 About
the only thing I have to look forward to is the opening of the remake of George Pal's
1960 version of H.G. Well's The Time
Machine, starring Guy
Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen, the Time Traveler. I don't expect it to
do all that well, as anyone who remembers the original is going to
compare it badly, and anyone who hasn't seen it already is going to
think it's pretty old hat. I expect to like it though, but heck...I
liked A.I.
OK, so after you're through deciding what
you think about the Time Machine, travel back to yesteryear with the new digitally enhanced version of ET:
Digitally Enhanced Spec. Ed. Drew Barrymore will once
again torment the alien by making him dress up in doll clothes, and for
once, any fat she may show will be baby fat.  I
guess it's only fair to include the Anne Rice based Vampire thriller, Queen
of the Damned, even though I hate Vampire Movies. For some
reason, the vampire Lestat awakens the baddest vampire bitch of all
time, and then the forces of evil and not so evil have to get it
together to put her back to sleep. This was a reasonably cursed movie
from the start; they couldn't get Tom Cruise to play Lestat, Anne Rice
wanted to do the screenplay so badly she offered to do it for free, but
they wisely decided that they couldn't afford her, and shortly after
principal photography wrapped, Aaliyah, who plays the title role, died
in a plane crash. They called in her brother, Rashad Haughton, to
overdub her voice during editng. Film of the Damned, seems more
like it.
David Marsh
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