30-05-2003 21:22									#1
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According to the banner ad I saw on yahoo.ca, coming may 30 is a hollywood remake of the classic michael caine 'the Italian job', with the usually 20 something 'hairdos' of this generation.

Get Carter was the last Michael Caine remake: it had some saving graces
-Michael Caine is in it.
-Things blow up OK (not as violent as the original; the computer porn concept was stupid)


but a lot of lemons:
-Jack is Stallone, so he has to be remade into a bruiser-type
-tacked on crap happy ending
-Jack is way too moral; in the original he killed all the time in nasty ways.

Now the Italian Job is a great Michael Caine brit-gangster movie. It has probably some of the greatest car chase scenes in movie history.

Even the top of the famous factory in Turin!

But its going to be ruined by a bunch of 21st century 'mussed hair and goatee' ****ers!!

CONSOLATION PLEASE.

	30-05-2003 21:24									#2
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Hey! Thou shalt not badmouth Donald Sutherland!

	30-05-2003 21:27									#3
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So are they at least going to have a Mini Cooper in this version?

	30-05-2003 21:27									#4
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Are they going to leave the audience hanging in hopes of a sequel this time?

	30-05-2003 21:31									#5
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Another boring remake will be upon us.

	30-05-2003 21:34									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin So are they at least going to have a Mini Cooper in this version?

According to Salon, that's the best thing about this movie.

	30-05-2003 21:42									#7
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"According to Salon, that's the best thing about this movie"

Ugh...

	30-05-2003 22:00									#8
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What are they doing coming in here and making such a fracas? They were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

I want to get hold of the people responsible for this and give them a good going-over. Not killed, mind you. Just given a good going-over.

Maybe the Americans aren't the kind of people who recognise young talent and are willing to give it a chance after all?

Get the wheels in li ... get the wheels in line with it!

Hang on a minute lads ... I've had an idea ......

	30-05-2003 22:22									#9
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eddie norton is in it though, he's one of my fav actors.

	30-05-2003 22:26									#10
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yeah Ed Norton

	30-05-2003 22:27									#11
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Yeah, Edward Norton's cool.

Mark Wahlberg is playing Charlie Croker, though. That ain't cool. That's a crime.

	30-05-2003 22:28									#12
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Are they going to leave the audience hanging in hopes of a sequel this time?

Awful, truly awful.

	30-05-2003 23:00									#13
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I liked the Ocean's Eleven remake. This sound similar.

	30-05-2003 23:22									#14
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the trailer for this movie is SO horrible... I'm an Ed Norton fan too, but he clearly is phoning this role in (I heard that he only did this due to contractual obligations).

	30-05-2003 23:27									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch Awful, truly awful.

eh?

	30-05-2003 23:56									#16
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Do you remember how the film ended?

	31-05-2003 00:00									#17
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I thought you liked puns, BC?

DD: did you not realise your own joke?

	31-05-2003 00:05									#18
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet I thought you liked puns, BC?

Only to grate PH with.

	31-05-2003 00:09									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch Only to grate PH with.

They're always so cheesy it's not only him who gets grated.

Holy **** that's a bad one. sorry.

	31-05-2003 00:24									#20
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I love Edward Nortan! He's so un-mainstream it makes him cool! I don't care if he's in a mainstream movie, I'll pretend he's not selling out, because he's too unique and a non-pretty boy to ever do that! By rejecting the status quo, it makes him automatically good at whatever he does! He was prolly teased by the 'A' crowed too when he was younger. *sad face*

....

	31-05-2003 00:29									#21
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Ed Norton is non mainstream??? you obviously never saw "keeping the faith".

	31-05-2003 00:30									#22
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this movie looks lame

	31-05-2003 00:38									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch Do you remember how the film ended?

Didn't it end when the getaway bus they were all in was hanging over a cliff?

Anyway I'm sure the remake will be trash. Today's society is too lame to understand the classic humour that was in the original. Today's society is addicted to pretty cars and fast action. That is why I think the remake will blow. The original had action but a great story and British humour!

	31-05-2003 00:40									#24
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Dietrich, is your sig from Shaft? Another remake.

	31-05-2003 00:46									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Sava Dietrich, is your sig from Shaft? Another remake.

Nah, my sig as well as my avatar are from Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Now how's that for humor? I just trashed people for loving fast cars and fast action. And look at the type of games I play!

Anyway I still think the remake will be bad. Nothing is ever as good as an original.

	31-05-2003 02:08									#26
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet DD: did you not realise your own joke?

No. I had just read that they ended the original movie with a cliffhanger. I didn't realize they meant it literally.

	02-06-2003 13:09									#27
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Hollywood won't allow the endimg to be the same.

The whole idea is criminal

	02-06-2003 13:12									#28
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It wasn't supposed to be an exact remake I understood.

	02-06-2003 13:50									#29
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like the remake of get carter, this will be pure, unadulterated shite.

	02-06-2003 16:45									#30
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Look on the bright side folks - if Hollywood is so short of new ideas for films, now is the time to become a screenwriter.

The dark side is that the UK film industry is so FUBAR that is in no position to produce films half as good as the original anymore.