{"id":7697,"date":"2010-03-29T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2018-11-09T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:45:31","slug":"cinematic-swipe-sixteen-hot-tub-time-machine-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/29\/cinematic-swipe-sixteen-hot-tub-time-machine-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic Swipe: 16 Hot Tub Time Machine Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be it coincidence or homage or the outright hope that they don\u2019t get caught aping someone else\u2019s movie, filmmakers have been replicating the work of those who have gone before them for some time now. Every now and then we like to stop and point out one of those instances.*<\/em><\/p>\n

Open this past weekend to a surprisingly low box office gross of $13 million, Hot Tub Time Machine<\/strong> sends four guys back to 1986 via the titular jacuzzi with the expected comedic results. To help set the mood, director Steve Pink has peppered the film with a number of references to teen comedies and dramedies of the `80s. Some are extremely subtle, but others are much more obvious. But no reference is more apparent than the scene where John Cusack\u2019s character spends some time getting to know Spin<\/em> magazine reporter April played by Lizzy Caplan. Pink decided to stage the scene in a way extremely familiar to anyone who has seen John Hughes\u2019s Sixteen Candles<\/strong>. (And that\u2019s a lot of people.)<\/p>\n

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As the scene comes late in Hot Tub Time Machine<\/strong>, I won\u2019t spoil it by comparing it directly to the scene in Sixteen Candles<\/strong>. Suffice it to say, though, that there is a similar romantic tension, which Pink shorthands for us with the reference.<\/p>\n

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*And in the spirit of the swipe, we readily acknowledge that we were \u201cinspired\u201d by a similar feature over at Rich Johnson\u2019s comic book news and gossip site, Bleeding Cool.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be it coincidence or homage or the outright hope that they don\u2019t get caught aping someone else\u2019s movie, filmmakers have been replicating the work of those who have gone before them for some time now. [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1695],"tags":[7888,2545,629,756,1885,2546],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"tag-cinematic-swipe","9":"tag-hot-tub-time-machine","10":"tag-john-cusack","11":"tag-john-hughes","12":"tag-sixteen-candles","13":"tag-steve-pink"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t