The TAKING of a great 70's original and reproducing flashy Hollywood crap!
The thing with Tony Scott is that I rarely like the trailers for his movies, they very seldom do an awful lot for me but by the time it comes to the big dance and I pay my hard earned cash to see his flicks, I always find that I've had a good time with them. They entertain me. The simplicity of his setups and his ambitions to make good old fashioned genre efforts make for a watchable two hours. But having said all that, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 is different. It's different because I've seen with my own eyes how good this story can be. The original 1974 movie is a fabolous thriller from THE decade of thrillers. The great Robert Shaw plays one of the great smart and sly screen villains, who thinks he is better than simply a train robbing terroist. Like Alan Rickman in DIE HARD, he thinks because he talks with a middle-class accent he is better than the average crook but of course we know he's not. I watch the trailer for this Summer's remake and I don't wanna see John Travolta playing his stock bad guy we have seen so much of in the last ten years. I see Denzel Washington as a clumsy and overweight cop and that's the problem, I see Denzel Washington NOT someone like Walter Matttau who never looked like he could hold his own in a fight.