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2nd Trailer for the 2nd Movie Titled THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123!
Hey folks, Harry here... It's a shame when you love a film and you see that film getting remade. It's hard. Because EVERYTHING that I love about the original film isn't in this trailer. Seriously. Here's the new trailer: watch this trailer in HD Quicktime! Or watch here:
The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 trailer
Now is any of that cooler than this:
Ok - Now that's only about a 1000 times cooler - and it's just the score for the original over the opening titles on simple black. NOW - look at the original's trailer:
It seems that this new film is essentially an excuse to have Travolta and Washington acting at each other - And the film right now - at least via a trailer - it isn't exuding any kind of trace of "awesome" like the original does in spades in its trailer.
BUT - what if this film is badass? The screenplay for the new one is from one of my favorite screenwriters, Brian Helgeland. And Tony Scott more than has the capacity to make something cool. So far, I'm just not seeing it. What about y'all?
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Yup-MLB
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There was already a DTV remake with James Gandolfini 10 years ago.
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Um-enough with the remakes-
However, travolta vs. Washington-could be a right bloody mashup :-) -
Then Tony Scott will know how it feels.
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...Edward James Olmos. Might be one of the biggest freudian slips in the history of AICN...
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...If you dare to post!!!
It's good to be the king.
DGDB-I'm looking at you compadre :-)
-MLB -
I'm thoroughly unimpressed with both trailers. Looks like they are trading in all the subtlety and character development of the original for explosions and car wrecks. And what the fuck is with the wife from the first trailer? Looks like some bad acting from perennial hams Travolta and Denzel. I'll watch the original on DVD instead.
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At least this remake is rated R. I give them that.But I love the original and there's no fucking way that Scott's remake is anywhere near the original's brilliance.Plus, there's no Matthau in it. No Matthau = no brilliance.
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Apr 01, 2009 5:14:45 AM CDT
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit taking methamphetamine
by sleeperkid
1 MILLION DOLLARS. That was a lot back then.
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...Speed, basically?
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Goatee vs. Porno Mustache...there can be only one.
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Because it seems like you're almost obliged to watch that boring car-spinning-in-midair shit whether the plot requires it or not.
If it's putting food on some working class Joe's table, then forget I asked... -
Lord knows i like me some Denzel-but good god...
Tony scott remaking a crappy made for TV movie?!?
And who the hell wants to live taking public transport?!?
I'd be volunteering-*Shoot Me First Please-This sucks!!!*
And, btw, It's Walter *Motherfucking* Matthau.
You need to get some respect son.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
-MLB
P.S. Don't get me started about Ustinov.
P.P.S Anybody that chooses to to post on this talkback now has to watch two movies:
Zardoz
and
Blood-Sucking Freaks
That is all.
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Woot, fucking awesome. Tony Scott is fucking awesome, best visual guy out there (besides Bay, Snyder and Verbinski).
I watched the original movie thanks to a link on this site to hulu.. Man, that movie was so fucking bad, it's unbelievable.
The score was awful.. the actors as well. The story boring as shit.
Thank god this got this great remake, which actual atmosphere.. and finally - as it seams - an old school good/bad guy movie again. -
Sigh.
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Don't care-not gonna watch RDJ and JF-*still not gonna watch*
When's Watchmen going to be fucking our eyeballs?!?
Lols-I can't contain myself
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movie....tony scott telling travolta to accept his receding hairline. got 99 problems but a toupee ain't one
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keep trollin
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Between the Jay-Z song in the beginning with the "visual scratching" and the 10 second shot of the police car doing 50 flips like it's a bugs bunny cartoon this is pretty much the most ridiculous shit i have seen today. Funny how out of touch Tony Scott is, his movies used to be kinda cool sometimes...
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mmmm Da Dum Dum Dum....
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they sure as hell should have a spoiler tag at the end of that trailer. Heh. It sort of kills the tension of whether they meet or not.
