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What's this? A TAKING OF PELHAM 1, 2, 3 remake?!?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here writing from Fantastic Fest. I'm trying to catch up on my fest reviews as well as finish my HALO 3 write-up, but I saw this come into the inbox and couldn't resist taking a break to post it (thanks to Terry1978 for the heads up).
Tony Scott and Denzel Washington love each other and they love each other so much they want to remake the '70s classic THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1, 2, 3.
This is one of my favorite films, so of course I don't like this idea, but I can say I really dug MAN ON FIRE.
If you haven't seen it, the film is about a team of criminals that hijack a NYC subway train and hold its passengers hostage. Robert Shaw played the head bad guy.
Denzel Washington is rumored to be taking the Walter Matthau role. I liked that Matthau was a kind of goofy guy, a smart-ass to be sure, but not a tough guy. The Entertainment Weekly article doesn't have much other information, but I'm wondering who is in the running for the Robert Shaw role. Is there anybody alive that can be as badass... as cool, calm and intelligent as he was? The only person who jumps immediately to mind is Russell Crowe... if he wants to work with Denzel one more time.
I don't like the idea of remaking this movie, but if they're going to do it they need to populate the film with some really great actors. Let me recommend Paul Giamatti for the Martin Balsam role...
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I was thinking just over a week ago that someone should/will remake this very film sometime soon. Spoooooky.
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When is "The Towering Inferno" coming? With plenty of shake cam and closeups!
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"The guy who's talking's got a heavy English accent. He could be a fruitcake..." Bet the haul is more than $1M this time.
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Mr. Blue was not throwing telephones at any women in "Pelham", was he? Alan Rickman could perhaps take over that role...
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Because he steals from everybody.
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In 1998. With Edward James Olmos, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Schiff, Lorraine Bracco, and Donnie Wahlberg: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140594/
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Denzel would be decent in the Shaw role.
The whole structure of the film is based around a clever but otherwise regular guy who works in the city bureaucracy outsmarting the really sophisticated criminals.
I can't buy Washington as a regular guy who works for the MTA, but I can totally see him as a sophisticated criminal. -
SERIOUSLY JUST FUCK OFF!! MAKE SOMETHING ORIGINAL YOU CUNTS!!!
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If reports of this remake had come out just a few short years ago there would have been scores of talkbacks about how this is a terrible idea, and how Hollywood should be making original ideas instead. Notice today though that nobody yet has really got angered by this. We've sadly reached the point now where news like this is met with blase acceptance. We tolerate the endless stream of remakes as if it's the norm.
Well it shouldn't be. Come on people, remember the time when getting something original was the norm. You should be getting angered by this and writing blistering talkbacks. Sure, they won't make any difference at all and the film will still get made anyway. But it'll make you feel better. -
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C Legion and Lornsorrow have made my post irrelevant. I thank you both.
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They come to their fucking senses the pair of them and think 'Hey what the hell are we doing!? why are we Re-Making a classic when we should know better, have some fucking respect and simply sit on our arses and come up with an original idea!' Now that WOULD BE COOL FUCKING NEWS!
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There is NO REASON for this remake. I am not an automatic opponent of remakes, but why do this one? Remake "Clash of the Titans", a fantastic spectacle about Greek gods and heroes? Yes, Harryhausen did a great job, but there is honestly a lot that could be improved in that film. Remake "Pelham", an FX-less 70s caper film completely rooted in reality? No, the actors were wonderful and modern editing/FX won't make any difference. This remake is pointless because I do not believe the filmmakers can do better than the original.
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I agree. Clash Of The Titans would make sense to remake, but not Pehlam or Escape From New York or all these others. Yeah, I don't automatically hate all remakes. Certainly there used to be at least a little more of a common sense approach to remakes. But not these days. So far, the worst remake has got to be the terrible remake of Vanishing Point. HOLY CRAP! That remake was THEE SHITTIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!
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thank you very much, I'm here all night.
