I just saw it tonight. It was one of the best scary movies I've seen in a long time.

4/13/2007 11:18:28 PM

I enjoyed it a lot when I saw it in 1954.

4/13/2007 11:20:16 PM

^

4/13/2007 11:20:50 PM

^^

4/14/2007 12:02:45 AM

^^^

4/14/2007 12:03:05 AM

^^^^

4/14/2007 12:07:07 AM

so a bad jimmy stewart remake?

4/14/2007 12:08:29 AM

^^^^^^

and I bet the Simpsons did it better

[Edited on April 14, 2007 at 4:10 AM. Reason : qfr]

4/14/2007 4:08:31 AM

HOLES!

4/14/2007 8:00:17 AM

Really somebody in this thread saw it in 1954, man you guys are old.

4/14/2007 11:13:01 AM

^ha, they probably rented it. Before I saw it, I didn't know it was a remake of "Rear Window"

4/14/2007 12:00:34 PM

Also I thought Rear Window was pretty slow. Not one of my favorite Hitchcock and/or Jimmy Stewart Movies.

4/14/2007 12:13:14 PM

when i first saw the trailer, i was like "rear window!"

but i think this movie will actually stand on its own. 50+ years is definitely a point where "newer" generations don't have the patience for the pace of old movies. plus it's not identical.

i'm accepted the fact that nothing is "original" anymore.

4/14/2007 12:51:13 PM

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"where "newer" generations don't have the patience for the pace of old movies"

fuck those people

[Edited on April 14, 2007 at 12:53 PM. Reason : Rear Window is a great movie, then and now.]

4/14/2007 12:53:01 PM

i'm not saying it's not a great movie. i will always hold a special place for "the birds" and several other "classics."

but it's not easy to make the new teenage audience sit through an old b/w film. so they're cashing in on it.

4/14/2007 12:58:45 PM

but Rear Window was in Technicolor.

4/14/2007 1:14:58 PM

^

4/14/2007 9:39:25 PM

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"but i think this movie will actually stand on its own."

I really doubt it. I've only seen the trailer, but I'd put money down that it's total crap.

and ^^^^

4/14/2007 9:40:27 PM

It actually looks entertaining.

4/14/2007 10:52:34 PM

saw it tonight. absolutely loved it, as did my gf. it was really entertaining and shia was great as usual. it's the best of it's genre since scream...it's not as forced as the recent pg-13 "thrillers" that have come out. it won't win any awards, but it's a fun movie going experience.

4/15/2007 12:23:56 AM

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"I didn't know it was a remake butchering of "Rear Window""

4/15/2007 6:17:42 AM

it's doing pretty well on imdb http://imdb.com/title/tt0486822/

i had fun watching it...it was entertaining.

4/15/2007 2:52:57 PM

oh there is an homage to hitchcock in the movie...just remembered.

it's something about wondering if bancroft used a body double in the graduate, and then shia says "you know she would've showed some boobs if it was a hitchcock movie" or something like that.

4/15/2007 3:26:16 PM

I never saw the original, but this is a good flick. No lulls or annoying get in touch w/ the main character's feelings kind of moments. pure thriller.

4/15/2007 5:38:41 PM

that girl is hot

4/16/2007 10:43:15 PM

jesus christ, could they have shoved any more products in my face in the first 20 minutes! I actually got a kick every time they mentioned Itunes and XBox.

5/2/2007 2:01:28 AM

the product placement was amusing.

first hour was slow, but it was supposed to be. glad they didn't draw out the end.

overall good flick. nothing amazing, no huge twists. but fun to watch.

5/9/2007 6:21:02 AM

ttt

9/9/2008 1:41:28 PM

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"shia was great as usual"

i really do not enjoy his acting particularly, or maybe its the characters he plays, who knows? I just dont get the hype over him.

9/9/2008 1:55:42 PM

was the bump for the lawsuit? disturbia vs. rear window i think it is.

