I'm sorry, I know I'm repeating myself, but...

[filthgoblin]

There just seems to be no escape from the epic fail that is the movie remake of State of Play. If I could just quietly ignore it and go about my day, then I might feel less seethingly angry than I do right now when I've just been offered FREE FUCKING TICKETS to go see it and say how amazingly wonderful it is. I kid you not.

The sales patter for the movie included in the email I received trying to coerce me to volunteer over two hours of my life I will never get back, read as follows:

Oscar® winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder and collusion among some of the nation's most promising political and corporate figures in State of Play, from acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland).

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both an old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron (Oscar® winner Helen Mirren), who has assigned him to investigate. As he and partner Della (Rachel McAdams) try to uncover the killer's identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation's power structures. And in a town of spin-doctors and wealthy politicos, he will discover one truth: when billions are at stake, no one's integrity, love or life is ever safe.

Can anyone please tell me if they recognise anything apart from the names as bearing any resemblance to the plot of a show that I love so much? Or am I going completely insane?

Comments

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

Okay, having calmed down a little and re-read the blurb again, I can see your point about the first paragraph, but it breaks down in the second for me. I know I'm probably nitpicking unnecessarily about a film that I'm never going to see, but they've upped Stephen's standing from a promising Senator/MP to the party's next Presidential/Prime Ministerial candidate. In fact, comparing a Prime Ministerial candidate in a British context doesn't even stack up against being a Presidential candidate as a PM candidate wouldn't have anything like the world standing of a Presidential candidate. Couple that with the fact that they've shifted the focus from the oil and the environment to defense makes it very different for me.

I know I'm probably getting tedious with my vitriol on this subject, and this is likely the last time I'll mention it. If you've seen good reviews that made you smile, then that's great. All the reviews I've seen, however, say that this is just another average thriller and likely to be forgettable, which is so far removed from my feelings on the original and the reaction I've seen from anyone I've introduced it to.

At the end of the day, I know it's just a TV show/movie and not really srs bsns. I don't even know why I'm getting so worked up about it really. The whole thing just tastes bad to me.

I'll shush now.