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Early entry in the trash remake market

posted 13 years ago by ccr1633
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The last 10-15 years have seen a flood of garbage remakes of cool 70s and 80s cult classics. Gone in 60 Seconds, vastly inferior to the original, definitely helped kick off the trend. When do you think this nasty trend really began? I remember thinking when this film came out, "Hey, a remake of one of my favorite relatively unknown 70s flicks. Cool!" And then it turned out to be dogzhit. Now I hate all the remakes the instant I hear of their existence.

[–] luccin 13 years ago

The original Gone in 60 seconds is dire. The actors are crap at best, the plot is non existent and even the famous car chase is dull as it goes on far far too long. Even the Mustang looks sh*t and that is one tough car to make look bad.

Some remakes are better, this is one of them.

[–] scoup 12 years ago

I haven't seen the original but this was a fun watch. Cage is entertaining and Ribisi usually brings an A game.

[–] herbsuperb 12 years ago

Actually this is the only one of Ribisi's performances (that I've seen) that I don't really like. I love most of his work, but I just don't think he brought a lot to this one. But I enjoy the film. It's not a great piece of film-making but it's a lot of fun.

[–] m-slovak79 12 years ago

luccin pretty much summed it up quite well about the original film.

the remake is clearly superior simply because it's more interesting/entertaining at the end of the day.

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[–] Kruleworld 12 years ago

The original Gone in 60 seconds is dire. The actors are crap at best, the plot is non existent and even the famous car chase is dull as it goes on far far too long. Even the Mustang looks sh*t and that is one tough car to make look bad.

true, but a few points;

1974-they weren't actors, they were friends of the director
2000-there's a few A-list actors

1974-the car chase uses real cars and real streets, not cgi. they even had a few 'real' accidents that they kept in the film.
2000-the final jump in the 2000 movie is cgi, which was a real cop out and looks really fake).

1974-it was HB's first film
2000-Sena was in the industry for decades (albeit mostly music videos).

[–] orange_yellow 10 years ago

the final jump in the 2000 movie is cgi, which was a real cop out and looks really fake

Maybe you should look up the meaning of a cop-out.
Because that wasn't one.

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[–] Kruleworld 9 years ago

Maybe you should look up the meaning of a cop-out

ok,
Urban Dictionary: "cop out"
n. refers to taking the easy way out of a sticky situation.
using cgi was a cop-out because jumping fake car was easier than doing it for real.
fake, fake, fake, fake.

Hell, even the remake of Dukes of Hazzard jumped a real car (no one was in it, but the car did fly).

did i mention it looks fake?

It’s ridiculous to critique a movie with the argument 'it's not real, so it doesn't matter'

[–] Doc80 9 years ago

Yeah, heaven forbid they use modern technology to film a stunt in a safer way and without having to worry about someone getting injured or having to reshoot it.

[–] Kruleworld 9 years ago

I did say that Dukes of Hazzard (2005) used a real car. I'm not against them using new technology, but if it looks crap and takes viewers out of the movie, then you're just deluding yourself that it's somehow 'better'. Sure it might be safer, but movie makers have been jumping cars for 70 years. stuntmen are professionals and know what they are doing. if they can't do it safely, they will find a safer alternative or they won't do it. If it wasn't safe, they could have jumped the car with less height or less speed or even trick angles like they did with the bus in Speed (1994).

this isn't supposed to be a low budget affair like the original.

does this look real to you?
http://john3corrigan.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/large-image.jpg

"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"

[–] powerboatrider 9 years ago

LOLOLOLOL there was nothing cool about 70's movies. The large majority of them sucked the huge one. The original Gone in Sixty Seconds was complete and utter trash.

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