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"Audiences engage with an issue so much more than they do through an on-the-nose approach."

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This version plays the same card, but adds some pretty on-the-nose political leanings as well, as James Marsden's David is a stereotypical 'latte-liberal' lives in Hollywood, atheist, Ivy-League educated, etc while the people he encounters in this new environment are almost clownishly 'Southern' in their appearance and behavior.

Scott Mendelson: Review: Straw Dogs (2011) Scott Mendelson 2011

The filmmaking choices are a little more on-the-nose, and despite having lifted several shots directly from the original (see the images above, and these side-by-side comparisons from Fearnet) everything is just a tiny bit glossier, as if sprinkled with a pinch of Hollywood fairy dust.

Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010

This version plays the same card, but adds some pretty on-the-nose political leanings as well, as James Marsden's David is a stereotypical 'latte-liberal' lives in Hollywood, atheist, Ivy-League educated, etc while the people he encounters in this new environment are almost clownishly 'Southern' in their appearance and behavior.

Scott Mendelson: Review: Straw Dogs (2011) Scott Mendelson 2011

It's slow, boring, and still feels like a sloppy and on-the-nose first-draft screenplay that never got rewritten after it sold based on the Amanda trap scene.

Scott Mendelson: Goodbye John: A Farewell to Saw, as Jigsaw Lays His Last Trap Scott Mendelson 2010

The filmmaking choices are a little more on-the-nose, and despite having lifted several shots directly from the original (see the images above, and these side-by-side comparisons from Fearnet) everything is just a tiny bit glossier, as if sprinkled with a pinch of Hollywood fairy dust.

Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010

The thing also needed to intuitively evoke Star Trek memories without being too on-the-nose.

Books by Wil Wheaton 2009

Seyfried, like pretty much the entire cast, struggles to create a three-dimensional character amidst the somewhat on-the-nose dialogue, and she especially is burdened with yet another case of needlessly expository voice over.

Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Red Riding Hood Scott Mendelson 2011

The filmmaking choices are a little more on-the-nose, and despite having lifted several shots directly from the original (see the images above, and these side-by-side comparisons from Fearnet) everything is just a tiny bit glossier, as if sprinkled with a pinch of Hollywood fairy dust.

Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010

The thing also needed to intuitively evoke Star Trek memories without being too on-the-nose.

Memories of the Future Volume One 2009