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I screened this today and thought of an alternate version

posted 7 years ago by traderjo
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So, I work at a town library. Every couple of weeks we screen a movie for the senior citizens.
About an hour into the screening I start getting just a little bit restless. Granted, not a plot or drama heavy film so my brain started getting a little antsy.

I began imagining an alternate version of the movie where Geoff was truly traveling to Switzerland to unearth his former love's body from the ice, only to re-animate it through Dr. Frankenstein like experiments. The story would then become a comedy of errors as Geoff has to juggle his marriage with his current wife with his re-animated love from the past.

Or maybe I would've just liked it better if they trimmed a few minutes off the existing version 😃

[–] Paavo_porraspuro 7 years ago

Yeah, and add a few action scenes and explosions. Maybe a decent car-chase, and a grand romantic gesture that falls flat in the end. Also spice up the sex scene a bit, it was too anti-climactic. Like, literally. Wouldn't have minded a twist at the end where Geoff turns out to be Katya who has changed sexes after Geoff died at the mountain. Otherwise, an okay flick.

[–] traderjo 7 years ago

Michael Bay is already planning the remake.

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[–] waldenpond88 7 years ago

Please NO remake. This was already bad enough the way it was done.

[–] maenad-3 7 years ago

traderjo: I just watched this film, feeling very depressed by the heavy realism of Kate's painful emergence of insight into her husband's past. Like you I relieved the unease by creating a fantasy scenario regarding the preserved ice lover. Geoff hies off to the glacier, where Katya's body has just been freed from the gelid sepulchre. Scientists do an autopsy and discover that the fetus can be revived. Katya, sadly, has died from a blow to her head due to the fall. So now Geoff and Kate are parents to a new-born, 50-year old infant whom they name George. Geoff starts taking millions of photos to make up for lost time. Chris the postman, new father of twins, has agreed to raise George after the two have passed on.