9/9/2008 2:03:45 PM

apparently this core team (spielberg as producer, caruso as director, shia lebeouf as lead actor) are doing eagle eye, and plan on doing y: the last man

9/9/2008 2:30:50 PM

nononononono

9/9/2008 2:33:55 PM

thanks for the bump

yes, it is about the lawsuit:

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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film "Rear Window" in making last year's "Disturbia," a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said. Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal, are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for making "Disturbia" without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders, the suit said. Spielberg, a Dreamworks founder, is named as a defendant. The film grossed about $80 million at the U.S. box office. According to the lawsuit, filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, the basis for Hitchcock's 1954 film was "Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint," a short story by Cornell Woolrich. Hitchcock and actor James Stewart obtained the motion picture rights to the story in 1953. The lawsuit argues that Dreamworks should have done the same. "What the defendants have been unwilling to do openly, legitimately and legally, (they) have done surreptitiously, by their back-door use of the 'Rear Window' story without paying compensation," the lawsuit said. A spokesman for Spielberg declined to comment. Representatives of Viacom and NBC Universal were not immediately available for comment. According to the lawsuit, "Disturbia" and the "Rear Window" story are "essentially the same." Both are murder mysteries beginning with a man who, while peering from his window, witnesses strange behavior in the home of his neighbor. The protagonist in all three of the works behaves in essentially the same way, interacts with similar characters and the plot unfolds in basically the same way, the lawsuit said. "In the Disturbia film the defendants purposefully employed immaterial variations or transparent rephrasing to produce essentially the same story as the Rear Window story," the lawsuit said. In reviewing "Disturbia," the New York Times called it "a kind of adolescent 'Rear Window.'" The Toronto Star newspaper called it "a rip off with wit.""

-http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0844655020080908

i think it's hilarious

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM. Reason : add story Ø]

9/9/2008 3:49:14 PM

i enjoyed the flick n the girl is hot

9/9/2008 3:49:57 PM

they should have picked a less hot girl

the attraction of her to him was not believable

9/9/2008 4:37:18 PM

headline from NY Mag:

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"Owners of ‘Rear Window’ Source Material Finally Bring Themselves to Watch ‘Disturbia,’ Sue"

quote from article:

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"No matter what the eventual outcome, though, lawyers for all parties agree that the damage has already been done and that Shia LaBeouf is now famous and hilariously perceived as bankable."

^and i agree, that girl made my penis do strange new things

9/9/2008 7:11:01 PM

and he is going to play the lead in the Y: The Last Man move

9/10/2008 11:36:27 AM

spielberg loves the kid. he really aint so bad.

9/10/2008 12:13:20 PM

Shia is really not that bad of an actor. You guys are hatin.

9/10/2008 12:54:56 PM

Saw it this weekend. It was ok, but had room for improvement. I like Shia, ever since Even Stevens and thought he was awesome in transformers.

9/12/2008 12:01:49 PM

I thought this was going to be about Rihanna's song...

9/12/2008 1:56:18 PM

I dont like his acting at all. I think many people look past his bad acting b/c they are focusing on the extremely hot girls that have been beside him the past two movies

9/12/2008 2:51:33 PM

^Yeah....that makes a lot of sense.

9/12/2008 3:04:56 PM

so why did they wait so long to file a suit?

9/12/2008 4:08:22 PM

^they just got around to watching the movie

9/12/2008 4:24:01 PM

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"apparently this core team (spielberg as producer, caruso as director, shia lebeouf as lead actor) are doing eagle eye, and plan on doing y: the last man"

2 out of 3 ain't bad....

caruso has some interesting talent, spielberg is a legend, but shia is not fit to hold Y's jock... i'd rather they give it to joseph gordon leavitt, who at least has shown an increase in his abilities over the last 5 years

alas poor yorrick...

9/13/2008 12:10:01 PM

Horrible film knowledge itt

9/13/2008 12:15:05 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^

9/13/2008 3:11:21 PM

lol

9/16/2008 6:38:02 AM

set 'em up

9/17/2008 1:40:40 PM