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Behold David Tennant As The New Peter Vincent In The FRIGHT NIGHT Remake!!
Merrick here...
ShockTillYouDrop has a snapshot of a character promo for the new FRIGHT NIGHT remake, bringing us our first look at David Tennant (The Doctor before Matt Smith in DOCTOR WHO) as Peter Vincent.
In Tom Holland's 1985 original, Vincent (played by Roddy McDowall in that film) was a late night horror show host sought by our hero to help with a vampire problem. In Craig Gillespie's remake, the character is a Chris Angel-styled illusionist.
Click the thumbnail below to jump to two larger images of Tennant as Vincent.
As many apprehensions as I have about this project, I love Tennant's work (not just in DOCTOR WHO) and can't wait to see him in it.
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But that looks awful! Doesn't give me confidence in a Firght Night remake.
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I'd rather someone lamely attempted a "first" rather than kick things off with the douchy non-word of "meh". God I hate that fuckin thing.
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Fright Night, FOR REAL, came out in 1985.
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This reeks of "we have to cater to the young and hip." I've been to too many remakes that just dumb it down for the 13-year-olds. No thanks to this.
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I like David Tennant, but I don't know about this.
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but that picture is not what I was expecting.
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That film, while admittedly kind of enjoyable, is incredibly dated and cheesy. Except for Roddy McDowell, most of the acting is pretty bad.
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He's what, like 90? But still he would be great.
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Sep 02, 2010 9:50:52 AM CDT
Got to watch the original Fright Night on the big screen
by can_you_fly_bobby
in July. What an awesome movie. Not sure it really need a remake, but whatever.
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Sep 02, 2010 9:51:23 AM CDT
Harvey Keitel would have been good
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
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"These are adult stem cells harvested from perfectly healthy adults, whom I killed for their stem cells."
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No offense meant, man, it's nothing against you personally. I just feel that "meh" is like Jersey Shore, Lindsay Lohan, or people who call Herc a journalist - in other words it's reprehensible and proof of the downfall (and dumbing down) of our society. I just can't stand non-words like that.
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Not like the direction of this film, but Tennant may surprise us.
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Not what I was expecting. Gonna need a trailer to pass further judgment.
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with bruce campbell?
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Is that redundant?
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Seriously, that looks horrible. I wish they had made the character a washed up Hammer actor/tv horror host like in the original instead of some Criss Angel type. I won't write this off until I see a trailer, but this remake doesn't bode well.
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Sep 02, 2010 10:15:40 AM CDT
So, Colin Farrel is the vampire, then? I really liked the
by coughlins laws
movie when I was a kid but didn't realize how cheesy it was and all the plot holes it had until I saw it again for the first time in 15 years last month. I didn't realize that the girlfriend was a pre-lesbian Marcy D'Arcy. But my problem with that movie and alot of 80's movies is the ridiculousness of people just blowing over all the dead bodies. So, after Peter Vincent and Charlie kill the neighbors and pretty much destroy their house, there's no follow up? No one notices? And what about Evil being killed in their house with a stake through the heart? Wouldn't he have been lying dead on the floor? And how was Evil somehow alive again at the end? And didn't Charlie's mother ever wonder why the staircase railing and the chandeleir were broken? Or why there was blood all over the place? Or whatever happened to Evil? Did he explain that Evil had to be killed to Evil's parents? Or how did Peter Vincent get his job back when he was cancelled? Or how was Charlie such a fan of vampire movies and he didn't know that a Crucifix, Holy Water, and Garlic would keep a vampire away? OK, maybe to many questions for a stupid 80's teen vampire movie. but watching it with adult eyes for the first time in years the other day made me realize that it really wasn't a good movie and doesn't hold up well...
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...this is going to be terrible.
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Not sure about this remake, though. Script review didn't sound too promising.
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And with 50% less date rape drugging of attractive audience members!
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That's him
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Gr8 potential never fully realized. The orginal is okay, but could be so much better.
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Proof that this a complete overhaul and not just a remake. Metrosexual Yanni-fied Peter Vincent? WTF?!?
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Why does he look like he used to be in Motley Crue?
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Sep 02, 2010 11:00:17 AM CDT
Okay, that's just HORRIBLE. This isn't a "remake", it's going to
by dasheight
Seriously - what the hell was wrong with the original template? The POINT is that Vincent is supposed to be a relic, an antique, a washed-up horror host in a tweed suit - not a Criss Angel-style jerk. COME ON.
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I was not excited about the possibility of this remake, but when Tennant was announced, I was hopeful. This picture makes it look like it could be incredibly good. (Seriously people, would you really want him to do the same vampire cape schtick in a 2010 version?!)
