[kj] Glenn Close

[Jim Harper]

Fatal Attraction failed for me, not least because of the ending. The original script featured Alex (Close) committing suicide, leaving the guilt with Michael Douglas. John Carpenter was offered the chance to direct, and he thought the script was fine- but turned it down because he felt there was no chance that the original ending would remain unchanged. Sure enough, before the script was offered to another director the ending had been altered to the sanctimonious cop-out ending that was filed, essentially letting Michael Douglas off the hook because Close turned out to be a nutjob.
 
I've no doubt many people here have already seen it, but one of the films that got almost entirely ignored while Fatal Attraction was making millions at the box office was Joseph Ruben's The Stepfather, a scary, brutal, smart thriller that also takes a look at modern family life, but hits the mark a hell of a lot better than Fatal Attraction. If you haven't seen it yet, track it down before the remake hits theatres in October. It's a first-rate cult classic and one of the best unsung heroes of 1980s horror.
 
Sorry for the rant there!
 
Jim.

--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:


She's only worked in one genre as far as I'm concerned - horror. ("The
horror...the horror...")

I never watched Fatal Attraction for that very reason (it also looked like
a bag of shit on its own merits I have to say, but I wouldn't actually
know...), suspension of disbelief that MD would actually have been able to
shag her with a straight...um, face.

She's not actually that bad, just so poorly cast in that movie because
she's NOT that attractive...MD is hardly gonna be missing the good old
days when he worked with actresses of her calibre (.38 snubnose), now he's
stuck at home with frumpy old Catherine Zeta Jones...

I'm sure that the perm was totally violating the manifesto even at the
time...

And just to be fair, I have to point out that I happily watch movies with
Danny DeVito and Ron Perlman and think they're both great. But then I'm
not in the habit off shagging guys, that's my excuse at least.


> I have a lot of time for Glenn Close a an actress, but I do find her

> singularly unattractive. "Fatal Attraction", apart from being a poorer

> remake of the excellent "Play Misty For Me", failed on the very basic

> level

> that GC was so unappealing. The tight perm didn't help. I'm sure the

> argument could be made that FA was making the point that men are so shit

> that they'll ravish anything showing even the vaguest interest, but that

> doesn't really work as a thesis.

>

> Darren

> Hungerford, UK

>

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> I'm talking UGLY. I'd give Glen Close a run for her money. (She'd

> ultimately win, heading me off in the swimsuit round).

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