SO WHO'S THE BOOGER-EATING MORON? And yet, some upcoming movies shouldn't be anticipated.
Why? Some dingbat with an abacus at Paramount thought it would be a good idea to remake The Bad News Bears, with Academy Award winner William Robert Thornton in the Walter Matthau role and Greg Kinnear (okay, that makes sense) as the evil manager. (And the kid playing Kelly Leak looks right too. But here's Lupus.)
Richard Linklater's directing, which I understand, because (a) School of Rock worked, even though it's a kids formula movie, and (b) he needs to do studio works like this to pay for each Before Sunset he wants to make.
But why this movie? Part of what's so jolting about the original movie was how coarse the language was. To soften it for 2005 would just turn this into School of Baseball and every other "loser team gets good" movie you've ever seen, and to make it even harsher . . . what's the point? And how could you, anyway?
Remakes only make sense when the passage of time helps reveal new truths in a movie, or when there's an actor or a director who can really put a unique stamp on the original material. I just don't see it here.
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