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is loud obnoxious wannabe hip hop to try to trick your senses into thinking you're watching something bad ass. But really it's just a Tony Scott film.
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No Walter Matthau??
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flies 50 feet in the air, over a railing, landing on an entirely different road. That's right it's not mom and pops action that created tension. No sir, this is action strictly for the "wow" factor of the ADHD world today.
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"Can I get coffee" boomchaka boomchacka wickee wickee.
Time to watch the awesome pen writing sequence of Hot Fuzz. -
If so, will it be "The Taking of the Pelham 123 2"?
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Apr 01, 2009 7:20:43 AM CDT
Of course not. The title would be Taking of Bay Ridge 345
by kikuchiyoboy
Or something. Wickey wickeee
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Love that APC song, but it doesn't really work in the new trailer. Should be in a better looking movie.
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a good point! i remember seeing "Phelam 1, 2, 3" being listed as on TV, and thus told all to watch it as it was a masterpiece. it was the remake you speak of that they showed, and i had an awful lot of explaining to do.....
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I think it looks good. I have never seen the original so I can't bash it. The originals opening reminds me a tad of The Equalizer, which btw is one of the best openings ever for a tv show or movie. As for this, I'm in! I hope Travolta rocks it and I hope Scott goes apeshit with this one. It would be sweet to remake The Equalizer though. Maybe have Terry O Quinn in the part...anyway....back to pinching my nips...
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The only good movie he has ever made was True Romance, and lets face it, that was because of the fun freshness of Tarantino's script. His shooting style is garbage, his stories are fucking trash, and he's only allowed to direct because of his bro. Such a hack, I'm so sick of his terrible movies. (Top Gun, Domino, Man on Fire, Deja Vu) HATE
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People always pretend they like these original movies everytime a remake is announce. Truth be told 98% of the ppl have never even thought about seeing the orignal Pelham or even know of it.I like Walter but its not like the original was gold or some shit. It was a an ok film that was kinda boring and anti-climatic.If ppl want to see and cherish the original Pelham its right there to rent or Netflix but these "pretenders" know they could give two nuts about the Walter and the original Pelham.This looks good compare to the GIJOE and TRANSFORMERS shit that coming down the pike and will do nothing but CGI everything scene from scene.
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Apr 01, 2009 9:30:57 AM CDT
That car flip is better stunted than that shit scene...
by hollywoodhellraiser
in the NEW Fast and Furious movie where that obvious CGI tanker rolling. At least Tony Scott gives us real stunt and not CGI scenes to insult us. We're so used to CGI laden movies that some of us can't even appreciate real stuntwork.It is this reason that The Expendable will probably break ahead of its budget by a slight margin.The new generation can't appreciate real action movies involving real stunts. Its just too much awesomeness for them to handle. They can't bear the fact that someone may have been hurt or killed performing these stunts. CGI car chases, fight scenes, and explosions help these weak individuals sleep comfortably without nightmares. Bay and his CGI lapdogs knows that the new gen will drop buckets for their shit and claim they have just witness the best movie of their lives!
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...Thats got to be one of the worst trailers I've ever seen. Fucking noisy, random, pointless, boring. What a cluster fuck. Tony Scott really does fucking suck.
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I'm sorry, i take that back. This isn't the most ridiculous thing i've seen today. That honor goes to the first half hour of Wolverine i saw before tuning out because it was so laughable. You're lucky Tony Scott. Any other day...
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Half of Pelham's fun is in the New York humor. There are some genuine laugh out loud jokes.
I'm hoping this remake retains that.
pJ -
But it's Tony Scott, so it's not like it was ever going to be good.By the way, whenever I watch the original, I only pretend I like it to impress Talkbackers like HollywoodHellraiser.
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Travolta making his bulldog face AGAIAN?! How many times can he play the same villain? With all the fine heavies around nowadays, you'd think they would have filled Shaw's shoes with someone more talented...