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The original movie is relatively slow-moving, as interested in the inner workings of the MTA as it is in the crime, and develops a very cordial and professional relationship between the criminals and the professionals. Clearly Tony Scott will gut all that, so what are you left with? Another whiz-bang heist movie. Why bother getting the rights?
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that is all that it comes down to these days. No originality, and the belief that they can "improve" or "modernize" a classic, (which means they don't really see it as a "classic" otherwise they would just leave it be). Highly unlikely we will ever see a remake of Star Wars, or The Godfather. Somehow, they have made it to that "untouchable" category (so it seems). But anything "in between" is fair game? Bullshit. Just because one "can" figure out a way to do something a little different doesn't mean one should do it. Hey, lets go back to the moon, but this time lets do it a little bit different. Instead, lets have (blah blah blah). Pointless.
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The 123 means 1:23pm, and should have been 1323 anyway
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Of all the people to remake this!! Tony Scott is a hack...Man On Fire was CRAP!! Next you'll be telling us Dane Cook is playing the Robert Shaw roll!
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I tire of it, the remake news, and yet people still go like lambs to the slaughter, whining all the while that Hollywood does nothing original anymore as they buy tickets to useless crap like Rob Zombie's Shitoween!
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South Park fans will get it.
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It's a subway line, not a number count. Damn, I'm sick of Quint.
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Why can't Hollywood do anything original? They need to stay away from The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3. That movie is a classic and should remain the only version.
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...wasn't INSIDE MAN enough of a Denzel Washington-starring TAKING OF PELHAM 123 remake for people? Now they have to try for the actual property? Whatfuckingever. Just makes me want to get the original.
Also, there is no way that the music will be as cool as what David Shire wrote for the original.
All together, now:
Dun-dun-dun, duh-dun, duh-dun
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I hope Tony Scott shakes his shaky-cam ten times shakier, just to piss all of you off! I wish I could somehow shake all the letters of this text just for added effect.
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I wouldn't mind being remade. But it had better be an awesome (character driven) script with some top notch actors. This is the type of flick though that some Suit is going to want to populate with meaningless action and unnecessary romance.
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Go ahead and say this movie is gonna kick ass!
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Tony Scott puts out frenetic tripe. We all know that. Denzel hasn't made a worthwhile movie since Training Day. Why he's mixed up with Scott when he should be doing movies with Antoine Fuqua is only obvious to me, I guess.
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"BEHOLD!,RERUN,REHASH,REIMAGINED, RETAKE,REMAKE," Nice post. I could not agree more.
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Clive Owen...?
I love the original so I don't think the world needs a remake (it was a perfect time capsule of NYC in the 70s). However, if Denzel is doing it and it's half as good as INSIDE MAN it could be decent. (Maybe Spike Lee should do it and not Tony Scott? With Clive doing Robert Shaw?)
Lee Wallace, Doris Roberts and Tony Roberts as a Koch-like Mayor and company were the best part of the movie. Oddly, the movie was done years before Koch was elected mayor so it seemed kind of prophetic -- like Peter Sellers playing Dr Strangelove like Kissinger years before Kissinger was Sec. of State.
Great movie, guys, don't fuck up the remake and film it in Toronto!
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He is just perfect in these type of movies.
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Didn't Denzel kind of do this already with "The Inside Man." Okay so it was a bank and not a train, but the "how the heck are these guys gonna get outta there" and the tit-for-tat between Clive Owne and Denzel was very reminiscint of the relationship between Robert Shaw and Matthau in "Pelham 123." And "Inside Man" was a distinctly of-the-times NYC movie much in the same way "Pelham 123" was. Plus, didn't they already do a shitty remake of "Pelham 123" with Admiral Adama? Come on Hollywood. Think up something new! let Fat Caz Delowitz rest in peace!
