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Post by stephen on Aug 18, 2020 22:14:45 GMT
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Aug 18, 2020 22:50:21 GMT
Ha, surprising choice for a remake as a TV series. Could be neat. Hopefully it gets more eyes on the original.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2023 23:21:51 GMT
April 21st
www.indiewire.com/2023/02/dead-ringers-rachel-weisz-premiere-date-1234809806/Less than a year after David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” made a splash at Cannes, one of the body-horror master’s most famous films is getting the streaming TV treatment. “Dead Ringers,” a six-episode remake of the Canadian filmmaker’s 1988 feature, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 21, it was announced Tuesday. (TVLine first shared the news.) Rachel Weisz stars in the series as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, two identical twin sisters who both work as gynecologists and operate a successful OBGYN clinic. In the original ’80s film, Beverly and Elliot were male twins portrayed by Jeremy Irons. Like the film, the series will explore Beverly and Elliot’s messy, co-dependent relationship, and how the tension it causes eventually pushes both to madness. Weisz is joined in the cast by Britne Oldford, Michael Chernus, Poppy Liu, and Jennifer Ehle.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 28, 2023 21:04:54 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 14, 2023 14:16:26 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 29, 2023 15:47:59 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 29, 2023 16:24:29 GMT
tonally I have no idea what to expect from this but I hope it's as discomforting as the original. I'll never forget how my stomach dropped when Beverly unveiled those gyno tools that looked like something out of an H.R. Giger nightmare. This show needs *at least* one moment like that, and I'm not really getting that from this trailer. Seems more speculative sci-fi and less psychological thriller, but we'll see... I just wanna be grossed-out.  Weisz looks great. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 29, 2023 16:46:27 GMT
It's a good trailer but the sexual element is getting lost in that trailer - and that's a huge deal
In the OG Bev and Elliot are not for example "gay" - overtly - but rather use the dominant and weaker sides inherent in their heterosexuality (ew straight guys, j/k) make-up to both "fnck" Claire and fnck with Claire ....ie the two make "one" person .........but also to fnck with the (medical) establishment too ...it is ingenious in the OG in the way homosexuality constantly bubbles up (the "girls names" - Beverly & Ellie (Elliot), "going back" to Elliot rather than the female)
That 2 sides things plays out throught the film and makes less sense with a female lead maybe - are both them going to be gay then? That seems like quite a reach and too on point........and so does that "Is captialism that bad?" line (No it's not thnx4asking) ......but reading too much into a trailer may be the thing here and the drama is fine too.....
Weisz looks kinda awesome ......
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Post by notacrook on Apr 21, 2023 17:04:00 GMT
Really liked the first episode of this. Weisz is excellent and immediately makes Beverley and Elliott feel like two distinct characters (beyond whether her hair is up or down). It's definitely got the gore, and there's a general energy and aggression to it that I really liked. There's definitely room for it to get more fucked up - I'm sure it will.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 22, 2023 6:49:37 GMT
A slight disappointment - something like a B minus for me.....and it gets some individual scenes so right - the rest doubly (no pun) disappoints
This show has some spectacular but insular acting from Weisz - and also Jennifer Ehle too - but removed from the film's logical and precise arc - this material goes from "masterpiece" (Cronenberg's take) to an insanely waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much talking contrivance .....the movie was uncomfortable and frightening - and lean - this show is just kind of gross and redundant overall.
It's unfair to compare this to the film but this goes so far away from the movie in lesser ways you have to compare in a bad way .....the feminist spin on this is tbh lesser - less interesting and actually less reflective of gender within this drama too ......or at least this precise drama.......and less able to be conveyed without hammering you over the head and that also goes for the shows humor elements which at first are striking ........and later becomes quite strident
The horror has mostly been lost here.....
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