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in-depth audio comparison of the two 'Pelham' pictures, as well as a review of 'Food, Inc.'in-depth audio comparison of the two 'Pelham' pictures, as well as a review... more
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Dreading having to watch the remake/reboot/re-imagining of ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’ I’ve decided to watch the original to fortify myself –
please join me Dear Current Viewers by clicking the link to see the whole film via Fancast - New York in all its seedy 70’s glory – and check out that kick-ass theme music! Da dum dum dum.Dreading having to watch the remake/reboot/re-imagining of ‘The Taking of Pelham... more
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The Good Dr. Higgins is insistent that we review the reboot of ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’, ‘The Taking of Pelham 123′ for this week’s show.
Dear Listeners – this prospect fills me with dread.
A film obviously made by feeding ‘Swordfish’ and ‘Inside Man’ into Microsoft’s new search engine ‘Bing’ with a script polish by ‘Wolfram Alpha’ via ‘Scriptbot’, ‘The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3′, (why switch the words into numerals? why why why?), is the kind of movie that, like Transformers, I doubt I could make it more than 15 minutes into.
And yet.
The Good Dr. is, as I said, insistent.
So this post is a plea. Dr. Higgins – the redoubtable Karina Longworth has already reviewed ‘The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3′ on her Spoutblog.
Can’t we say that’s good enough?
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(Re: the image above, ‘Les Pirates Du Metro’? = best film title, ever)The Good Dr. Higgins is insistent that we review the reboot of ‘The Taking of... more
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Record a webcam review for The Taking of Pelham 123, Moon or Imagine That below and you might end up on The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Thursday night (10:30 pm).
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Released three months apart, Death Wish and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three are twinned images of the subway as a microcosm of 1974 New York City: Death Wish the urban hell variant, Pelham a dystopian playground. Both focus on people with guns infesting the transport system and start a general acceptance of the city being as violent and out-of-control as could be. (The next year, the city almost had to declare bankruptcy, leading to the infamous Ford to City: Drop Dead Daily News headline, which pretty much sums up the overall tenor.) Both have lasted far past their initial sell-by dates as basic programmers. On the occasion of Tony Scott's ill-advised remake of Pelham, it's worth thinking about the ways the films complement each other.Released three months apart, Death Wish and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three are... more
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A high-powered cast that boasts the likes of Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro and Luis Guzman gets seriously upstaged in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3."
From the moment Travolta — sporting a Fu Manchu, prison tats and a don’t-mess-with-me sneer — struts down a crowded midtown street in the frenetic, stylized opening scene, there’s no mistaking who the real star of the movie is:
New York City.
When it comes to capturing the grit, grime, corruption and crime of the city in the bad old ’70s, few films did it better than the original "Pelham," the 1974 cult classic about a gang of heavily armed hoods who hijack a subway car full of passengers for a $1 million ransom. (The movie, in fact, was chosen in a poll of Daily News readers as their all-time favorite New York film.)
Which is why director Tony Scott and the producers of this latest "Pelham," opening Friday, went to great lengths to make the contemporary version as Big Apple-authentic as possible.
Not only did Scott shoot most of the film on actual locations rather than soundstages, especially the subway scenes, he purposely cast a handful of native New York actors as characters on both sides of the law — including a Bronx-bred man with a long rap sheet to play one of the four criminals.
"The original had an iconic New York sensibility," says Scott, who began principal photography in early 2008.
"But this is a different version, and New York is actually a strong character in this. From the very first scene, I wanted to represent the city as the third star of the movie, and not only show the noise and anxiety and the dangerousness of it, but how [Travolta’s character] plots his revenge and humiliation of the city that took him down."
Like the ’74 version, "Pelham" is based on the 1973 novel by John Godey. The original, starring Walter Matthau as a transit cop engaged in a battle of wits with the head hijacker (Robert Shaw), is a tense and often funny thrill ride that intertwines cops, criminals, politicians, the media and a cross section of stock New York characters who are taken hostage: a hapless hooker, a hippie, an old Jewish man, a Puerto Rican woman and a militant black guy among them.
In the new film, Denzel Washington plays the good guy (he’s a train dispatcher) against Travolta’s villain. Gandolfini, who grew up in New Jersey and lives in the city, plays the mayor. New York-based actors Luis Guzman and John Turturro portray a hijacker and the hostage negotiator, respectively.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/06/07/2009-06-07_behind_the_scenes_of_the_taking_of_pelham_1_2_3.html#ixzz0HkBxCePm&CA high-powered cast that boasts the likes of Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James... more
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It’s summer, so five kinds of movies will soon arrive: the rare ones that justify the existence of the Hollywood machine; the ones that I shouldn’t like but probably will; the ones that could turn out terrible or fine; the ones that are completely unpredictable; and the ones you couldn’t pay me to see. Given that hardly anyone gets paid to see movies these days, that category should perhaps be retired. But for what it’s worth, here’s my matrix of viewing expectations for June.It’s summer, so five kinds of movies will soon arrive: the rare ones that... more
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Clinging to the face of Mount Rushmore, the sneeze that trapped a villain, the slaughtered Wild Bunch. Does everyone agree or disagree with these?Clinging to the face of Mount Rushmore, the sneeze that trapped a villain, the... more
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