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Never saw DOG DAY AFTERNOON, but I did see the original PELHAM. The similarities are numerous:
Hostage situation with level-headed British antagonist vs. determined New York City cop (while taking time to engage in amusing banter with his partner). The antagonist's associates have similar codenames, while the hostages are of different character types.
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The original is way overrated. Not even close to the same league as "Charley Varrick." It's a fairly middling 70s thriller where the whole tension is based on one of the heisters being a loose cannon, and the ending for Shaw's character was awful. If there is anything that irritates me more than lavishing praise well beyond the level of which it is deserved and thus ruining the enjoyment of a movie, it's the generic "no more remakes" complaints that sprout up whenever any of these are announced. You assholes turn the internet into a haven for whiny bitches. Get over it.
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Of course Pelham is not in the same league as Charley Varrick. They are two totally different kinds of films. Yeah, they are both thrillers of a sort, but honestly they are very different kinds of films. I love Charley Varrick. Wish they would release it in a Widescreen version, but until then, I'll make do with the full screen I have. Varrick is arguably Walter Matthau's finest role/performance. Simply an outstanding film.
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oh I almost forgot, everyone is free to have an opinion, even someone like you who is ignorant enough to call people "assholes" for having them. As the saying goes, OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES, EVERYONE'S GOT ONE. Try not speaking out of your asshole the next time, huh? were keeping it friendly here, why can't you?
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I just read over at IMDB, someone claimed that Varrick was originally shot in fullscreen. Not sure if that is true, but I'll admit that the version on dvd does not appear to be cropped, or cut in anyway, so maybe that is the case. If anyone knows for sure, speak up.
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"Geshunteit." [opens door and stares]
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With Vincent Donofrio and Donnie Walberg with Admiral Adama as the cop. It was good, well reviewed and a solid update. Wonder if it will be released on DVD to cash in.
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Whatever happened to that? I can't wait to see Keanu singing hippie songs down at the local indian reservation. He can try and stop the man from building a casino or something...
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Someone ought to a movie about hollywood cashing in and ripping people off with lame remakes and stupid squeals. Focus on a particular director or something, make it a comedy/thriller. Kind of do it like a National Lampoon thing or something.
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Keep it up with the repetition of worthless posts one right after another and the all caps and the insisting that everyone has a right to an opinion, because previously I was somehow denying people the ability to have opinions. This fulfills my quota of being bombarded by internet stupid for the day.
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I know there have been movie making fun of particular films, but that's not what I mean. I mean, something that focuses on the machinery and stupidity behind the film making, done as a comedy/thriller or something.
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Because that wasn't good. What about FALLING ANGEL, a terrific book ruined as a movie (ANGEL HEART)? Or SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES? Or FATHERLAND?
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But this FUCK REMAKES bit seems a tad over-the-top to me. Just sayin'.All you can do really is hope that it's good and wait for the next Charlie Kauffman or Wes Anderson movie. Y'know, those people who actually HAVE IDEAS. DAMN.
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tony scott and denzel make it sound boring. get a new director and a new star.
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of course it was a bit over the top, its an over the top subject. : )
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And then re-remade . . .
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if you want to sabotage (pun intended) this talkback you need to post beastie boy lyrics..
You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Mike D Come On And Rock The Sure Shot
I've Got The Brand New Doo-Doo Guaranteed
Like Yoo Hoo
I'm On Like Dr John, Yea Mr Zu Zu
I'm A Newlywed, Not A Divorcee
And Everything I Do Is Funky Like Lee Dorsey
IMPORTANT!!!
