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Updated with good QT links!!! THE HITCHER remake trailer hitches a ride on MSN's Crappy Player!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here, piggy-backing on Harry's story. I have good, quality Quicktime links for the trailer as well as some Windows Media versions... I'll post them below! Enjoy!
Hey folks, Harry here... You know me, I'm not a hater of remakes. I believe no serious fan of film can be. I mean hell, that would mean I'd have to hate THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE MALTESE FALCON, TARZAN THE APE MAN (Johnny Weismuller version), FRANKENSTEIN (1931) or in modern times, John Carpenter's THE THING, MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and... oh yeah, CASINO ROYALE. That said, most remakes suck your retinaes out. Now, I haven't been highly critical of Platinum Dunes' onslaught of remaking classic 70's and 80's Horror films. I have enjoyed the Chainsaw remakes, I have enjoyed the AMITYVILLE HORROR remake... BOY - what a difference Quicktime makes. When I initially looked at this on MSN, it just didn't visually look that good, but here it looks much better. As for the film? We'll see. They seem to definitely be following very closely to the original film - except for the whole two people in the car thing instead of just the awesome presence of C Thomas Howell - so that will change the dynamic of the story. Will that be good or bad? We'll have to wait to see, but in the trailer they're definitely blowing shit up real good and given the laxed attitudes about gross stuff that the MPAA currently has, I'm betting the truck ripping scene will be real good - and I hope we'll finally get to see that goodness, instead of cutting away like in the original. Check it out, here's the links:
By The Twitching of My Thumbs, THE HITCHER Remake, This Way Comes!
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The Hitcher was actually scary.
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why not is right. looked half-way entertaining.
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..Mary is a hot MILF..
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that trailer rocked, Bean sounds like
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That trailer nearly gave me a spaz attack. Sorry, I require more than two seconds per shot.
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was actually quite good. I'm not interested in these kinds of films, but I must say, that was pretty cool. Sean Bean looks like gold here.
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Too bad the movie wont be.
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I was expecting the very worst, but the second Sean Bean came onscreen, this began to look like it might work.
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...because they usually remake films that were great to begin with. The best remakes are of mediocre films like THE FLY (1953). Of course I'm sure someone out there right now is trying to remake the Cronenberg version, which would be idiocy. That said, I've never seen the original Hitcher, and although I'm sure it's not a classic, from what I've heard it's pretty effective.
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...because they usually remake films that were great to begin with. The best remakes are of mediocre films like THE FLY (1953). Of course I'm sure someone out there right now is trying to remake the Cronenberg version, which would be idiocy. That said, I've never seen the original Hitcher, and although I'm sure it's not a classic, from what I've heard it's pretty effective.
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By the pricking of my thumbs/something wicked this way comes
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Sean Bean is a talented actor. Just watch any of the BBC Sharpe series that he did. Why he gets stuck doing junk like this is beyond me. But, then again, we all have to eat and pay the rent.
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Putting two people in the car is a BAD BAD BAD shitty-ass idea that completely ruins what is most interesting about the dynamic of the enitre film. The is a paranoid aspect to the original Hitcher, as if he only exists as Howell's personal demon. You can say goodbye to that. This seems to be the calling card of all of these new horror remakes. "Let's throw some hot T&A in there pronto? We can't have this flick be a sausage fest, can we?"
Just you wait until UNIVERSAL throws two or three "hot chicks" into their remake of THE THING. "Ya' know. To spice it up a little." Remember that I warned you. You didn't listen. YOU DIDN'T LISTEN!! **sniffle** -
This actually looks pretty cool. But they'd better not pussy out with the semis scene. I want to see intestines spilling out all over the place. And Sean Bean is an inspired choice as the replacement for Rutger Hauer. I, for one, can't wait. And I'll watch the original tonight.
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I am not fond of remakes at all, but it seems to me the ones I find tolerable are the ones where the original was a b level film to begin with. The original Hitcher is totally entertaining to me, but more on a popcorn-movie level than anything else...still the original came out in 86...maybe they could have waited another 10 yrs or so before remaking this one..just a thought for all you un-original bastards out there who make your living by raping other peoples films... BTW Batutta here's the IMDB link to the remake of The Fly being planned for 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379788/
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It's just going to be another PG-13 shitfest. Although Sofia Bush's raspy voice makes me want to call a phone sex operator.....
