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I love almost everything about this movie. It's such a ton of fun. One of the subway hostages in the movie was played by a woman whose daughter was my babysiter when I was mad young. Also, years later, when I worked in the movie business, I got to know the wife of the sound guy. She is a wonderful New Yorker, with stories for days and the accent and attitude to match. She grew up in Little Italy, and her husband recorded wild sound for most of the movie's audio. In the final scene, when the subway screeches into a downtown station, the sound effects came from sliding the shower rings in their bathroom.
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The main point of the entry is to link to this
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Boston Herald article in which Brian Cashman is made to look prophetic.
GREAT story Alex.
That movie was unfortunately remade a few years ago with lesser actors, and scenes filmed in faux New York (aka Vancouver)!
Yes ... the ending is a classic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taking_of_Pelham_1_2_3_(2009_film)
And I said to self, "Cynthia ain't no prize either", I was actually more disappointed with Kravitz for picking her. He can do better...
I think all that's left is that ARod is also messing around with Amy Winehouse, that would be so great but that would also fall right in line with the dude looking types he seems to attract and like.
I guess I'm the only one who finds this all fascinating, at least at the BxBanter. Long live page six!!!
If they do head for divorce, I think the first few things that will start to come out will be something about him loathing Jeter, second will probably have something to do with roids or some swingers club he visits. Geez...even Peter Cook's personal and intimate relationship with his computah are coming out. ARod is going to lose more than money here, at least me thinks...
BTW, lest no anyone think I'm judging here....I'm DEFINITELY not one to judge.
8 of course it is ... and it will SUCK. hollywood is dumber than 10 lasordas. you don't remake the good movies. you remake the movies that had good ideas that didn't quite work or that went off the track somewhere. you look at them with hindsight and you fix the shit that didn't click. instead they take an iconic movie that is perfect as it is (for what it was), hire about 10 screenwriters to punch it up until it's as bland and inoffensive as everything else and grab some hotshot music video director with more ersatz syle than sense to piss all over everything else. oh, yeah and they cast john fucking travolta. like i said, dumber than 10 lasordas.
tony scott is the shea hillenbrand (early career) of directors. on first glance the production seems good, then you look closer and realize he sucks. or maybe he's the marcus giles of directors toiling in mediocrity next to a more famous (and better) brother ...
gah!
Agreed, Alex.
Fabulous and pitch-perfect film.
Captures the apocalypticism of the 1970s, the story's a thrusting romp, the actors all display what character acting can be at its best.
Speaking of which, maybe the only thing wrong with it is that Gene Hackman's not in it.
Oh my God.
There's a special place in hell for people who do gratuitous remakes, and an even specialier place for those who don't have the good sense to recognize that New York cannot be substituted in a movie that is quintessentially about New York.
Hang the bastards.
Cassavetes, I think.
Yup .... although I mis-stated the Vancouver part .... it was Toronto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taking_of_Pelham_One_Two_Three_(1998_film)
"What the hell did they expect for 35 cents, that they were going to live forever?"
That was perfect.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111422/
One of the hijackers was played by Earl Hindman, who was a longtime New York stage actor best known (or partially known) to the world as Tim Allen's foil/guru Wilson on Home Improvement.
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