Well, It's The Taking of the Pelham, One, Two, Three
If You Want A Doo doo Rhyme Then Come See Me
I've Got The Savior Faire With The Unique Rhyme
And
I Keep It On And On, It's Never Quitting Time And
Strictly Hand Held Is The Style I Go
Never Rock The Mic With The Panty Hose
I Strap On My Ear Goggles And I'm Ready To Go
'Couse At The Boards Is The Man They Call The
Mario
Pull Up At The Function And You Know I Kojak
To All The Party People That Are On My Bozak
I've Got More Action Than My Man John Woo
And I've Got Mad Hits Like I Was Rod Carew
You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Ad Rock Come And Rock The Sure Shot
Hurricane Will Cross Fade On Your Ass And
Bust Your Ear Drums
Listen Everybody 'Cause I'm Shifting Gears I'm
Fresh Like Dougie When I Set My Specs And
On The Microphone I Come Correct
Timing Like A Clock When I'Rock The Hip Hop
Top Notch Is My Stock On The Soap Box
I've Got More Rhymes Than I've Got Grey Hairs
And That's A lot Because I've Got My Share
I've Got A Hole In My Head And There's No One
To Fix It
Got To Straighten My Thoughts, I'm Thinking Too
Much Sick Shit
Everyone Just Takes and Takes, Takes, Takes,
Takes
I've Got To Step Back, I've Got To Contemplate
I'm Like Lee Perry, I'm Very
On Rock The Microphone And Then I'm Gone
I'm Like Vaughn bode, I'm a Cheech Wizard
Never Quitting, So Won't You Listen
Oh Yes Indeed, It's Fun Time
'Cause You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
MCA Come And Rock The Sure Shot
I Want To Say a Little Something That's Long
Overdue
The Disrespect To Women Has Got To Be Through
To All The Mothers And Sisters And the
Wives And Friends
I Want To Offer My Love And Respect To The
End
Well You Say I'm Twenty Something And Should
Be Slacking
But I'm Working Harder Than Ever And You Could
Call It Macking
So I'm Supposed To Sit Upon My Couch Watching My
T.V.
I'm Still Iistening To Wax, I'm Not Using The CD
I'm That Kid In The Corner
All Fucked Up And I Wanna So I'm Gonna
Take A Piece Of The Pie, Why Not, I'm Not Quitting
Think I'm Gonna Change Up My Style Just To Fit In
I Keep My Underwear Up With A Piece Of Elastic
I Use A Bullshit Mic That's Made Out Of Plastic
To Send My Rhymes Out To All Nations
Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications
Mike D Come On And Rock The Sure Shot
I've Got The Brand New Doo-Doo Guaranteed
Like Yoo Hoo
I'm On Like Dr John, Yea Mr Zu Zu
I'm A Newlywed, Not A Divorcee
And Everything I Do Is Funky Like Lee Dorsey
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fun time
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"Impressive, MOST IMPRESSIVE!" -Vader.
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Thus, re-making a re-make. Which makes it post-modern, and not just another re-make.
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Why even try to remake this? The thing I love in Pelham is that because of the theme you know you are in for a badass movie within one second. You don't even start the movie. There's no way a remake could top that (only competition for most immediately badass movie is Long Good Friday).
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THEY can just remake a movie, whenever they want to, on a whim. I agree, I think it would be cool to remake it right, but you know it won't be done right.
Wouldn't it be great if all original scripts and franchise rights were housed in one place, like the Cyberdyne Building in Terminator 2? Then we'd just have to break Sarah out of Pescadero, head there, and blow the place up..... -
...be played by Sean Bean, of course, because he's British, and vaguely menacing, and cheap. Unless they go all out and Americanize the part and give it to Wes Bentley. Oh, and Justin Timberlake will get the Martin Balsam role. Maybe Jason Schwartzman. Oh, I know, Matthew Broderick. And the appeal of the Matthau character was that he was kind of a mook, and that's not right for Washington. Love the movie. Love Shaw and Matthau. Damn screen name I use here comes from a Shaw character. This will blow at approximately the same level as the remake of Assault on Precinct 13. But at least it won't have Ethan Hawke in it. Or will it?
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That is all.
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MignolaFan's headline is funny. I adore Quint as one of the writers on this site I get the most out of. However, comedy is comedy.
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Welcome to creatively bankrupt Hollywood.
