Noooooo

[cimorene]

They're making a Nancy Drew movie and it looks kind of awful. It's contemporary, and she's moved to LA, and she's still dressed in 50s clothes.

There's also a PDA and a bomb in the semi-horrifying trailer, plus scenes of The Bitchy Girls in High School (she's in high school). I'm detecting a certain amount of copying from Veronica Mars, except I don't know that you could call it "cashing in on the phenomenon" when the Nancy Drew franchise has been way more successful than Veronica Mars has been of late...

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[revulo.livejournal.com]

I normally don't like Nancy Drew at all, but I was thinking it'd be kind of cute until the...bomb thing happened.
...bomb.
And WTF was with that jumping out of the way shot? Just...wow. Holy crap. :p

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Likewise, I really WANTED it to be okay - and my theory was like, well, Nancy Drew is already cheesy and kind of stupid and you know, it can't really be that much worse, can it? Except whoa, it totally can.

I don't know if you know/remember (or even like Nancy Drew...), but there was even a series of "new" Nancy Drew YA novels in the 80s that were, you know, moved up and set in the 80s. They were a bit longer and "grittier" than the classic originals, and the period had changed a lot, but they'd actually kept the story almost completely the same: Nancy wasn't a bizarre slapstick spazz who little children make fun of; she wasn't a goody two-shoes obsessed with weirdly old-fashioned clothes; she didn't defuse bombs. That I remember. Although I um, do have one with UFOs.

Now I feel like re-reading a Nancy Drew book...

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer for that too...looks very lame.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

*weep*

I mean, if it was cheesy Ann Taintor-ish 50s like the original Nancy Drew it could actually have been seriously cool. Just think of the costumes and sets alone. :(

[kessie.livejournal.com]

What. the. fuck?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The only sane reaction. :|