Rosemary's Baby [DVD + Digital]

Love both versions!!

ROSEMARY'S BABY - the original 1968 film version directed by Roman Polanski - was smart, stylish, sardonic, sensational and superb - all the things, indeed, that this needless remake is not. This allegedly "modern" retelling is, in fact, what it actually is: and that is a TV movie fatiguingly drawn out to accommodate its every-few-minutes commercial breaks - so, therefore, it is laden with all the myriad and predictable cliff-hanging moments indicative of those coming commercial breaks. Of course, there are no actual commercials during the film on this DVD - except for the irritating previews one must either watch or skip through to get to the main event - but the rapid succession of fade-to-blacks are the "fingerprints" of this production's primary commercial function. In short, it is dragged out and padded and instead of keeping viewers on the edge of their seat, it is equally likely to cause one to snuggle back in their seat - and possibly even doze off.It isn't that this take on Ira Levin's classic is awfully bad - it just isn't terribly good. In listening to the director and star/producer Zoe "Rosemary" Saldana talk of their undertaking and the need to offer this day and age a newer perspective on Rosemary's character just made me laugh - for there is nothing in this vision and version of Rosemary that isn't in the character as first exquisitely embodied by Mia Farrow - and, in all honestly, there is a far amount less. Also postulated - especially by director Agnieszka Holland - is that in her version she tried to offer up not so much a horror tale, but a psychological one wherein viewers never quite know what is real or what is merely imagined by Rosemary in her eventually pregnant and possibly paranoidal state. But this is hogwash! Yes, indeed, such a perspective can be most definitely applied to the Polanski version - until the last, chilling moments. However, we see the Devil in the first few minutes in Holland's film. We also are privy to a series of gratuitously violent rub-outs of various characters who get too close to the truth of the very-real witchery involved. And this body-count of deaths-by-Devil are so imitative in style and feel to the killings in THE OMEN, that this miniseries seems like a weird hybrid of both ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE OMEN.One saving grace: Jason Isaacs (playing the Satan sycophant) is always a pleasurable pain to watch, ever since his evil incarnate turn in THE PATRIOT. French actress Carole Bouquet as his sincerely hypocritical wife is also a delight. But Patrick Adams doesn't fit in John Cassavetes shoes and hardly seems to be wearing any all his own, and Zoe Saldana is, well, no Mia Farrow. And not that she should be - except, in not bringing anything new and unique to the role herself, well, comparisons are inevitable. Curiously, on the back of the DVD we are told in fairly large letters without quotation marks or critical attribution that ZOE SALDANA HYPNOTIZES. But she really doesn't. And how curious that nowhere on the DVD casing are any of the others actors (with the exception of Patrick Adams) even mentioned, nor is the director or any of the production team. Well, with four Saldanas as producers - including the film's star - I suspect these omissions may very well have been by commission.One good thing: given the coming Halloween season my appetite has been whetted to watch ROSEMARY'S BABY again - the Polanski version, that is.

Zoe Saladona was a great choice for a leading actress.

I love this movie!!!

I really liked rosemary with zoe saldana. I like the fact that the movie wasn't exactly like the original. It was nice that the movie was filmed in such a beautiful place. So you have to watch and see. I gave it five stars because it was a little different, the acting was superb, where they filmed. And while I watched it, it made me feel you as though I wanted to take a trip there. I don't give away where it was filmed. Buy it and your see lol

I loved it when it aired on TV a few years back and had been trying to track it down since. So glad to have my own copy of it now!!

I thought this was the old version of Rosemary’s Baby. This one takes place in Paris and I couldn’t follow a lot of it. And I hate movies you have to read.

Zoe carries this remake quite well, the rest of the cast are all properly off/creepy. One off for.just average intensity/atmosphere. Enjoy!

i wanted this version for along time with the movie poster. it is expensive but rare with the slip case. ruth gordon is a genius of an actress very powerful performances. very disturbing watch out for a young charles grodin.

It got here fast and its the NEW version! I LOVE IT! THank you so much and will be ordering again!

All is OK

I love this mini series!

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