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Yeah, that would have been a good start. Heh.
Shaw>Travolta
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I'm very fond of the original film - Matthua vs Shaw? Great stuff! But this looks like it could be some decently entertaining Friday night film. I'm kinda hoping they've put ALL the action beats in the trailer and that there'll be lots more character and crackling dialogue in the actual movie. A Crimson Tide with a Subway rather than a submarine will do me – and Scott and Washington always deliver some good often exciting watchable gubbins – in the aforementioned Crimson Tide, and Man on Fire and Déjà vu. And Déjà vu. I’m not bothering with Transformers 2 so this movie can have its custom for me.
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He seems to pop up in these competently made but incredibly forgettable "thrillers". Travolta on the other hand should be goin' straight to DVD.
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Agreed with HH. Just because it's old don't mean it's better. Let's face that reality for a second. Yes, remakes suck for the most part (most recently remakes of films made not more than 10 years ago), but you know what? There's a reason I kinda like watching flicks whose directors have access to, you know, EXPERIENCE and TECHNOLOGY.
Some classics are fucking amazing and untouchable, but others just can't stand the test of time.
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First you shit on the poster after CROPPING IT ON PURPOSE TO SUIT YOUR CRITICISIM OF IT(You fucking know you did that)..then you run the trailer with "this looks horrible"...MIND YOU HARRY..you are the asshole that thinks a movie is good if an audience does (your fast and furious review)...Whats a matter...Tony Scott have better things to do then invite you and your hack fucking writers to the set?
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and the point of changing a character driven movie into an action movie was what exactly?
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If you count the TV movie with Edward James Olmos from 1998.
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If they'd put Travolta in the role that Hector Elizondo played in the original, and had someone like Tom Hanks or Steve Martin play the Robert Shaw role.
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The original was all shades of awesome. But then it did have Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau and Martin Balsam. Harry's right though. The people involved in this have too high a pedigree to just dismiss it. I will keep an open mind....
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Apr 01, 2009 12:56:04 PM CDT
And Denzel Washington should have played Harvey Dent in The Dark
by royston lodge
'nuff said.
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W.T.F?!?
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THAT'LL be the day...!
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I'm talking about the new Tony Scott! Gave away too much plot perhaps, but I've seen the original so that's not bothering me. The music isn't even really my type, but that trailer seriously rocked. You know that feeling when you eat a starburst candy and the pleasure synapses in the back of you're brain start popping off? - That's what Tony Scott just did to me. I don't know what 'scratching' people are talking about, I thought at first it was going to be that horrible digitally imposed trailer film scratches like they put on Grindhouse, Rambo and Punisher ads. Maybe there was record scratches or something on the soundtrack, because the picture looked beautiful and slick. I can't even fathom what would compel a person to try and make an argument that Tony Scott sucks or that he's only allowed to direct because of Ridley. Tony is one of the absolute godfathers of the modern action movie, and he's still out there inovating and pushing action filmmaking. Forget True Romance, this guy made Revenge, The Hunger, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Last Boy Scout, Crimson Tide, Spy Game, Man On Fire...I mean, people. Sincerly. TONY SCOTT IS AWESOME! Top Gun, Days Of Thunder, The Fan, Enemy Of The State, Deja Vu - all this guys flicks are cool in a very pleasurable way. Who, I ask has a better, more prolific and illustrious action resume? I promise, you that hate Tony Scott reveil yourselves as haters of cinema in general. Guys an absolute genius at what he does, no question. Haters - you all are some looney nerds, quite making unfounded defemations. I'm convinced alot of you all don't even bother watching movies, you see a minute or two one day on TV and make a bold difinitve statement about that film or it's makers some mounths later. You act like you saw the volley-ball scene while channel surfing on tv when you were 11 and dicided right there on the spot that whoever made you feel this way about Val Kilmer sucks. Haha, I'm close aren't I? I'm just joking, but for real...Name me ten, hell I'll take five, FIVE better action directors in all the history of cinema, and I'll call you a liar. Don't make me do it, in fact if you can give me 5 names above T.Scott in the action genre, let's just assume you've already been identified as insincere and leave it at that. So what do you got? I got Cameron, Spielberg, McTiernan and maybe, MAYBE Donner! Bay doesn't count because he assentially just plagerizes T.Scott, Cameron and a bit of Spielberg. In fact anyone else in the running just copies those afore mentioned. I would actually accept Mel Gibson if he'd just made a few more movies, because I thing his action style is brilliant. Don't dare say Ridley, because Tony is far more proficient at an action sequence than his brother has ever been. Alright I'm not even gonna argue about it, my point's been made and now I'm off...