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Why would they replace this character with a magician? Do magicians have an intense knowledge of vampires that I am not aware of?
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I'm remaining open minded about this, but I have to say I wish he was still a TV horror host. For obvious reasons I do LOVE that all-but-forgotten TV staple. This could have been an opportunity to bring recognition back to that honorable tradition. (better than Rob Zombie did in Halloween 2)
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I can already see where this is going and it's going to suck.
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Every time they have added someone to this cast I have been excited.Especially being a Doctor Who fan,but this looks awful.In my head I'm trying to imagine David doing a Chris Angel impersonation.
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Might as well have made him a garbage man. At least the horror host/washed up horror actor angle made sense in the original.
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Isn't the entire premise of 'Fright Night' revolve around whether Jerry Dandridge is or is NOT a vampire? if you already know (spoiler alert) that he is, the whole story goes out the window. Also, what does a Criss-Angel type magician know about vampires? Charlie Brewster went to Peter Vincent because he thought he could help him, based on his past roles as a 'vampire hunter'. His cable show was even called 'Fright Night' for fucks sake!!!
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a Hammy Actor. Every expression is over expressed and every word is over emphasized. I personally did not like his Dr. Who but he is very popular!
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He's a poser as a Criss Angel type magician, and once he takes the hair off, he's a scared little girl.
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...way past his peak as an entertainer. And that kid encountering real vamps can think of no one else to turn to. Not sure how a magician in his 30's relates exactly.
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how can you take a good vampire movie and shit all over it. you can sprinkle all sorts of big name actors on this turd and it will remain the same: one big steaming pile of shit.
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Cant stand the fucking cheesy sweaty sock over the shoulder boulder moulder!
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It looks like concept art from a low-budget Labyrinth remake...
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...TWAP TWAP.....NMMF...FART.....zzzzzzzzzzzz
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They're illusions. Tricks are what whores do for money.
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That is not the image I was expecting.
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Tennant playing a cowardly, incompetant magician - sounds great to me
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Way to pass judgment on the whole film based on a picture of a picture taken at a bad angle.
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Roddy McDowall was perfect in the original. This will sink.
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for the acting skills and the plot holes wants a fucking good shake.
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cool
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..the musical,
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Spooonmaaan!
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as gone with Michael Sheen.
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Sep 02, 2010 1:44:38 PM CDT
OF ALL THE DORKY, WANNABE, UN-INSPIRATIONS TO PICK......crap.
by missing dink
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Roddy McDowell rules this character. They should have gone with a Vincent Price like character. Who's in charge of this look? idiot and brainless Hollywood kids.
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Patrick Stewart got nominated for an Emmy when Tennant totally stole the show.
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God I hope the studios read TB's like this.
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Peter Vincent was originally concieved as a tribute to Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, both legends of classic horror films. This new version seems to toss that out the window. Why don't they just call the new character 'Criss Copperfield' or "Blaine Penn" or something stupid.
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was there at the theatres opening weekend.a whole group of us in high school...god bless roddy mcdowell and "Marcy from married with children" I will not see this garbage..and well god bless/stake ya "Evil ED"...
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if you're looking forward to the FRIGHT NIGHT remake.Seriously.It'll make it a whole lot easier for us to round you all up when we need to.You didn't think we were going to let you continue to use our air, did you?
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The Lost Boys remake. Guarantee it.
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Sep 02, 2010 3:14:17 PM CDT
Saw Tennant play Hamelt at Stratford couple yrs ago.
by john_mcclanes_vest
The best night of my life. Guys the real deal.
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Now I'm hungry for a ham melt. Oh, and that picture is pathetic. This is gonna sssuuuccccckkkkk.
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That's the funniest shit I've seen all day.
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If they wanted to do something different, there are a lot more things that would've made sense. They could've made him some failed tv actor who played a Kolchak/Mulder type character, a horror writer, or maybe some kind of Ghosthunters/Mythbusters tv personality. Instead, they chose to turn Peter Vincent into fucking Gob.
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Oh wait, NOT A SURPRISE AT ALL!! Tennant's a good stage actor I'll give him that but he fucking sucks in everything on tv or film. Hearing he was following Roddy made me sick, loving McDowell's work in general so much and his role as Vincent in particular. Seeing the route that fucking hack Noxon is taking to ruin the name Fright Night is only confirming my venomous thoughts about the abominable remake. Fucking awful. Fucking terrible. Shame on everyone involved.
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It's my all-time favorite vampire movie. All I've got to say is I'm worried...very worried.
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Love Tennant, and obviously its just a wig and fake beard cos Vincent is a fake and a coward. I like the fresh approach to the material rather than churn out a pointless copy of the original.