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Starring Jim Carey. I mean, that's about what; fifteen remakes of that damn movie already and they still can't get it right?
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G@briel Gray. I heard Bryan Singer was working on it, but instead of remaking it, he wants to do a continuation of the awesome Troll saga, in respect to the original directors.
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Does anyone else find it funny that we're talking about a remake of movie starring Robert Shaw from a piece by a guy calling himself Quint?
Yeah, I know it's fucking lame but it's late and I'm bored.
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Terry Lofton is in talks to do a remake of the hit movie "Rock N' Roll Nightmare" starring Michael Pare and the rest of the Cruisers. John Mikl Thor will not return as the star or head writer, but he is slated to do the score and appear in a cameo role as The Grounds Keeper With The Key. The project was (as you may know) originally offered to Uwe Boll. Mr. Boll had to respectfully decline however due to his commitment to the 2008 remake of Cobra starring Clint Howard as the man himself Marion Cobratti. As you can see 2008 bodes well for theater goers, so remember to keep your feet off the seat and eat more popcorn!
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if people thought the 80's was bad for being the decade of sequels, THEY AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET FOLKS. at least there was some originality in one of those part 4's. what kind of decade is this where it makes the 80's look like the 70's??
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He's the best guy for the job.
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One of the better movies about New York you're gonna ever see, and possibly a real eye-opener to younger audiences unfamiliar with Walter Matthau in full take-no-bullshit mode. He's great in this, as are Robert Shaw, Jerry Stiller, and the rest of the cast. Tony Scott is the WRONG director for this material. And I say this as an admirer of DOMINO. Denzel is acceptable, if not my first choice. Tony Scott, fuck no. I'd love to see Spike Lee take on this material.
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That´s one of my favourite movies! Stay away from The Quiet Man!
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King Kong - now that Peter Jackson knows not to have Jack Black in it, he might do it properly this time.
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YOU RETARDED FUCKING ASSHOLES
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You don't mind if I just go ahead and do a sort of... remake of Top Gun do ya? No, don't get me wrong. Your version was good... it's just... I'm kind of an unoriginal hack. Besides, your version doesn't quite have that C.S.I. feel to it that I believe all movies past, present and future should have. Get back to me when you can I gotta make a call to John Carpenter. Take care.
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since its inception.
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is that i get to hear about films I might never have checked out before. So thankyou tony scott and AICN i've just ordered myself a copy of the original for just under a fiver.
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...I was hoping no one would beat me to the Beasties lyrics. Oh well. Maybe I'll just remake your post. Or would that be a re-imagining?
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Yeah, we need a Vern-in on Tony Scott's new project.
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Did you lose your login?
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Man on Fire is a big pile of turd. The movie was sooo rubbish I fell asleep watching it on acid..!
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Conventional, mediocre choices of roles have rendered a once-great star nearly irrelevant.
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Giamatti has the stones and the screen presence to do a good Garber, at least as good as Matthau's.
And if there was a wishlist for actors - Viggo Mortensen for Mr. Blue/Shaw's role. -
Just don´t publish remake news.
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They already remade this for TV a few years back. Of course, they also remade "Vanishing Point" for TV and cluster fucked it. How else could you remake this plot, though? It's kinda specific, and most law enforcement agencies would have contingencies for it. Unless it's a terrorist thing. Anyway, they'll never top the original, especially Bob Shaw's way out. Classic.
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I can't see a modern version of Pelham happening.
The original plot of the hijack/hostage taking - it happens almost every day. It's not "big" any more.
If the plot - and stop me if I'm going a little Die Hard 4 here - had the hijackers using Pelham as a means to control the ENTIRE NY subway system...
Cliched but its a remake. -
I've read the same thing about the fullscreen issue. Time to solve it! (Also, it's time to blackmail Lalo Schifrin into releasing the Varrick soundtrack...)
