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09-05-2003, 03:37 PM
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I was just at www.darkhorizons.com and saw this preview of a new movie.
SECONDS- The story of a man who is given the chance at rebirth by a group called the Seconds Company. For a price, they can surgically alter you to resemble anyone on the planet, and insert you into that person's life. What happens though if you start to regret your decision?
This sounds a lot like an episode from the 2002 version of the Twilight Zone. Here is the TZ synopsis:
FUTURE TRADE- Martin Donner, a beset-upon hardware clerk, finds out about a company called "Future Trade" that arranges a trade between two people who want to trade their futures and their lives with each other. Donner agrees and trades with a businessman with a rich, expensive life with an attractive girlfriend named Francesca. However, after the deadline passes for him to back out, he finds out the reason the businessman traded lives.
Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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09-05-2003, 03:54 PM
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Heck, sounds an awful lot like a John Frankenheimer movie starring Rock Hudson (although that one didn't feature people being inserted into already-existing lives).
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09-05-2003, 03:58 PM
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Heck, sounds an awful lot like a John Frankenheimer movie starring Rock Hudson
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Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar. 
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09-06-2003, 02:33 PM
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Sounds like deja vu, encore  |
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09-07-2003, 11:34 AM
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What Frankenheimer movie is that?
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09-07-2003, 12:38 PM
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SECONDS, starring Rock Hudson and directed by John Frankenheimer. One of the better science-fiction films around, it's both thoughtful and frightening.
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09-07-2003, 08:28 PM
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Well, I wouldn't go that far. The science in it is goofy, and the restored (longer) version seemed interminable at points both times I saw it in the past year. This is one I think could actually benefit from a remake; I always felt that when the guy was made young, his environment still seemed a little stiff. It might be enjoyable to see the movie cut loose, and really give the feeling that the Rock Hudson character is out of place.
Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.
"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
"If I feel even one bullet hit me, I will rip your lungs out through your nostrils!" - Ron Silver as himself, "Heat Vision And Jack"
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09-07-2003, 09:33 PM
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I didn't say best, I said better (think Top 25 science fiction films) .
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I always felt that when the guy was made young, his environment still seemed a little stiff.
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Well, I think that's because it was a *manufactured* environment where all of the seconds live. After all, it's revealed during the film that a lot of the seconds end up rejecting it as Hudson does. And the man in charge - Will Geer - of the whole thing is still "old", so that certainly explains that the process isn't very good, it's a good way to make a lot of money.
I think any remake of the story would never end it the way the original does... and it's a *great* ending.
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09-08-2003, 06:21 PM
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If they remade it, it could be called TRADING FACES |
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