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PyrosNine
02-16-2009, 11:40 AM
THERE IS NO ME! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_Witch_Mountain)

When I was a small child, there was one movie series that stood out among the rest. Me and My sister hated all things the other like, movies included, except for one glorious thing:

Witch Mountain. There were two good movies, and then one not so good movie knockoff, and there were good books.

Two twins (who sometimes didn't look alike at ALL despite actually needing to) who have special powers that are strongest when they are together, the government who wants to capture them, crazy old folks who want to control them, and a nice landing and take off point on the top of a Mountain named Witch.

GOLD! Original! I had flights of fancy as a younger Pyros of being stuck in an Orphanage and using my powers to escape with some blond chick about my age!

And now there's another. And it stars THE ROCK.

My childhood is a minefield and I'm walking it in a ZIGZAG!
Tev
02-16-2009, 12:06 PM
What's funny is that until I heard it mentioned in the preview that I watched during the Super Bowl, I had absolutely no idea I was watching a preview for Witch Mountain. I was all "The Rock!" and "Cool kids with powers!" and then they were like "We need to get to Witch Mountian!" and I was all "WITCH MOUNTAIN!" and then my brain shut down for a bit.
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 12:21 PM
All I know is that the one I saw was completely awful.
Intern Nin
02-16-2009, 12:57 PM
All I know is that the one I saw was completely awful.

You talking about that one 90's made for TV movie remake?
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 01:37 PM
I'm assuming so.

I mean it was awful, and Pyros seems to indicate they were all good except for one, so, yeah.
PyrosNine
02-16-2009, 03:50 PM
That's the one, Beyond Witch Mountain. I was seriously wondering if someone was being cruel to me again and showing me something horribly similar to something else I adored. Like that unofficial Wizard of Oz sequel with Dorothy nearly escaping shock therapy. Throughout the entirety of it, as it was a reimagining of the book, despite the original being incredibly faithful to the books.

Purple energy when they put their hands together? PREPOSTEROUS!
POS Industries
02-16-2009, 04:48 PM
Well, I'm guessing that, much like the rest of his movies, The Dwayne will probably at least be far from the worst part of this.
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 05:04 PM
That's the one, Beyond Witch Mountain. I was seriously wondering if someone was being cruel to me again and showing me something horribly similar to something else I adored. Like that unofficial Wizard of Oz sequel with Dorothy nearly escaping shock therapy. Throughout the entirety of it, as it was a reimagining of the book, despite the original being incredibly faithful to the books.

Purple energy when they put their hands together? PREPOSTEROUS!

I thought it was just Return To, the 99 remake or whatever?
PyrosNine
02-16-2009, 05:57 PM
Oh wait, you're right, it was called "Escape to Witch Mountain" in 1995. Beyond was a tv pilot I never watched.

All I recall is the color purple and a planet of Twins.
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 06:00 PM
Yeah, and apparently, we're all really twins, and we just forgot all about it!

How does Witch Mountain tie in? Who knows!

I did like the cameo by our very own Nikose Tyris, though.
Fifthfiend
02-16-2009, 06:47 PM
Well, I'm guessing that, much like the rest of his movies, The Dwayne will probably at least be far from the worst part of this.

It's so weird how in anything I've seen him do he always manages to be almost, but just not quite, actually any good.
Aerozord
02-16-2009, 07:15 PM
I am starting to wonder if there is some kind of repressed memory. I never recalled the movie, books, anything, but soon as they said "witch Mountain" my mind groaned in pain
stefan
02-16-2009, 07:38 PM
That's the one, Beyond Witch Mountain. I was seriously wondering if someone was being cruel to me again and showing me something horribly similar to something else I adored. Like that unofficial Wizard of Oz sequel with Dorothy nearly escaping shock therapy. Throughout the entirety of it, as it was a reimagining of the book, despite the original being incredibly faithful to the books.

Purple energy when they put their hands together? PREPOSTEROUS!

Throughout the entirety of it, as it was a reimagining of the book, despite the original being incredibly faithful to the books.

despite the original being incredibly faithful to the books.

haha oh wow you must have never read the original oz books have you.
Intern Nin
02-16-2009, 08:39 PM
I did like the cameo by our very own Nikose Tyris, though.
You mean the guy at 0:33 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaLymQgrS4c&feature=related)?

I was seriously wondering if someone was being cruel to me again and showing me something horribly similar to something else I adored. Like that unofficial Wizard of Oz sequel with Dorothy nearly escaping shock therapy.
Great, now you've gone and re-awakened some 15 year-old repressed memories of watching a headless witch chase a girl around a hall lined with dissembodied heads! That stuff is going to haunt my dreams tonight. I hope you're happy.
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 08:49 PM
You mean the guy at 0:33 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaLymQgrS4c&feature=related)?[/I]
Who else would purchase and strut around in a purple suit, top hat, and cane?

Either you remembered the old thread I made or you got the joke, and either way I'm happy.

I also like how Mr. Purple Creepydude in that movie's ability was to summon Power Rangers special effects.
POS Industries
02-16-2009, 09:22 PM
It's so weird how in anything I've seen him do he always manages to be almost, but just not quite, actually any good.
Yeah, there's some definite potential there. The issue is that he's pretty much always still playing The Rock in anything he does, and he has enough charisma on his own to at least make for an enjoyable performance, but he still needs to undergo a fair amount of training in actually playing more than one character.
Arhra
02-16-2009, 10:12 PM
Who else would purchase and strut around in a purple suit, top hat, and cane?
Willy Wonka.

I'm not very optimistic about most remakes. This one is no exception.
Mirai Gen
02-16-2009, 10:12 PM
Touche, I think.

Than again it was my fault for not specifying "on NPF."
PyrosNine
02-16-2009, 11:22 PM
haha oh wow you must have never read the original oz books have you.

Oh, I kinda ordered the sentences of that paragraph wrong. I meant Witch Mountain, not Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz in the end is alot less freaky than the original books, ignoring the creepy movie.

Great, now you've gone and re-awakened some 15 year-old repressed memories of watching a headless witch chase a girl around a hall lined with dissembodied heads! That stuff is going to haunt my dreams tonight. I hope you're happy.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
Aerozord
02-16-2009, 11:46 PM
he still needs to undergo a fair amount of training in actually playing more than one character.

why? Hasn't stopped 90% of modern actors
Lord Setheris
02-17-2009, 12:40 AM
-shudders-

Thinking about the Witch Mountain movie has also brought up repressed memories for me...

but hearing about Return to Wizard of Oz... has brought out far worse ones....
Kaneda
02-18-2009, 08:05 PM
haha oh wow you must have never read the original oz books have you.

I always liked the idea of a movie being more faithful to the feel of Baum's books, only Return to Oz ended up sucking.

As for Witch Mountain, I have no emotional attachment to the franchise, but those kind of things always seem to be better served by the limited technology of the 70s keeping them from just becoming SPESHUL EFFECS PG ACSHUN MOVIE.