Rosemarys Baby Digital

Waste of money and time

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I cannot believe this aired on NBC, or any broadcast network. It carries the same malicious heft that the stupendous original did. Dont listen to the critics, they just hate all remakes. I was leary of this one as soon as I heard it was being remade, due to my absolute love of the first. I had nothing to worry about. Zaldana brings her own vibe to Rosemary, something that could have been very easy to foul up. The real stars here are Jason Isaacs and Carole Bouquet. Isaacs is positively devilish in the best of ways, in a role I was sure he was miscast in, boy did he prove me so wrong. Bouquet... where do I start? She is simply astonishing here. Every one of her scenes she shreds like a master. I could watch her and Isaacs in these roles forever! In the end, there are elements of this update that I love more than the original, and that is saying something. Dont hesitate, buy right now!

I thought this was the old version of Rosemary’s Baby. This one takes place in Paris and I couldn’t follow a lot of it. And I hate movies you have to read.

Some movies shouldnt be remade no matter how tempting it is to see Zoe Saldana in her underwear. But, I guess after 46 years NBC figured why not? There is a whole new generation out there, perhaps two, who have no awareness of the original movie (1968), or Ira Levins book (1966) that it was based on. So, we get this glamorous redux, set in Paris no less, with the major characters bearing the same names. I guess Castevet sounds French, no? Of course Guy and Rosemary are Americans in Paris, who soon find themselves enjoying the good graces of the very handsome Castevets. In an interview before the premier, Zoe said it took a great deal of cajones to go back to the classic and give it a bold new look. That would have been fine if the two-part mini-series offered a daring new interpretation. Instead, all we get is a reshuffling of the narrative and characters like a pack of tarot cards, bringing the story up to the 21st century. It seems Zoe was the driving force behind this movie, making it her baby, so to speak, dragging in her siblings as co-producers. Agnieszka Holland appeared to be there to steer things, not direct the movie. It didnt strike me as her style at all. Perhaps the most jarring aspect is the lack of humor, which is what made the original story so disarming. What we get here is a very earnest film with very earnest performances. The devil is made manifest right from the start, so there is no mystery, let alone suspense here. Rather than a doddering coven of old witches, we get immaculately dressed middle-aged witches living in one of the most exclusive addresses in Paris, the Chimera. The building itself looks straight out of the Art Nouveau era. There isnt even a grimy basement where Rosemary first met Terry doing laundry and learned about the Castavets. Instead, we see a woman, apparently of some ancient Turkish descent, jump off the balcony, and Rosemary spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out why. We know this is going to be a sinister movie, and have no trust in the Castevets. Recasting guy as an English professor and writer also wasnt a very wise move. Getting tenure is not something you just happen into, especially at his tender age. Being an actor was perfect, as all it took was a lucky break, which Guy got when a rival actor was all the sudden struck blind. Guy was on his way. Instead, we get a gruesome scene where the apparently much better qualified woman (judging by the stack of books she carries) loses her mind, stabbing the interviewer, with the scene ending in a bloody heap, literally. Where is the wit and cajones here? Of course, young Guy (woodenly played by Patrick J. Adams) gets the job, thanks to Roman who is a professor at the same university and has his connections. The Woodhouses move from their cramped teachers dorm to the Chimera, right into the waiting arms of the Castevets. The creative juices soon start to flow. The good conscience is played by Christina Cole as Julie. She is best friends with Zoe and apparently Guys former lover. Or, was it an act of indiscretion at some point? I wasnt exactly sure. She is an aspiring chef in Paris and gets together with Rosemary in cooking class from time to time. Julie is an amalgamation of several characters from the original story. She senses something is amiss during Ros pregnancy and gets her another doctor, who has the benefit of ultrasound to see the devil within. You know things are not going to end well for Julie. With Hutch out, Zoe or Agnieszka decided to create a police commissioner, Msr. Fontaine, to act as the second voice of conscience. He is well played by Olivier Rabourdin. Youre not quite sure whether he is part of the coven or not. One of the few mysteries in this movie. Zoe comes to put all her faith in him, but it is a foregone conclusion how this film will turn out. The poor commissioner doesnt stand a chance against the likes of the Castevets. Roman and Margaux are quite a departure from the original, but it was a master stroke to cast Carole Bouquet as Margaux. She is ravishing and devious, orchestrating events like the devil herself, although as in the original we find out that Roman is the latest reincarnation of the devil, a lineage he has carried forth in Rosemary. No real surprise here, but Jason Isaacs fits the role well. So, yes, this movie ends the same as did the first, otherwise it wouldnt be Rosemarys Baby.