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the male/female role switcherooney doesn't really do it for me either.
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Sean Bean, super hot chick...sure. And yeah, I've been fairly happy with the horror-remakes I've seen so far DOTD, TTCM, TAH, HOW...all fine films imo.
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you know a film is in deep shit if not even the fucking trailer can manage to create a feeling of suspense.
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...only with a sexy female girlfriend added to pull in the "teen couple" crowd. What a joke!
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I saw Sean Bean armed with those guns standing there looking like a total badass. That sold me. The film will probably be garbage, but Bean looked badass.
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Didn't need a remake. Fuck this movie.
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I don't wanna sound sexist...but it looks like they let the girl be the hero. Why? Because it's not P.C. to kill the girl in a movie anymore?
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Don't worry, the original will still exist. You can go back and watch it any time you like, what with modern DVD technology and all. Rewind, fast forward, etc. Also, are people really complaining that there is a beautiful girl in this film? Really? Aside from there also being a beautiful girl in the original (Jennifer Jason Leigh - pretty AND talented), this brunette is very nice to look at, I think. Maybe she's a good actress, too, I don't know.
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Give me the 80's one anyday with the beautiful scope photography, Hauer's existential villain and Mark Isham's moody and melancholy score. Next up on the shit remake front: Near Dark.
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What a great movie, and always the one I think of when someone says Sean Bean. And then I think of Silent Hill and throw up in my mouth a little.
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I love the Hitcher - one of my all time favourite movies - I bemoan the fact that Rutger Hauer disappeared into a world of shite DTV crap until recently. I honestly cannot think of an Arnie film that would not have been improved tenfold by giving Hauer the role. I also like Sean Bean an awful lot and bemoan the fact that the British film industry has died on it's arse mostly because if it was in the same state it was in the 60's Bean would be up there with Richard Burton, Harris and Stanley Baker. I'm not at all convinced about this - the whole idea of two people being in the car is a shitty one for 'The Hitcher'. It messes up the whole dynamic as other posters have quite rightly said and makes it look like a remake of Roadkill or something.
I'm not against remakes but find it interesting that most of the ones that Harry mentioned are actually versions of novels and I have never been quite sure if those are remakes myself.
Oh and no! Please don't ever have a shitty CGI or indeed a great physical effect shot of the character being ripped by the trucks. The sounds, shock and actiong in the original would far surpass anything that Hollywood effects can do. -
Actually every film Harry mentions is a remake of a previous film, not a novel. The one that threw me was Wizard of Oz, did not know about the 1925 version till I looked it up.
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Holy Shit, after watching that trailer and the clips glimpsed of Sean Bean in the trench coat with a machine gun, it dawned on me that if they ever decided to make another film, he must play a terminator. Cold dead eyes, determined look, might need to change the Sheffield accent, then again maybe not.
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Most of the ones that Harry mentioned though come from a novel to begin with though. In fact the only two that are remakes just of movies are 'The Thing' and 'The Magnificent Seven'. Oh, and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre if you include that as one that he liked rather than loved.
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Was remade from a sci-fi short story called 'Who Goes There'. So unless the Seven Samurai was based on a Japanese novel then that's the only true remake of a previous movie rather than an adaptation of a source material. It doesn't necessarily detract from the creative bankruptcy in Hollywood but to me they've always seemed a little more legitimate.
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Frickin A! Sean Bean rules, it'll be nice to see him kicking some arse, don't think he has since 006...
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ouch! this looks wrong in just about every way that remakes can be wrong
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Please kill Michael Bay. He's responsible for this, Texas Chainshit and its prequel, and, no doubt, hundreds of other upcoming atrocities. Not to mention Pearl Harbor.
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I think is a worthy premise. Especially if they keep the "HEEELP MEEEE" ending of the original. They could even give the two incarnations equal screen presence and plot importance.
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...to shoot at Morrisons.
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why would you hate them?
