Is It Just Me, Or Is The Upcoming Musical Remake Of 8 1/2 Actually The Devil?

[Rat-Bat-Spider]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5_lzags3I

Okay, so I just saw this trailer for this MUSICAL remake of Fellini's 8 1/2. Now, I know that the screenplay was based on a play which was based on 8 1/2, much like how the script itself was written in ink provided by a printer, but you can't say that the ink or the printer wrote this poopy screenplay, so I would call this a remake. And just watching it, I had a very, very adverse reaction to it, and my ire popped up like an angry ocean god rising from the sea. Am I wrong to think this is a horrible idea, the melding of classic Italian cinema and jazz-hand musical kitsch? Am I too set in my ways to see that this is somehow genius, and I just can't comprehend it? Please talk amongst yourselves; I can't figure this out alone!!! :(

[Rev. Powell]

Wow... the idea does seem really wrong.  I have low expectations, but I'd be willing to give it a chance like any other movie.  I'm not one who believes it's automatically blasphemous to remake anything; you're just setting the bar a lot higher when you're tackling a classic. I could give a musical remake of CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA or EVIL DEAD 2 the benefit of the doubt.     

In other words, I still think it's you that's actually the devil. 

[Rat-Bat-Spider]

You're probably right; and I didn't find it so blasphemous that they remade the film, but rather that it was a musical; it just doesn't fit the tone at all. And when I say that I'm playing the film All That Jazz in my head, one of the most atonal and baffling movies I've seen in some time. It's just a perplexing thing to me; perhaps it's my own aesthetic sensibilities that turns me off to that sort of thing, but Nine really clips me in a part of my brain where fire and thunder make their home.

And, for the record, I can't in good conscience be the Devil considering my staunch atheism (conflict of interests), and if this movie isn't the Devil then I pass the crown around to Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt Energy Drink (Asian Experience flavor) as the most dastardly thing to grace my presence recently. Avaunt and quit my sight, naturally-flavored energy beverage!

[Rev. Powell]

I'm not really into musicals anyway, so it's hard for me to give them a fair shake.  I'm sure there are a few that are good.  The concept sounds bad, but as I say, I'll keep an open mind. 

And you're right: Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt Energy Drink is a better candidate for the devil than you are!