God alone knows what John Cusack is thinking these days, sullying his once minty fresh, high fidelity screen persona with crud like 2010 and America’s Sweethearts. Fortunately it looks like he might be back on the winning horse as he and the three unlikeliest friends ever to grace the screen head back to the 80’s in new comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. Sure it’s stupid, but the decade that gave us the haystack rule of sexuality (the higher the hair, the sexier the woman…) was responsible for some of the gnarliest movie dialogue ever -so make sure you’re prepared with the new Hot Tub time Machine iPhone App!
Combining seemingly senseless words like ‘great white buffalo’ and ‘Twittagra’ will make sure you’re the most annoying person in your office for at least the next fortnight -get over to the Apple store and bag yours now!
Hollywood studios are renowned for relentless tinkering, middle managers and yes men sticking their oar in and befuddling a perfectly good script with Star Cameos, Product Placement and Giant Mechanical Spiders, usually resulting in a hopeless chud-fest that leaves the cinema crowd vomiting their bile all over the internet. It’s ruined careers – Joel Schumacher take a bow – and in some cases even bought studios to their knees – we’re looking at you Heaven’s Gate.
But just occasionally, it can be a good thing.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking you through some truly great movies, and showing you how totally crappy they’d have been if a few faceless suits hadn’t rocked up, treated the writers like shit and the director like a moron, and totally changed everything!
First up, a faultless 80s classic that got out alive: Back To The Future.
Robert Schwentke obviously faced a tough job adapting Niffenegger’s rich, layered novel for the screen, and while it often feels both lacking in depth and overcrowded, Hapless Time-Jumper Henry’s struggle to build a relationship with Clare, remains intact, and it’s here that the film genuinely scores points.
