Hah! Yeah the movie's awesome, because it has Shia LaDouche.

Good flick.

Bring on the Shia hate.

Jim Carrey does a pretty good Jimmy Stewart too.

/see, I would bring the Shia hate, but it's really not worth getting too angry about the next C. Thomas Howell

greatgodyoshi

Wasn't Michael J Fox, when he was younger and not so jerky, talked about as portraying Stewart in a biopic? Supposedly he had the voice down pat. Maybe the Parkinsons helped?

Nope, originally Michael J Fox was going to star as James Cagney in a biopic about his amazing life. Cagney approved of it and hoped that he would live long enough to be able to help and see the movie.

It was never made.

Gunny Highway: Based on the commercials, I always thought Disurbia was just Spielberg's modern remake of Rear Window. It is news to me that it isnt a remake.

Has anyone seen it? And can you speak to similarities and differences.

I've seen both. I rented this film when I heard he was going to be in Indy 4. They put a few interesting twists on the story.

First Shia character witnessed his dad's death in a fishing accident. A year later, he's an angry young punk slacker, and punches out a teacher who used the old "What would your father think now" on him.

As a result-he gets put on house arrest. He's not allowed to go to school. He's not allowed to leave his yard without setting off the alarms. Despite this he manages to snag the pretty girl next door without coming across like a stalker.

So in his boredom, he starts spying on the neighborhood and listening to the news. He sees his neighbor across the way come home with a damaged mustang....and hears about a possible serial killer who's only link was a damaged mustang.

Throw in a cop who's assigned his neighborhood, and had to deal with his shenanigans before. The Villain is especially smart and has a pretty cool set up in his house.

There was some nicely done tense scenes a few action bits..and Shia had a few "Harrison Ford" moments (Especially when he got angry at his best friend) that probably made Spielberg go "Hey I found Indy's Son!"

It's worth a rental, at the very least
It's no Alfred Hitchcock film, but better than what it should have been.

This is the reason I didn't see Disturbia in the theaters -- Rear Window is my favorite film of all time and the trailers made it obvious that Disturbia was a rip-off of the story. And as a film snob it annoyed me that most of the kids going to see it had no idea.

HOWEVER, I rented it later and ended up enjoying it a lot, so I've forgiven them.


Also, Tropic Thunder and Galaxy Quest were rip-offs of Three Amigos, which took a lot of its story from The Seven Samurai, which also influenced The Magnificent Seven...

This reminds me of when The Island was coming out. I commented to a friend that it was just a rip of Parts: The Clonus Horror, and we thought it was odd that they'd re-make a movie so bad that MST3k ripped it.

When, months later, the Clonus owners sued, I thought it was hysterical. The fact that they dropped the lawsuit when The Island made no money, that's just comedy gold.ac

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the lawsuit against Michael Bay's The Island, which was an even more rip off of The Clonus Horror?

Mugato: Speaking of which, whatever happened to the lawsuit against Michael Bay's The Island, which was an even more rip off of The Clonus Horror?

Settled, out of court, allegedly for seven figures (but the number is sealed). Basically, they stopped pushing for a full injunction (which was really just extortion for $10 million+) once the movie tanked in theaters.