This isn't the Nancy Drew I grew with!

[DisFanKenz]

It sure looks good to me!

 

[mickeysgal]

Nancy Drew does not hold interest as much as they used to. It is considered "dated" by most younger readers now.

I would not be suprised if this movie will increase readership of all the books.

I'm dating myself but I was reading these back in the early 70's.

I think you're right. I still have the entire hardcover set - some of them very early editions. I tried to get my DD to read them when she was younger, but she didn't take to them. The language and story lines were dated to her.

I still have the set of books. Not sure if they're worth anything, but I'm going to have to get rid of them. They're just collecting dust.

 

[irishbosoxfan]

I loved reading ND--I had a big collection of her books(Hardy Boys also!! Couldn't read ND and not read the HD especially after they hooked up to help each other!!)
My dad threw them out when I moved out

I go to second hand stores now to help build my collection back up--Just found "The clue in the diary" and read it as soon as I got home!

I heard they were coming out with an ND movie and got excited but have yet to see a trailer for it.

 

[cccm]

Just added Season 1 of the shows to the queue on Netflix. DD has read the first six books and loves them so much! She is now a mystery fan.

 

[kribit]

Oh no..I didn't see the remake. I'm going to google it right now, but nothing beats the classics.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Children's librarian here! My Nancy Drew books RARELY circulate at all and most libraries don't have them anymore.

Kids always tell me they are too old fashioned and boring. :confused2: I've had countless parents ask me where they are and they almost always come back unfinished and the parents ask for something else.

I think the movie might get some girls to read one of the old books, but it'll end there as the books are nothing like the movie previews.

BTW I never read Nancy Drew as a kid either, they were before my time and not popular at all (I'm 27). I was a big Babysitters Club fan though.

Maybe it's just my community though.

My dd usually gets hers from the library and the librarian once said it was nice to see someone reading them, so I guess they don't circulate much there, either.

Although there was one time we couldn't renew one because someone had it on hold, so there's at least one other ND fan using our library.

 

[kribit]

Emma Roberts the new Nancy Drew? Is that Julia's niece? It looks EXACTLY like her.

 

[Soubrette]

I really liked the trailer, and will definitely see the movie. Seemed smarter than the average teeny-boper flick.

I also read every single Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden book I could get my hands on.

They were horribly dated when I read them (I wondered who could really fight crime looking that neat and clean and following that many rules), but they were still fun.

 

[harleyquinn]

My dd usually gets hers from the library and the librarian once said it was nice to see someone reading them, so I guess they don't circulate much there, either.

Although there was one time we couldn't renew one because someone had it on hold, so there's at least one other ND fan using our library.

lol Yes there definitely are a few fans out there! I think part of the problem is the horribly old/outdated covers of the books. Although I bought a bunch of new ones last year and they aren't going out either. Oh well!

 

[harleyquinn]

Emma Roberts the new Nancy Drew? Is that Julia's niece? It looks EXACTLY like her.

Yep that's her!

 

[DisnyMama]

Wow, I'm really surprised that the libraries don't carry these books any more. My DS (16) is opening his eyes to some of the older stuff...movies and books that I watched and read in the late 70's and 80's. For instance, he loves the movie "The Breakfast Club". The library is a great place to introduce your kids to a little of their parents past.

 

[bicker]

I agree. When I saw the trailer, my first thought was - can't they come up with anything original anymore?

Brands like "Nancy Drew" automatically capture attention. It takes a lot to build up interest in something and any advantage is worth capitalizing on. So even if it is a completely different set of stories, better to have them featuring a known character (even if the character also has changed) rather than trying to get folks interested in a completely new character.

 

[PattnFmly]

Just a thought. Yes, the language is dated. But what about Tom Sawyer? That's dated too. But my son (age 7) loved it. What makes that a "classic" versus all the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Three Investigators/Trixie Belden's? They're all literature, fun and adventuresome, and open kids eyes to new worlds. I think we've spoiled our kids by all the gadgets and games. And yes, I write this as my two boys are playing Playstation because they've already had breakfast and it's not time to dress for school yet. Guess I need to do some changes in my house! And find all those books at my Mom's house so my son can start reading them! The weekend is coming ......

 

[Disney1fan2002]

My Ds is over the moon excitef that there is going to be a ND movie! He loves playing the Nancy Drew PC mystery games and he soaks up the Hardy Boys books.