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Peter Vincent is supposed to be a spoof Vampire hunter named after the horror actors Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. This Magician angle makes the name utterly pointless, he might as well be called "Criss Copperfield" now!
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And nothing that reminds me of that no-talent monkey-faced ass clown can be any good.
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I'm sure that'll be a site to behold...
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whatever tiny bit of interest i had in seeing this was just crushed. This looks like some guy dressed as a wizard at a renaissance fair
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Sep 02, 2010 8:32:36 PM CDT
I like it! Its an unexpected move and quite ingenious!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Nobody could say they saw the character Peter Vincent being remade into this! NOBODY!!!I love Fright Night but its not like it was a classic or anything!A cult favorite if anything and those are always remade!
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Fright Night not a classic? Which freaky bizarro universe did you fall here from? Cult favourite perhaps, I'll give you that but it was more than some niche film. It was a very well-known horror at the time, it's name is still well-known and loved and as a film frankly for whatever faults it carries, it is miles ahead of 99.9% of all horror films made since - let alone just other vampire films. It was nigh on a perfect movie. Perfectly cast, perfectly performed, perfectly directed and created. Lightning in a bottle in the same way Near Dark was such a welcome slice of gold a couple of years later - perfect products of their time and place that cannot be replicated. A remake of such a movie is bad enough at any time but for them to simply be spitting on the original by not even trying to make anything decent, the way Noxon and the studio seem to be, is awful. I mean fucking hell, look at that picture. It's obviously just a cheesy shot of the character's 'show' persona but ffs. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know about the lack of subtlety and nuance in Noxon's writing for this remake, I don't know how better to explain it. Forget great acting and pitch perfect characterisation from the likes of masters like Sarandon and McDowell. Instead we have a 5 foot tall walking eyebrow playing Dandridge and and a man playing Vincent whose idea of subtlety comes with triple exclamation points. This movie was doomed as soon as they gave it to Noxon. Tenant and Farrell are merely going to bury the corpse. Chris Mintz Plasse will be the one piddling on the grave. Screw this remake and shame on everyone involved. Have I mentioned that before? In case my feelings on the mater aren't clear, and I guarantee that if no-one else in the production is reading AICN articles on it, at the very least Mintz-Plasse is, SHAME ON YOU ALL. Fright Night is a classic.
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I'm on three weeks of night duties and have had about 4 hours sleep in the last two days. My mind may be going but at least I've still got my looks.......but as addendum FUCK THIS MOVIE. Not normally too much that kind of a vindictive movie geek but this one really deserves it.
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Now as much as I like, NOT LOVE, Fright Night it was a niche film!If it wasn't for the performances of the actors; Roddy and Chris, the movie could(and at times did) have gone into bad cheesy shit territory very fucking easy!Roddy McDowell and Chris Sarandon saved it! They were the best thing about Fright Night!I left out Charlie because he was simply playing a reactionary character to all the shit that was happening! No real acting just reacting to it!Not saying he didn't do good but not the real reason FN worked!
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It's a train wreck... but he's SO FUCKING HAWT...
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...if no-one will read that, fair enough - but frankly it's hardly War and Peace so I fear for the attention span of anyone who can't get through it. You comments on how Sarandon and McDowell 'saved' that movie can be applied to any successful, well-loved film - if Wall Street had Pauly Shore playing Gordon Gekko and Carrot Top playing Bud then even Oliver Stone couldn't have made it work. The simple fact is the films did work because they were what they were, therefore your point makes no sense. If it had been different, it would have been different? Yep, ok. Don't mean any offence there but it's kind of a non-point. I'd like to say that at the time it came out it was far from cheesy - it was a pretty scary vamp flick then. Things may have got more graphic and intense since then but that's the movie world for ya. Cheesy at times in hindsight perhaps, not at all when it was released - it was a fucking clever modern take on exactly the films Peter Vincent was supposed to have made and ended up hosting so all the elements that you may consider cheesy now had their roots in the classic horrors that Fright Night was a love letter to. Fright Night for me really is one of the sacred cows of the movie world. It works due to all the elements meshing perfectly - hell, even Marcy Darcy worked out well in it. I was a young teen when it was about to be released, at the time even that fucking fantastic movie poster for it gave me the chill, it was great - so when I got to see it lying about my age to get in, I was already stoked and I wasn't disappointed. Amazing film at the time, still is - it's one that still makes me fall in love with it every time I see it, and I watch it - and it's sequel - at least 4 or 5 times a year. Sometimes more. It's one of those films that I can't ever get tired of and always makes me feel great watching it. You're right about Sarandon and McDowell carrying the performances of the film but everyone else while not up to their level did great jobs too - when you look at the horror movie shit being released today and the vapid non-entities populating such movies, it's even clearer how special Fright Night was. Like I said, lightning in a bottle. I mean jeez, the writing had so many layers - look at the depths of characterisation the main characters could provide with a simple few lines here and there. As I've gotten older and become more of a movie buff I've seen more clearly how clever the film was at both updating and adoring the older horror movies - it's a genuinely great bit of movie making and movie history. This remake is a fucking insult in everyway.