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You know, Michael Bay does actually do more practical effect than any other filmmaker in the history of action filmmaking. So I'm not sure why he should be synonymous with CG. Nobody spends more time, effort, money, and sweat making eloborate explosions and car crashes practically. I mean some things are beyond feasibility. Trasforming robots are actually impossible to build, so you know. I think the people who truely deserve your scorn for relying on their "CG lapdogs" would be Lucas, Emmerich, Rodriguez, Cohen, Singelton, Bekmambetov and Tamahori. Those guys are shameless with their CG, they have no excuse except lazyness and ineptitude. I give Bay some credit, he usually doesn't go CG unless it's the only option to achieve what's needed, and even then surrounds it with as much practical atmosphere and FX as possible. Other than that I agree with you.
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awesome
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That doesn't really roll right off the fingertips...
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... when we can have NEW versions? I'm cool with this not trying to copycat the original. Zach Snyder understood that in his Dawn of the Dead remake, and that's why that movie was superb. Given the names involved, I'm really anticipating this one.
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The remake trailer feels like something from the mid 90's. That bad hard core industrial rock music playing, who listens to that stuff? I mean really, Tony Scott has become his own cliche. (He needs Yoko as music supervisor.) Unfortunaltley his recent work looks all interchangeable. Thats too bad because he is one of the nicest men in the world. I love the original film. It is an underrated classic. If you are a lover of film, you need to see the original. It's an amazing balance of suspense and humor and the score. one of the best of all time. I will see this remake but will walk out if it opens to a industrial rock version of the original theme. Its not a film, it is a remake. Know the difference!
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I like A Perfect Circle but didnt realize it was their music in the trailer. not one i know and certainly not the best. the only reason they used that APC song was because they are one of the better bands making that type of music. Still. Its dated and really out of touch. Advertising to the lowest common denominator, where hollywood knows where the money is.
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And feels like they're trying to hide the fact. And Genteel - Tony Scott is actually not a very good filmmaker. His chop-shop style was good for music videos but was an early injection of poison that's killing modern movie making.
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I would have loved to be sitting in on the meeting where it was decided to replace Quint with Tony Manero. That's like switching out a rottweiler with a tampon.
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however MB I just can't behind his CGI as well. Sorry,
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THE SALINAS JACKPOT!!! that was cool Harold. But I hold out some hope for the this new one. It should be okay, too.
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Why would they remake this if they weren't going to add anything to it? The film looks like bland commercial crap.
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That looks exactly like Travolta in the trailer.
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and ridiculously underrated, no one can top the characters he played. Seriously he played the best Bond baddy, Quint, Mr. Blue, etc. etc.
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Awesome title cue up there with Dirty Harry and Magnum force for 70's atonal funk!
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I like the new slow motion, blurry images in the new trailer. I also like to the cool rock type music. I'm an idiot because I hate things old. I also hate originality so I love all these remakes coming out. Yip-ee.
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You are a 1000% right. Tony Scott is an incredible director, and I look forward to all his movies. He is still our best working action director and I have no problem with remaking Pelham. In fact, I probably would of never seen or heard of Pelham if it were not for this remake. So I would like to thank Scott for putting me onto such an awesome movie.
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