You cannot improve on the original, but Zoe Saldana is very appealing as the young woman who is taken in unwittingly by a coven that wants her to have a demonic child. Waiting for part two.

very good really enjoyed the movie

Remakes have a place in film and television history, but this remake could not hold a candle to the original masterpiece, either the book by Ira Levin or the film by Roman Polanski. Aspects of the original book and film are clearly dated today, and this remake brought things up to speed as best they could. However, where this falls short is putting a lot of things before you rather than the subtle nuances of the original. Plus, the miniseries died in television 25+ years ago, and giving this the two part treatment of two nights on television really was not necessary. Rosemary Woodhouse (played well by a stronger yet still dainty Zoe Saldana) and her husband Guy have moved to Paris, France as her husbands work has taken them to a university where he hopes to work. One day Rosemary intercepts a mugger who dropped a wallet. Inside the wallet, Rosemary finds the owner, Margo Castevet (updated from the older sounding Minnie). To thank her for being so kind, Margo invites Rosemary and Guy to a party, and from there their friendship begins. In this version, Rosemary is not dismayed by the sudden and generous friendship of the Castevets, but she sees them as equals rather than friendly older people. She finds it a bit odd, but dismisses it ultimately as their new friends being helpful and genuinely interested in her and Guy. Suddenly, Guys rival for the first position chair at the university dies a horrible death, and he is now in the front running for department chair. Things are all of a sudden coming up roses for them and Rosemary is eager to get pregnant and start their family. When she shares this with Margo and Roman, they are caring for her night and day, so excited for her baby to be born. Little does she know that she has been tricked into having the devils child, as Margo and Roman are witches (as well as their friends who are all part of a coven) and are bringing Satan back to the world. The acting was good in this movie, but they added in a few things in for modernization. When Rosemary and Guy learn of the Trench sisters who lived in the apartment building years before practicing cannibalism, we see it rather than are left to imagine. The friends who come to terrible ends who are trying to help her see the truth (ex. Hutch) are seen rather than left in the distance. While all the older people in the witch coven in the original are grey haired, wrinkled and dress out of date, the witch coven tries to make themselves look as young and chipper as possible without looking like residents of an assisted living facility. In general, people do not like to look and act their age anymore. They add in a touch of homosexuality (as its cute and trendy for women to do so now), to see the evil Satan at the moment of conception, and pay homage to Mia Farrows pixie cut when Zoe gets a horrible haircut (which looks terrible on her but gave Mia a certain edge about her at the time.) And, partially due to the fact that the original film was made in the 1960s and the technology did not exist at the time, we never saw the horrible creature that the baby is. In this version, we see the creature, which is a normal looking baby with magnetic blue eyes like his father, Satan. In this version, Rosemary still accepts the fact that this child is hers. I was hoping for something drastically different, but what mother could resist her child? I will give compliments to the fact that this adaptation managed to stay true to the old school kind of horror feeling. Even though full frontal violence is seen, we still get the sense that they are coming for her and her paranoia is real. Moving the scene to Paris, in that sense, was a welcome change from the original, in that in the original you wondered why she didnt go to a friend once she realized everyone was in on it, but it made more sense since she is completely isolated from friends and family who might help her. It will pass a lonely night or rainy afternoon. Have fun with it.

Dont waste your time and money on this remake. Its no comparison to the original Polanski film with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Ruth Gordon. This one was Made for TV and that shows throughout. Production values reveal the budget and shooting schedule constraints in everything from set, props, lighting and costuming to visual and audio special effects. Polanskis film has tight pacing and is compact without sacrificing the story. The result is well-paced and builds suspense to the denouement in the final scene. By comparison, this remake reduces the suspense to near zero, replacing it with unnecessary action and gratuitous violence, the lack of which added to the psychological power and horror achieved in the original. The producers, screenwriters and director completely missed the boat. Rosemarys Baby is a psychological horror story, NOT an action or physical one. Pacing is ruined by the two factors that destroy it in very nearly every Made for TV movie: length thats bloated to fit the time slot(s), and attempts to time plot cliffhangers for every commercial break. Among the worst of all is timing of the overall story for the split between the two parts. As a result, pacing is inconsistent with a story muddled by extraneous fluff. The lack of psychological suspense combined with a pacing that runs in fits and starts for commercial breaks and the two-part split in a story bogged down by unnecessary bloat eventually meanders its way to an anti-climactic final scene. Its an ending that was completely predictable well beforehand and has none of the psychological shock value the 1968 original contains in its denouement. The purpose of this Made for TV remake was ratings sweeps. They network only needed to con the TV viewing audience into watching it one time to achieve that, and it had all manner of hype beforehand. The first part had ratings that OK but nothing to brag about, as they didnt have the desired boost. It showed in the second part several days later with very mediocre ratings as substantial fewer viewers didnt bother to watch it. I recorded it on one of my TiVos and watched it later when I could skip through the commercials. At the end I extremely disappointed, felt it was time utterly wasted, and promptly erased it (versus downloading it to disc for future viewing). That its out on DVD and Blu-ray now is beyond me, but I suppose there are those that can be hoodwinked into buying it on disc if they werent conned into watching it when it was originally broadcast.

I cant wait until the movie comes out on dvd which I bought and be very satisfied with this great show.