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Late sure; but wouldn't be cool to have Crispin Glover as Peter Vincent. Oh well. Even if this movie sucks, we could finally get a special edition of the original flick. They then to do stuff like that. I would like an upgrade from bare bones.
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and he said Michael Sheen already got the job.
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Just re-watched Fright Night a couple weeks back. You find out Jerry is actually a vampire pretty early on. The movie doesn't sustain a "Is he really or not?" thread for very long at all.
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He left DW a year and a half ago, and since then has done Hamlet, three movies and a British TV series which is one of BBC1's main fall dramas and has a lot of Bafta buzz. Not to mention he's worked constantly for twenty years and was a highly acclaimed theatre/Shakeapeare actor for years before becoming a TV star. His career is perfectly fine and will continue to be. Probably in ten years people will still be saying, "He left DW for this?" every new job he does.
That's not even his real costume in the film. It's his character's on-stage persona, which he only wears in one scene. For most of the movie he is dressed very differently and does not have the wig and makeup and other stuff on. That's all supposed to be fake. -
....he's definitely on his way to following in the footsteps of the actor who played Evil Ed. Look for McLovin as the lead in "Lick Ass" in a couple years.
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Nothing can replace all those great little moments in the original.
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Get some ideas, Hollywood.
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Best Hamlet in a generation. This is great news: Tennant is a great actor, a great guy and, though he may be built like a ferret, sexy as hell.
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He is an extraordinary stage performer. It is a shame most people only know him from his screen work, because I believe he has the potential to become one of the truly great theatre actors like Olivier and Gielgud. His Jimmy Porter is one of the best things I've ever seen.
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Is the only voice of reason on this entire talkback. How are people inferring whole plotpoints and the quality of the film based on this one shot? Not to mention the guy's appearance is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek send up of douches like Criss Angel and David Blaine anyway.
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Sep 03, 2010 9:30:05 AM CDT
The original lets you know that Dandridge is a vampire
by coughlins laws
within the first 10 minutes. No one else believed it, but the audience is shown.
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Wow. Hollywood just keeps making it easier on spotting a turd.
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Firstly, I read in the script review that it's just an onstage persona. Which means it IS a wig. Secondly, aside from Russell Brand and Gary Oldman in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", he reminds me very much of Dave Gahan in the "Songs of Faith and Devotion" era. Which I have to say, it's so fitting as the other effable Criss Angel type, Drake from "Sorcerer's Apprentice", is mistaken for someone in Depeche Mode, definitely Martin Gore... So it's not QUITE Depeche Mode with those two. :)
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GUNG HO !
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Sep 04, 2010 11:58:00 AM CDT
So when he admits he was paid to go to Jerry Dandridge's house..
by disgruntled_chinaman
he pulls off the goatee and wig? That might work, but unless he does a Twilight show on the Strip, who knows?
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GO DOCT WHOOOOOOO
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The remake is pretty different from the original. Don't expect to see all the same scenes, e.g. the 'vampire test' scene. Peter removes his stage costume really early on.
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He looks like Russell Brand, FFS! What are you on?!
Oh, and fuck this sequel. The only way it couled be any mnore uninspired would have been to cast Michael Cera as Charlie, and some insipid model-turned-actress-whatEVAH as Amy. And there's no way in holy hell Mintz-Plasse (another of the Michael Cera School Of Playing Themselves And Calling It Acting) is going to give this performance anywhere NEAR the levels of pathos, vulnerability and tragedy that Stephen Geoffreys did. His post-FRIGHT NIGHT career may have gone south (pun intended), but he was absolutely amazing as Evil Ed. It's a massive shame he never built on the promise of that performance... -
Oh God - let's hope he isn't like Gahan in that Songs Of... era, 'cos I'll be mopping Mrs Spud-To-Be up with a sponge if that's the case. It's hard enough having to compete with her lust for Eric the Vampire in TRUE BLOOD, but Tennant as Brand as Gahan as well?? I concede defeat...
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We get it - we just knoew it's going to be shit, and are reacting accordingly. Chalk one more up to the Law Of Ever Decreasingly Decent Remakes, because there is no way Marti Noxon is going to make a winner out of this. Have you seen POINT PLEASANT? Yeesh. Great concept, LOUSY execution...
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...is weeping somewhere.
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