DISQUS

oakling · 1 year ago

I saw the original Nancy Drew movies on I think the AMC last year! I think they're set (and made) in the early 30s? They are SO AWESOME. They were so feminist and so old-timey at the same time. She wore little white gloves and kicked ass!

nancydrew · 1 year ago

The makers of the new Nancy Drew movie unfortunately took the "Brady Bunch Movie" approach to the character with this fish-out-of-the-water in modern times approach. By doing so, perhaps in thinking that this was the only way to draw in young people, they missed out on appealing to a wider audience--Nancy Drew fans of any generation.

They didn't give young viewers enough credit--successful movies like "Chronicles of Narnia," for instance, show that youngsters will flock to an entertaining well-crafted movie, regardless of the time period or locale the characters are in. In fact, I read somewhere that the original idea was to put Narnia's Pevensie children in modern-day L.A. and have them crave cheeseburgers instead of Turkish Delight. Thank goodness, sanity prevailed, and now we have a movie that families can watch over and over and can stand the test of time.

Unfortunately, "Nancy Drew" could have been that kind of movie, sharing space on the shelf with other timeless well-loved family movies. I don't see her as old-fashioned either--the strengths of her character and the dilemmas she thinks her way out of are universal and kids of all time and places can understand, if not relate to them. No sense portraying her as weird and out-of-fashion.

I agree with the above poster that the 1930s Nancy Drew movies with Bonita Granville are more enjoyable than this new movie. They're not exactly faithful of the books, but are a much better adaptation, in my opinion.

Frank Hardy · 1 year ago

Gee whiz, there sure are a lot of run ons !