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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – Rear Window (1998 remake)




Movie – Rear Window
Score : 2/10 (yeah I watched it fully, good for the idea, but not in execution)
Year : 1998
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration:1h29
Writers : Cornell Woolrich (shortstory) ; Eric Overmyer  & Larry Gross (teleplay)  


 Hitchcock's Rear Window didn't need remaking... yet, someone did, and failed at it, oh so miserably.
The entire thing feels like a pity project, let's pay Christopher Reeve... with all due respect to the man, he didn't really manage to get the job done, maybe due to poor writing, poor directing, poor everything, even the music was sappy and stupid. 
 
Contrary to James Stewart's perdormance, there was no emotional attachement to the character. Here, Christpher plays an architect, but his obsession with spying and intrigue just doesn't flow as naturally as with a photographer...

I couldn't suspend my disbelief with all the functions his gizmo wheelchair connected to a computer could offer.... really, one mouth to control EVERYTHING using a straw ?!

Daryl Hannah vs Grace Kelly... Daryl really doesn't cut it as ''the one''...

The evil man really didn't scare ya'll, I was like ''really ?!'', ok, he did something awful, but I wasn't suspended like the one from Hitchcok's...

Jeff Bleckner's Rear Window just fails at everything, 1 star for the will to do well, but that's all... thumbs down.
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