Steel Magnolias : 2 reasons this will fail

2 reasons this will fail

Ok, in my opinion there are two reasons that this movie will most likely not do very well. One is the casting. I love Queen Latifah and Phylicia Rashad as much as the next person. And Alfre Woodard is always amazing in everything she does. But, there is just NO WAY that any of these women can live up to the original cast. I mean, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts? These women just are not going to be able to outshine them no matter how hard they try. Two, Lifetime. Lifetime takes the drama and suspense out of everything. So, this verson of Steel Magnolias will most likely be watered down and sickingly over-the-top sweet. Then again, it hasn't come out yet so maybe I'll be wrong and it'll be good.

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You know I'm ok with the casting. If you think about it alot of high schools do versions of movies all the time. What I'm upset about is these women Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, and Phylicia Rashad forgot how to act. They are delivering their lines as if it's their first time in front of the camera. Oscar Nominated women, Emmy Award winners and judging from the trailer the acting was HORRENDOUS! If you are going to remake such a cult classic with legendary black actresses brava. Just remember the act in actresses. Seems they forgot.

I'm pretty disappointed and not gonna watch based on the trailer.

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Doquinn, why does it matter if some lame high school "does versions of movies all the time"? (LOL) This was a PLAY originally. And high school plays are lame.

How do you know how they are delivering their lines? It hasn't aired yet.

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I think that Phylicia, and Alfre would hold their own. To me it's the other women in the cast. As far as the acting people need to realize that this is a different film with different actresses so they will be delivering their lines in a whole different manor. That doesn't make it bad. QF isn't much of a actress to me. She's good but she tries to hard, and it normally shows.

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OMG !!!! Lets wait until we see it first, before we blow it out of the water!

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I agree that these women can't outshine the original because they're not the original women. I may have only seen the original once, but that was enough times for me to understand how classic the film is and how great the story was told using actresses such as Sally Field and Julia Roberts.I think that some people are failing to understand that if these women were trying to be like the original, then the remake wouldn't have it's own uniquenes, it would be (I guess how some people may have put it) a copy of the original just with black actresses and not as interesting. I'm not saying that one group of actresses is better than the other, all I'm saying is that they're both unique and special in their own way and that the purpose of a remake is to tell the same story as the original, but to tell it in a different form.

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Based solely on promos, this version is not going to be that good. All of the people casted are amazing, when They are able to play to their strengths. I will have to watch to be sure, but casting these particular people means the current execs don't really understand what the story is really about.

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1) The first film was based on the play which was based on a true story about the author's sister. Who wasn't African American, so that might be in some people's minds.

2) It's been done! Remake the bad ones, like Jon Waters says!


3) There should be better projects for an all African-American films than rehashing something done with all Caucasian actors. It's like, "Well, we don't have anything original but i guess we could re make something"

4) It's on LIFETIME. Television for women... who are abused and think watching movies about other abused women because..... because.....

no clue why it even exists. Bleh. These actresses are worth SOOO much better!

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2 reasons this will fail...

1)There's always Someone talking down on a movie before it comes out influencing other potential viewers...

2) Haters. See statement above.


I think I'll watch it first before I form an opinion, instead of choosing to not tune in at all. It obviously piqued your interest enough for you to post (original poster), but instead of watching first you choose to talk bad about it (see statement #2 above).

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Regarding your first point, it was Robert Harling, the playwritght's, idea to do an all black remake. If he is okay with it, what say do we have?

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Like someone else just said not long ago, you probably should actually watch it first before judging it. I HATE when people do that. Saying a movie is going to fail or is going to be bad without having seen it. I just watched it and thought it was really good.
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