<![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Not Witch Mountain!!!! PLEASE oh PLEASE leave that one! Take all the others! Chew them up and spit them out! Have the Rock and Vin Diesel star in each and every one! Just leave that tiny little piece of my childhood alone....{cry!!}

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> If they ever plan to touch Watcher in the Woods, I will burn their little kingdom to the ground.

Bellatrixie

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I had a crush on Kim too. That was so long ago!
I recall reading 'Flight to the Lonesome Place' because I wanted to read Alexander Key. As I recall it wasvery sad... and it really struck a chord for me.
Wow, Paris's Auntie? No way! Oh, and I did a book report in school too.



photon209

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> The Rock confirmed on Jonathon ross on BBC on Friday that he is starring in witch Mountain.

kevinjwoods

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @Hart: aaarrrgggghhhhh! Too many 70's kids references! :) However, I'll see your Shazam/Isis Power Hour and raise you a Johnny Whittiker and an Ark II!

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @SeanOHara: in a world where no one has watched "Man from U.N.C.L.E. apparently.

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I didn't realize the original movie was based on a novel by Alexander Key. There was a short story (stories?) I read many years ago that was about aliens who crashed on Earth and, because of their powers, were sometimes tormented and killed when humans discovered their abilities. It may have involved children slowly discovering their non-human heritage too. I don't remember who wrote the story, but I do recall that it was similar to Escape from Witch Mountain, but not the same, either in title or plot. Did I just imagine this?

PeggyK

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Oh snap! Did I ever have an 8 year old chubby for Tia! It went so far as having dreams about the movie when I first saw it. I'm glad to see I'm in good company here!

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I think Mussorgsky's night on bald mountain was the theme music. Look up "night on disco mountain" to find a fun remix.

RocketScientist

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I just Netflix'd both original Witch Mountain movies not that long ago. The first one holds up pretty well -- sure, it's hokey and 70s, but in a good way. The 2nd one is appallingly bad but still entertaining.

I just wasted ten minutes of my life watching the remake clip, and it's baffling how people who make films for a living could so screw up such a simple job: remake Witch Mountain. I don't see that there was much that needed tweaked in order to update it, and what did the useless seven minute prelude add to the story? Exactly nothing. Also, lame voiceover much. I always like to add a voiceover to my films from a peripheral character who faints at the first sign of the plot.

The bully in the first movie was WAY tougher than this Evil Child -- tricking someone onto a slide into a pile of leaves -- the BASTARD!

And why is the boy so floppy-haired, boy-band pretty but the girl is kind of unusual-looking (ooo! alien!).

Disney: Next time just give me the money. I'll buy some nice things--heck, I'll even go visit your theme parks--and you can rerun the original version of the film. I think we'll both feel a lot better about where that money went.

JennaW, Internet Tough Girl

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> What sort of twisted world do you people live in where Napoleon Solo is evil?

SeanOHara

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @Frozen-Tex: I think you're onto something there.

dangrgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Why do I recall Bette Davis ordering "TOTAL CHAOS!" ? Is that in the film, or is it a mangled memory from something else?

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @dangrgirl: Or was "Roswell" Witch Mountain in high school? Hmmm...

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @Macloserboy: i SO hit it dude

spacedcowboy

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I remember loving this movie -- Tia did get the cooler powers. Now, though, it seems sort of like Roswell in elementary school.

dangrgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Thank you! I KNEW he was someone in something else, but I could never shake the feeling he was the Monkees' Davey Jones, even though I knew he wasn't. Peter Preston. Yes. Some part of my subconscious that's been working on that for twenty years or so just rested. This was one of those things that only comes up when I'm not able to get to IMDb, and I always forget it by the time I can.

Marcus

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> so what's the diff between remake and re-imagining again?

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I loved, LOVED these movies when I was a kid. What a blast from the past. I even did a book report in sixth grade on what I had presumed was the cheesy novelization from the movie. I didn't even know the movie was actually based on a real book. So, I don't remember the deal with "witch mountain." Is that a place on Earth through which they depart and arrive to/from other planets? Wonder why it's called that. Almost makes me want to hunt down and pay $350 for an old copy of the book ... almost.
That Ike Eisenmann - wasn't he in a ton of 70s disneykidtainment? Wasn't he in an after school special or two? Was it the alcohol one ... maybe teen pregnancy? An episode or two of Alice? Shazam/Isis Power Hour? Baretta?


Hart

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I was soooo in love with Kim Richards after that movie...

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> @Plague: "Apple Dumplin' Gang", anyone?

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I remember reading the book in the mid-70s, maybe about 4th grade. I guess I must have seen the movie at some point, but I don't specifically remember that.

CSX321

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> We need a remake of "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes".
Oh wait, they already did that.

How about "Bedknobs And Broomsticks" next?

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I had SUCH a crush on Kim Richards when this movie came out! Yeah, I'm old.

mattclary

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I can't believe I actually watched the whole 10 minute video....

se7a7n7

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Because an old guy driving around in a Winnebago alone "helping" children isn't creepy enough?

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Damnit Disney, you already crapped all over one of my favorite childhood movies (right after Aliens....what can I say, I was a weird kid) with that crap in '95, and now you want to do it AGAIN!?

Gah! Truly evil.

draconismoi

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Ha! You've failed, Hollywood. Your fiendish attempts at turning my childhood memories into WWF, American Idol-zombie corporate trash are all for naught!
You see, for some strange reason, the original version of this movie inspired me to have Witch Mountain themed dreams the likes of which would drive even David Lynch screaming into the night! Yes indeedy, super-wacky, acid-party, type dreams...
Better luck next time, capitalist goons.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> Konrad, CHOMPS, the Electric Grandmother ....the kids section of any video rental c1988 was sf valhalla

pinafore

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> How is remaking crappy Disney movies from the 70s better than making new crappy Disney movies? I guess it's easier than coming up with new ideas.

B

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> I hear they just hired Ciaran Hinds (Caesar from HBO's Rome) to be the baddie. No idea if his character will take on the traditional Bolt name, but I'm now rooting against the kids.

Rus

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> For many years, I actually did think that Escape to Witch Mountain was about witches.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again]]> What next, Flubber?

Oh wait...

ManchuCandidate

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