has anyone sat thru 'swept away' ?

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and is it really as bad as it's meant to be ?

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw some of the original! in Italian!

it too is rubbish.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Now, Spirited Away, theres another kettle of fish altogether . . . .

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Quite right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

it does feature the best line in cinema ever:

"You ugly social democratic whore!"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I rented the Wertmuller original years ago. It is kind of shocking how the rich bitch falls for deck boy or whatever he is after he slaps her around so much and verbally abuses her; I don't recall him getting that much bad treatment before the tables were turned. And the heavy political theme didn't really resonate with me, but probably not that many Americans identify with a socialist main character either. I think it had pretty location photography.

The remake sounds like a cool idea you have when you're stoned or something. I mean sure, I can picture Madonna in that role. But to actually spend the money and go through with it and make the movie?? If I recall, Wertmuller had a real socialist agenda to push, and that's what drove the making of the film. I can't imagine Ritchie and Madonna have the same agenda. I didn't see the remake, btw.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Most of Wertmuller's other movies push a vaguely socialist agenda, but in The Seduction of Mimi, Giancarlo Giannini's character falls in with the socialists just because he's after Lena Wertmuller and eventually becomes pretty disillusioned with the whole thing.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was thinking about this film, and then yesterday quoted a line from the trailer to Knockaround Guys, and wondered when oh when is that film coming out here, and then walking past the video store on the way home saw posters advertising the presence of both of them. Oh well.

As today's Onion says, "DVD Contains 87 Minutes Of Previously Unseen Movie"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just remembered that I talked about this movie for 5 minutes with my mother while drunk at my cousin's wedding in Santa Barbara. Despite not having seen either version. Oh dear.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

can't be worse than the original!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

It really seems like No one has seen it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked the original! Haven't seen Madge's and don't really plan to.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am going to rent and watch this verboten work.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's horrible. The guy isn't bad, though. He deserves a better movie. He is the son of the guy in the original. I kinda like the original, but I'm not a big wertmuller fan. I've been a madonna fan/watcher for like 20 years now and she still makes me cringe. Records=beautiful. Videos=great! Everything else? She makes me want to hide my eyes like i'm a little kid watching a horror movie. All her press appearances make me want to hide under the sofa. I have hours of old videotape that is like a worst-of. Madonna on Arsenio making me cringe. Madonna on nightline making me cringe. Letterman. MTV. It's endless. And fascinating as well of course. The weird accent. All of it. I find it so hard to believe that a woman with that much money can't find someone who can teach her how to act like a human being in a movie. It's so strange. I mean that's how bad she must be. I can't believe that she would allow that movie to come out with her looking the way she does in it, either. She looks truly bizarre. Not just old/no makeup/harshly lit-which is true, too-but like an alien or something. Like nobody that you would ever want to see in a movie! Oh, I could go on, but I gotta run.

― Scott Seward, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Abel Ferrara's comments on her performance in his film Dangerous Game are amusing. He said he's never met anyone who was moer selfconscious in front of a camera, and eventually he decided to incorporate this discomfort into the character rather than try any harder to get Madonna to act.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, than maybe she should work with more freakish junkies who like to make people squirm. Too bad it's my least favorite movie of his. It would go, Ms.45, King of New York, Driller Killer, Bad LT., the Addiction, The Funeral, China Girl, Miami Vice Pilot, and some others I can't think of and way, way, way, way, at the end would be dangerous game. too bad annabella sciorra didn't play that part. It might have been watchable. And I love Madonna, mind you!!!!!

― Scott Seward, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie sued over panned 2002 remake of Swept Away
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawsuit alleging that Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, stole the idea for the 2002 film remake of Swept Away will go to court May 4.
In the lawsuit, Vincent D’Onofrio, self-described singer, songwriter, director and actor, alleges Madonna and Ritchie took his idea for a remake of the 1975 Italian comedy and then cut him out of the credits and compensation.
D’Onofrio is not the actor of the same name who plays Det. Bobby Goren on NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
The movie, which bombed at the box office and was panned by critics, was directed by Ritchie and starred Madonna as a wealthy woman stranded on a desert island with a sailor.
D’Onofrio sued Madonna, Ritchie and Sony Pictures in Superior Court in October 2002, claiming he pitched the idea to Madonna in April 1997 and had several meetings with her and Ritchie.
Lawyers for the couple have said D’Onofrio has no proof of a contract with Madonna or Sony. D’Onofrio’s lawyer said he would seek $10 million in damages.

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

"Hey that shitty idea was mine!"

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

I tried to watch this. Lasted about 5 minutes even with Jeanne Tripplehorn.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

I have seen this movie 4 times in the last month. I find it strangely enthralling.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

In a train wreck kind of way? Or am I missing something? My first impression is that it's like L'Avventura in color - which is very wrong.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't think it was so bad. The part where they were on the boat seemed to drag on and on. I loved the way it was shot and I actually found the ending quite sad. Madonna is pretty horrible in it, but like above, I just chose to believe it was the character that was one dimensional and stiff. I also found it fascinating that no one involved in the movie put any kind of stop to it while it was in production. Who exactly are their friends?

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

Meh. I think Wesley Snipes' blonde hair is a little 'over the top'. But it was a decent movie overall.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I never provide comments close to being remotely constructive...so why start now?

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

I have seen this movie 4 times in the last month. I find it strangely enthralling.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link

original is great, maddening, jarring, hilarious. never saw the remake.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link

comments on madonna being too self conscious to make comfortable watching otm. Tbf everything about this is awful, not just her.

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

im watching this right now... i cant believe ritchie's career recovered from this

the male lead is actually pretty good

― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link

now there's a montage of laughing and running on a beach set to 'fade into you'... i dont think i can finish this...

― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link

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