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of the original will be gone in favor of something more mainstream. Also nfor those screaming for blood and gore the original wasn't about blood gore. Sadly that's not what horror movies are about these days, atmosphere and quality filmaking, becuase idiots keep going to see sadist films.
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So that'll be The Hitcher then, with some different people in the roles. Thats worth the money they spent on it surely as opposed to say, I dunno, making something original?
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first off, as others have noted, the dynamic of "is Rutger Hauer real or is Howell imagining him?" angle is now dead and gone since there are two people in the car(unless they want to go totally bugfuck, pull an Identity and make all three characters the same person drooling on themselves in a fucking padded cell somewhere). also, did anyone else notice that Sophia Bush seems to be watching the bearded male tied up to the two trucks? compound this with the fact that the family with the station-wagon has survivors, and that the twosome decides to drive said wagon, wow we have some wierd divergences. however, Bean does seem to kick all sorts of ass in this trailer.
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Nov 23, 2006 10:22:08 PM CST
We don't see the "ruck ripping" scene in the original..
by osmosis jones
...so why is everyone complaining the the remake will "puss out" if it ALSO doesn't show it?
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I fucking hate they remade this. And I fucking hate they're remaking NEAR FUCKING DARK. Those right there are two PERFECT films. The mood, the acting, everything. DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY!!!!!
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Nov 23, 2006 11:43:25 PM CST
Sean Bean is no Rutger Hauer. Buy the Original DVD
by neo con snake plissken
From the UK. 2 Disc special edition. Still holds up today, even with C. Thomas Howell in it. Just saw it two days ago again, great flick. This is going to suck. Even Highwaymen is going to be better than this.
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Ohhh... quicktime is SOOO GOOOOD. Gimme a break. Dude, it's just H.264. Apple didn't invent H.264, they just wrapped it in a proprietary file format and duped newbs like you into thinking it's something innovative. I suppose you thihnk Apple invented MP3s and the portable music player too.
WM (VC1) can look just as good (watch any HD DVD lately?). Don't blame the format, blame bad compressionists who don't know how to use their tools.
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One of my buddies is editing the film and sadly, there will be none of the ol' finger in the french fries. The truck ripping is in and it's gruesome. Cheers.
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I saw the original a few months back on AMC and I was surprised at how effective the acting between Howell and Hauer is. Then after learning that the movie is based on the Doors song Riders on the Storm, it just took the movie to a whole other level. Even with the B-movieness, it was a great thriller. By the end, you really want to see Hauer's character bite the dust. Hard.
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just saw the trailer and I have to ask, why are they even remaking this? It's only been about 20 years, damn. Have they seriously no imagination as to come up with something completely original? I can think up at least a hundred sitting here. Now that I think about it, this is how Bay makes his money, kind of like how Uwe Boll gets his tax writeoffs, Bay makes shit remakes for 5 million and makes a 20 million profit because moviegoers are too stupid or lazy to check out their local video store.
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Completely pointless remake IMO - and as has been said before, WTF IS THE GIRL DOING IN THE CAR FROM THE START? It doesn't make sense. A remake of the suckfest Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting more like!!
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Oh my god! one of the worst films of 05'. It was so dull, so lacking in any suspense, and what, only 70 minutes long? They were desperate to add anything to this film.
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He played Kim's doctor.
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the ORIGINAL was. This looks lame! The reason why the Fly and The Thing remakes worked is because they took movies that were fairly B-grade and made them into terrifying movies on both a psychological level and a visceral level. This, along with the amityville and TCM remakes, look to be just taking the imagery and making a fancy looking duplicate, but brining none of the psychological aspects into it. Besides, Hitcher already had a terrifying psychological storyline, so what is there to improve on?
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as a character on The Mighty Boosh. That Hitcher was awesome, this one... not so much.
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Looks predictable and unnecessary from that trailer. Looks like a waste of $10 and 2 hours.
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I thought the trailer looked mad sick yo. The MSN version was just dark- so what? It made it look creepier and more intense. Sean Bean is going to be an amazing Hitcher. I think a remake is a good thing and this looks like a great way to approach it- similar with some crazy twists at the end. Can't wait.
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I think the remake is going to kick some major ass. The trailer looks sweet. I'm excited and think it's going to rock.
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