanishing treatment I'll keep an open mind.
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How do the logistics of the plot work? Does one of them die in the three year span between them?
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In ONE movie? The lack of acting abilities is just unbearable.
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I thought the trailer was good, and will be seeing this movie.
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Seriously, both actors look EXACTLY the same as they did 12 years ago in Speed. Freaky...
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I think this looks very cool... just enough sci-fi for me and not too much for my wife... I see the tears flowing already.
So if he is 2 years in the past on the same day as her. Could they ever meet?
If he sends the letter in 2004 saying go to Wrigley Field on the same day in 2006. She could wait at that spot until he shows up.
But he will be killed by a bus or something... DAMN! -
can Keanu deliver a line or what?
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has the same name and a lot of people I talk to think the movie is based on the book, not an Asian movie.
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How about an acting double,
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...i thought sandra bullock had given up. haven't seen her name in a while.
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unfortunately not. She gives a very poor performance in Crash opposite a slightly inflated Brendan Fraser. "George sad that people can't just get along."
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i remember hearing she was in that one; i missed it. and having seen the trailer for this film: yowch. "it's beautiful... seductive even." who's that cartoon dog who delivers his lines like that? not huckleberry hound. snagglepuss? he was a cat. listen to that line in the trailer but imagine it with a snagglepuss voice. nice. heavens to murgatroid. exit stage left.
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after it won Best Picture (to see what the hype was about). I predicted that my girlfriend would really like it, and that I would think it somewhat less than amazing. 100% accurate unfortunately. Girls are rubbish...
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Looks interesting, tho, and since Keanu is the best actor alive, I'll probably see it on DVD.
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...this is going to make shitloads of money? So far, the first 2 summer big boys have underperformed and really, it's going to be down to Da Vinci Code and X3 to set the precedent and see if this summer is going to be a box office winner or not before Supes and Jack Sparrow arrive...yet I have a distinct feeling it's going to be stuff like this, You, Me and Dupree and possibly Lady In The Water that might be the real profitable flicks of the year - Wedding Crashers came out of nowhere last year to top $200 million and I'm wondering if maybe audiences might be wanting more from their summer films far than CGI and more explosions? I'm just speculating here so don't mind me really.
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take my wife and we can both be spared.
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It's not based on the book...go to IMDB. Also, I love the Korean verson. I cry like a little bitch everytime I see it. It kinda lags a little...korean love storys do sometimes.
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Re-read his post: it's other people that might not know that. Of course, there's a book called BEACH House, is there one called Lake House as well?
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That just as Keanu discovers that his entire life has been a computer generated lie, and he now has lung cancer and must chase down renegade demons in the "real" world, Sandra Bullock comes back into his life, but is actually an alcoholic undercover FBI agent who must go into rehab while simultaneously investigating two murderous highschool kids hiding out as beauty pageant contestants. The twist is, at the end, we see the letters are getting ferried back and forth by George Carlin in a time-traveling phonebooth. Wyld Stallyns rule!
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when it was called "The love letter" with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Campbell Scott and was a Hallmark presentation:
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Where does it say in his post that he knows its a remake...uhn?
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I think it was an innovative choice of Warner to choose him to direct two big stars like Keanu and Bullock. It will be a challenge for him but I think it will work because he is very subtle and knows how to deal with sentiments without being cheesy or falling in the ordinary. IMO it's really hard to find movies for mature audiences this time of the year (or even with females as target audience), and this could really find the right spot this summer, being a welcome surprise.
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Am I the only one who actually likes Keanu Reeves? I think he's extremely affible. I really enjoy his action movies (Constantine was fun!) and his dramas are always exactly what they need to be. I'm not saying I'm going to give him an Oscar, but I'm going to give his movies my eight bucks!
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...in a dramatic role. Holy shit will this movie be bad.
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mullymt, I think the guy gets much more of a bad rep without deserving it. And he chooses great projects (just look at Scanner Darkly). And for anyone who thinks he can't do drama, just watch Permanent Record and Hardball. Really good stuff.
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... the Korean movie, which was known as Siworae in Korea (translates as Love Story in Korean I think). Il Mare is also the name of the house in the Korean version.
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I think.
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Glad someone else sees the similarity. When I saw the trailer a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by how much this looked that the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie The Love Letter with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Checking at the IMDB, this TV movie is based on a short story by Jack Finney that has been published in several anthologies, and not the Korean film. Looks to be the same premise, though a far greater period of time is involved: present day and the Civil War.
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The title is really Chinese. Koreans use a lot of Chinese. Anywho...Roughly translated Siworae means
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...came out 2 years before the Koeran movie.
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Gonna get laughed at some more, but I thought those two were the only reason to watch speed--they had good chemistry amidst a lousy film. I'll deffinitely see this film--looks quite interesting, and I just know my wife will drag me to this anyway, so I may as well enjoy it.
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... hence why I punctuated much of what I wrote with "I think". However, I think the final word on the subject may well rest with my friend, a Korean/English (and vice versa) translator. (I think the mistake I made is that the movie in Korea is often known as "Love Story" (not Il Mare), which Siworae is not a translation of). [The writer] just tried to make a word combined with Chinese and Korean. [Siworae] means "love transcended time". "si" means "time" in Korean, "Wol" means "transcend" in Chinese and "Ae" means "love" in Chinese. As it was made by a Korean, the Chinese title was gramatically wrong.
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... Koreans have a lot of words which are derived from Chinese words (as do Japanese) but they're not always exactly the same as the Chinese words and are Korean words in their own right. Like how we have a lot of words in English which are very similar to words in the foreign languages that they came from - but are no less English words for all that.
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I know most of that already. Thanks for the "Transcend" Translation. We was trying to find the right word for that. I know about the Chinese and Korean relationship. I live in Seoul, Korea. My GF is Korean. "[The writer] just tried to make a word combined with Chinese and Korean." That is true, but the reason is that not only does it sound cooler.
THe Korean name would ahve been: 시간을 초월한 사랑. Translated means: The love which surpasses a time.
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...시간을 초월한 사랑... should have been the hangul version. Well, crap on AICN.
Oh, and Koreans don't know the movie as "Love Story". If you said Love Story in Korea they would think of the Ryan O'Neal Movie. Or any love story...To Koreans this movie is not refered to as love story. -
At all times, I more than entertain the possibility that I am slightly, majorly or completely wrong about a few, some or all things at all time. So, I hope I'm not trying to come across as someone trying to be an expert, nor rude about it as exactly what I'm not aiming for. Now knowing your background (I plead ignorance before), I will especially shut up as I am merely an interested (inexpert) dilettante in (a few) things Korean. Some of my Korean friends did refer to the film as Love Story though I have no idea why. Since I'm the one who is usually lending them Korean movies and they're long term expats who've been out of the loop, what this actually means is anyone's guess.
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Do you know about the site www.koreanfilm.org? I find it excellent to help keep up to speed on the Korean film industry. Obviously it'd be (potentially) much easier for you because you're in the country but I find it handy.
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I am sorry if I came accross like a "Mr Know-It-All". I have seen that site before. It's good. If you get a chance to see Typhoon, Marrying the Mafia, and Marrying the Mafia 2...they are great movies. I did some voice work in Typhoon.
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No no, not at all. I was worried *I* was the one trying to come across as a know it all (when I'm obviously not). Anyone who can introduce me to any new Korean movies is much appreciated. I do want to see Typhoon once I can get my hands on it. Just have "Wedding Campaign", "Bittersweet Life", "Mr Socrates" and countless others in a pile on my to do list as well as a lot of others. (I think it took me almost a year to watch 'Rules of Dating' after I bought it).
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