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Same Time Next Year remake?


The plot seems to be pretty much the same.

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It absolutely is "Same Time Next Year" but a 21st century version thereof. It is the affair of a mobile society -- of extensive travel, cell phones, emails and texts. I wouldn't call it "tripe" as someone did on this board. However, the development of the characters was by no means as intense as STNY. And I think it is because the passage of time in this movie is much less precise, much less noticable; you really can't easily gauge how much time is going by, to the extent that I actually thought Emma was already born when they first met. But when you have several years go by between each tryst portrayed on screen, as in STNY, characters have to change on the screen somewhat drastically, and then those characters have to react and interact with the changed character with whom they are sleeping. In this movie, it is more like we are watching a relationship that is just developing slowly, which tells me that not a lot of years have gone by. And that belief is supported by the fact that neither character appears to have physically changed much. In any respect, both movies have that feeling of tension that extramarital affairs just seem to engender. And that makes for good story-telling. You can't help but wonder how this relationship is going to turn out.

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Same Time Next Year develops the story for 40 or 50 years... With two legendary actors... There's no comparison... This should have been called '28 Hotel Rooms Later', because at the end of it, they are zombies. It's all flash, MTV, hot and sexy... all style, no substance.. too bad because it seemed like it could be a modern retelling of STNY, but it ended up feeling like soft porn... oh well

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Thanks for pointing out what it could've been a remake from. I don't really see the soft porn perspective, I think it just showed what it was. It wasn't gratuitous, or unnecessary or flagrantly sexual. It was part of the story.

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Not by a long shot-that film was great, this was garbage!

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