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AHH!!! 9 to 5!

posted 19 years ago by gotmlk
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I know this isn't the exact same thing, but it is pretty close to the movie 9 to 5. It seems like they watched and said, "Hey, we can tweak this a bit." Me being black, I don't understand why black folks just can't come up with something on their own instead of remaking old movies from the 80s or 70s. It has happened too much. I needs to stop. We are creative people. We should be able to come up with movies on our own (As long as they aren't called "Bringing Down the House")

[–] Leod 19 years ago

It's ironic that a non-american viewer like me KNOWS that this film is -in all the senses- an ADAPTATION of O.Henry's short story "The Ransom of Red Chief", that was turned on the big screen at least TWICE. An that's without saying the Zaz's comedy Ruthless People (Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold...Do you remember that?) it's TOO an ADAPTATION of the same story. It's all about "hey, make it again but a colored cast...so we catch another audience".

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[–] gotmlk 19 years ago

I know you're probably foreign...but the term colored pertaining to black people isn't used anymore in America and it's pretty offensive...I'm just saying.

[–] skyvolt2000 19 years ago

Ransom of the Red Chief was also remade into Beverly HIlls Brats with Peter Billingsley in 1989. Isn't this movie suppose to be out already? Smooth magazine has it coming out March 4. I haven't heard a thing about it until now.

[–] alzon490 19 years ago

I'm colored, from New Jersey, and no I don't refer to people of African decent as colored either.However, 2 B offended by the terminology "colored" when refering to PEOPLE OF COLOR is ridiculous.Get over yourself and stop being so meticulous!

[–] Leod 17 years ago

Just for the record: Of course I'm not american (well, I was born and live in Argentina, so I'm american too since Argentina IS in America, the name of a continent with three parts, but...never mind). And yes, even if I tried to be ironic with "colored", I did'nt know it was offensive. Here in my country there is not racial discrimination but economic discrimination, so there are a few things about you, North-Americans, that I can't achieve. But in a way, you undestood my poor english, so we can communicate.

By the way, in Argentina some friends call me "negro" and it's a way to show me love and respect.

[–] exalpha2 19 years ago

I just saw this commercial and started thinking instantly "I KNOW this movie!" And it's more a remake of "Ruthless People" than anything. As a matter of fact I came to the site just to check the premis of the movie when I saw this thread.