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I keep it on and on,
Its never quittin' time, -
or the studios. Blame the stupid ass public that makes these things profitable! or blame the ADD ridden youth that couldn't sit through a "classic" because it's too slow or not flashy enough or whatever. The studios are businesses and will continue to make business not artistic decisions.
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Not exactly sure how it can be made better. Tough to improve on the classic original.
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PELHAM is a perfect little movie. But since the remake is going to happen anyway, let's just pray it's better than that Woody Harrelson stink-fest MONEY TRAIN. I'd buy Denzel as the hijacker, but he's too showy for an ordinary working stiff hero. Plus Denzel can do a passable British accent (the ancient among us might remember him playing a Brit soldier in FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY). Mind you, in typing thids, a thought strikes me. Gene Hackman (if he feels like coming out of retirement) in the Robert Shaw role. Hackman and Washington both shone in CRIMSON TIDE with Scott's direction in a similarly claustrophobic environment. Pack the supporting cast with decent character actors and away we go. They better keep the original David Shire score though...
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Bliss.
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To Mr. 'Ramin Djawadi is the best man for the job'...on behalf of all film music fans at this site, you're not funny. Suck a dick.
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The original TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE itself was based on the wonderful bestselling novel by John Godey - a fabulous read, by the way. The casting of Denzel Washington is an indication that they are basing this new version more on the book than the film, as Mathau's character was actually a black man originally. Also, the character wasn't "a kind of goofy guy" in the novel. So, perhaps this isn't exactly a remake but a different approach to the original source material. I have to agree with a few talkbackers here, I feel like I am getting a bit tired of all the outrage about "remakes". Theatrical plays get remounted and re-invisioned all the time. Great literature gets translated more than once into the same language. Sure, some films should definitely be left alone, like CASABLANCA. But I don't think the film of THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE was so sacred that it can't be remade, a bit more faithfully too.
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...to see if they use all that mr. brown, mr. green stuff, and if so, how many dorks accuse tony scott of biting tarantino. now THAT would be irony.
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... the new F-18 Super Hornets the Navy uses now are so much cooler than those antique F-14's were. Actually I like F-14s.
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Sep 24, 2007 9:10:48 PM CDT
When Tony Scott and Denzel love each other very much...
by mrmysteryguest
they express their love in a very intimate way, and nine months later, a movie is born. :P
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Leave this one alone please. Same goes for Charley Varrick.
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survival of the crap
there can be only crap
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Sep 24, 2007 10:28:34 PM CDT
What next? A Dog Day Afternoon remake with Brad Pitt?!
by dallasgoodbar
Oh no, forget I said that. -Death to bad cinema!!!
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It could revitalize both Lindsay and Britney's career. I could so see Mischa Barton as the Sharon Tate character and Li-Lo would nail it as Neely O'hara.
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The original was fucking awesome. Then they remade the thing as a made-for-TV movie that sucked balls. Why bother? The fucking movie is just 30 years old and was fucking awesome then! And who could replace Robert Shaw? Not even Crowe. Maybe Clive Owen, but that's a stretch. And Denzel, as good as he is, taking the Matthau role? Matthau was great as well! Fuck these horse cocksuckers in Hollywood. I have the utmost respect for Tony Scott and Denzel Washington, but remake after remake got old and tells me no one is bothering with fresh ideas.
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The original cast returns, only this time Goose dies in the first ten minutes. His Thetan is compromised and Xenu needs two top guns to rectify the situation. Enter Maveric and Iceman who hop in their DC-8s flying out of a top secret U.S volcano located in Mt. Washington. Destination: Venus. Sky-way to the Thetan zone. -HAIL XENU!-
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Touch the third rail Tony and Denzel
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Sep 25, 2007 4:19:45 AM CDT
"Wait a minute! I just figured out how they're going to
by motoko kusanagi
get away: they're going to fly the train to Cuba."Bwahahahaha! Lots of classic lines in this classic action flick. Love it! I just hope that Scott will reduce the shaky cam and quick cut parts to a minimum.
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