{"id":5637,"date":"2009-09-24T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T04:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:52:31","slug":"new-releases-september-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/new-releases-september-25\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fame2009Poster\"<\/a>1.Fame (MGM, 3,096 Theaters, 107 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>Not a very good week for originality. We have a remake, what seems like it could be a remake, and a graphic novel adaptation. We will eventually come to a time when every film will be a different version of the same film, half of them starring Will Ferrell.<\/p>\n

This is the remake of the 1980 film of the same name. I guess it still revolves around a group of kids at a performing art school.<\/p>\n

The main characters are all unknowns, but the teaching staff appear to be a bunch of quasi-famous names, including at least one carry over from the original in Debbie Allen. So it’s got that going for it.<\/p>\n

One of the most interesting things about this remake is that the original was rated R and this is rated PG. Have we come so far that what was an R in 1980 is now a PG in 2009? Or have they cleaned this up a little to try and appeal to the High School Musical <\/strong>crowd? Let me know, would you?<\/p>\n

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\"SurrogatesPoster\"<\/a>2. Surrogates (Touchstone, 2,951 Theaters, 88 Minutes, Rated PG-13): <\/strong>This would be the comic book adaptation of the bunch. It adapts the 2005 Top Shelf miniseries.<\/p>\n

It is set in the future where humanity lives their lives through\u00a0robotic duplicates. When these duplicates start becoming destroyed, a mystery develops.<\/p>\n

This is a little deeper than your usual comic book film, dealing with the concept of identity in a digital world. Metaphor, proof that comics aren’t just for kids anymore.<\/p>\n

How will this do at the box office? Well, who knows? The concept is good, but if Whiteout <\/strong>is any indication, comic book movies that the general public doesn’t know that much about don’t usually do that well.<\/p>\n

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\"PandorumPoster\"<\/a>3. Pandorum (Overture Films, 2, 506 Theaters, 108 Minutes, Rated R); <\/strong>Finally, we come to the one that should be a remake. Can you guess of which movie?<\/p>\n

The crew of a space-faring ship discovers that there is an “Alien” presence aboard. They struggle to find out what it is and find a way to fight it before they are all dead.<\/p>\n

At least that is what the ads make it out to look like. Perhaps the film doesn’t really resemble Ridley Scott’s Alien <\/strong>at all. I’m sure there is some kind of twist that separates the movies from each other.<\/p>\n

What I am amazed by is that Dennis Quaid is in this. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that he’s getting work, but between this and G.I. Joe<\/strong>, it feels like he is really slumming.<\/p>\n

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