I was not so excited about the Hardy Boys movie when I saw that Tom Cruise is going to play one of them!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963174/plotsummary

If they want to do a movie about the Hardy Boys all grown up, why can't they get Shawn cassidy and Parker Stevenson to play them all growed up?

 

[MrsPete]

Nancy Drew does not hold interest as much as they used to. It is considered "dated" by most younger readers now.

I would not be suprised if this movie will increase readership of all the books.

Nancy Drew was "dated" when I read her books as a child! That doesn't mean I didn't love her books, but I didn't see her as a realistic character -- she didn't resemble the people in my life at all!

 

[bobcat]

I tivoed the Nancy Drew movies from the 30's but have only watched one so far. It was cute. 12yo DD actually saw them on the guide and suprised me with them. Why can't he be that cute all the time?

Nancy changes with the times so it will be interesting to see how she is in the new movie. I won't rush to the theater to see it but I was glad that they were making one. I read all of the 70's versions over and over and eveytime I go to the bookstore and buy books for my kids I think about how much of my allowance money I spent on them. However I have quite a few of the original ND books and they are my favorites. I love the pictures of Nancy in suit, hat and gloves!

We have a local christian station that shows the Cassidy/Stevenson Hardy Boys and I will watch them every so often.

 

[Darcy03231]

I loved Nancy Drew when I was a kid and read all the books. I couldn't wait for new ones to come out (1970s). I tried to interest my daughter in them and she really didn't like them at all. They were too dated. Just kept asking why Nancy didn't have a computer and cell phone. She just couldn't relate to them at all.

 

[RangerPooh]

A few years back I read something that mentioned that they were going back through some of the books and updating them. This might be just the more recent books rathe than the originals, I don't know. But they were going to chnage some of the jargon/words used that were common in the day to more modern sayings, computers for typewriters, a mustang for her roadster.... I can see why one would want to bring her into the current era as a way to entice readers, as kids today can't always relate to the time period when the story takes place.

Slightly OT, but in the class where I student teach we have Boxcar Children books for the kids to read and they are a hit with the kids. Sure they may not be Junie B Jones or the Mystery Tree House series, but they are still entertaining the kids in my class. And more importanatly they are reading! I actually had a child who was upset that we didn't ahve the next in the series as he wanted to read them in order

 

[Becky2005]

Just skimmed the replies but decided my DD is weird.

She *loved* the old Nancy Drew books vs. the new ones. We have old ones (DH also have Hardy Boys/Tom Swift Jr. AND Tom Swift!) here. I bought her a newer one (not realizing it was different, just figured it was just an updated cover).

She read 1 didn't like it but read all the old ones we had.

She wants to see the movie. I thought it looked like a cute movie but then again I wasn't a big Nancy Drew reading person. I knew of the books but can't say I read the series (I don't really remember reading any of the books), so wouldn't know the complete inconsistencies.

 

[Feralpeg]

Being male, I never read Nancy Drew. I did, however, read the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift, Jr. When I started on these, in the 1950s, my father told me that he had read the Tom Swift books when he was young.

Tom Swift dealt with jet planes, washing machines, and other science fiction trappings of the 1930s. Tom Swift Jr. had rockets and an alien race that he was in contact with, science fiction for the late 50s, early sixties.

Twenty years ago, some paperback company floated a new Tom Swift series. I bought the first two volumes for my nephew. The first book dealt with an anti-gravity skateboard. The second book dealt with an evil Tom Swift from another dimension. Science fiction for the post-computer generation. I have no idea what new books would deal with. My guess would be gene splicing and stopping global warming at the very least.

The point is that these books were never considered great literature and were meant to appeal to the children of the period when they were published. The same is true with any adaptation. Deanna Durbin looked totally different from Pamela Sue Martin, who played the part in the 1970s Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Hour. The two Hardy Boys, played by Parker Stephenson and Shaun Cassidy, were totally different from Tommy Kirk and Tim Considine. Instead of short wave radio, for example, they had citizen bands. Today they would probably carry blackberries.

To criticize a movie made in 2007 because it is meant to appeal to the current generation of youngsters rather than one or two generations ago is "Make the movie for me, and to heck with making money." It's not going to happen.

By the way, this in no means is meant to praise the film. I have not seen it, and neither has anyone else. You can't tell a film's quality from the trailer, you can only tell what some marketeer thinks is important. I'm looking forward to taking DD7 to see it, at least until I read the reviews.

You took the words out of my mouth. By the way, I'd love it if they made an updated version of Tom Swift!