An enormous pterosaur is playing Annie now?
...actually, I would pay to see Annie with dinosaurs. *starts singing "Hard Knock Life" with T. rex roars*
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Quvenzhané Wallis.
I don't understand what's so baffling about her being on Wheel of Fortune, besides perhaps the fact that it means someone out there thinks Wheel of Fortune is popular enough to use to market a major motion picture.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
I know how to spell it. I was just being silly.
Also, Wheel is one of the most popular syndicated shows, like, ever, so it's not a bad platform. The show's also owned by Sony, so both they and Jeopardy! have a long history of whoring out movies from Sony subsidiaries. But usually it's just limited to Wheel doing trailers within the show (usually in line with the prize copy, as the one for Annie yesterday was), and Jeopardy! doing a category about the movie. This is the first time in a while that I've seen Wheel actually rope in one of the actors for a cameo.
(Oddly, I also remember a Wheel episode a few years ago having a trailer for Kung Fu Panda. THAT was weird.)
Fair enough, but "most popular syndicated show" is kinda like being the king of an ant hill these days.
I did not actually know Sony owned Wheel. Huh.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
I didnt know this was based off an existing IP. the impression the trailer gave me was that a mayor or mayoral candidate or politician is using an orphan to garner sympathy points from his consituents. Which is not ok. But maybe I was looking too deeply into it....
edited 3rd Dec '14 8:40:18 PM by Xopher001
It's not okay, and the movie addresses this. Kinda. If nothing else, it make Annie complicit in her use as a political pawn. She even comes up with some of the publicity ideas herself, which gives the character some much-needed agency.
In the original there was no mayoral race and the guy who adopts her just wants to raise his public profile for the hell of it. So if nothing else this one makes more sense.
edited 3rd Dec '14 9:09:01 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Wack'd, if you've seen the film, then I'd like to know this: Does Obama appear in the place of FDR and is he played by Will Smith?
Obama does not appear. Annie gives a report on FDR in school.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Still just awesome like that
How did you even get to see it so early?
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Uniocular
Confirmed Wack'd is the real Daddy Warbucks.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Well, I am going bald. And I definitely wasn't alive when FDR was reelected for the final time. So I guess it's possible.
But then, I love things besides money and power and capitalism
, which is a point against me.
edited 4th Dec '14 3:10:32 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Pirate AND writer!
It got leaked, actually. About a week ago.
Looking for some stories?
I heard about that. Apparently it's North Korea giving the middle finger to Hollywood for that Seth Rogan movie :P
(x7)Missed opportunity of the decade. Smith is even producing this movie...
edited 4th Dec '14 8:52:31 AM by Tuckerscreator
Still just awesome like that
What, the Sony leak? Yeah, I guess that's an explanation, but eh, stopping this rant before it even starts.
edited 4th Dec '14 1:38:34 PM by Odd1
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It doesn't have Tim Curry, Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters.
Well, yeah, but it does have a stronger plot and more genuine emotional interactions between the characters. I think that's a fair trade off.
Plus, a pair of brilliant comedians do get a hilarious cameo if you keep your eyes open for it. Any fans of Clone High, 21 Jump Street, or The Lego Movie in here?
edited 4th Dec '14 8:31:23 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Plot? It's based on a musical based on a comic strip.
And the original has a better plot:
Girl gets adopted by rich guy. Flim flam artists pose as parents to get reward. That's the story - very basic, and stronger.
Adding garbage is how you come up with the recent Dr Seuss adaptations.
edited 4th Dec '14 8:34:18 PM by AnotherGuy
I know it's hard to tell in today's newspaper landscape but loads of comics used to have strong overarching plotlines, and Annie hails from that era.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Uniocular
Because it's not like musicals and comic strips can have great plots.
I'll just be over here with the dreadful plot in Next to Normal.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
...I've not seen Next to Normal, but the guy who wrote it wrote If/Then, so, um...eeeeeeeeeeh?
edited 4th Dec '14 8:35:11 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Uniocular
Next to Normal is so much better than that.
It probably doesn't quite understand how schizophrenia works, but it's still good.
Though really I just cited it because Wicked would be cliche.
edited 4th Dec '14 8:36:50 PM by Mukora
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Yeah, I've had loads of friends tell me so. Clearly my mom picked the wrong Tomm Kitt/Brian Yorkey show to take me to, but all the same I can't help but be biased against them, If/Then was just that bad.
The girl playing the title role, Quetzalcoatl or however you spell her name, made a cameo on Wheel of Fortune last night.
Wut.