The taking of Pelham 123

Watched it on Sky yesterday. Somehow I've never seen the original but in the remake the Ryder character seemed like a Die Hard villain who
pretenRAB to be committing crime A (the hijack) when he's really committing crime B (the financial scam)
. Is it the same in the original? It felt very derivative and Travolta completely failed to display the kind of cold-hearted control that makes a villain great.
 
Travolta was OTT and I agree that it seemed out of character for a wall streen big shot to turn into what he did. I guess you'd have to read/see a back story on that though.

I didn't think much of Washington. It's nothing that another actor could have pulled off.

I also liked the Mayor but was puzzled that the subplot of them figuring out that he was a wall street guy and getting his name just faded away. It didn't actually add anything to the outcome.


The internet was cut when they went into the tunnel but then the baddies put up their own signal so he could check the share prices so the laptop also got it's signal back.
That'll teach them to use encryption ;)


I've seen that in a few movies.
 
So they can get that voiceover man who does the trailers to say Denzel Washington and John Travolta in the same sentence.

Having those two "stars" in the film seems to be the only reason for the remake.
 
Original.....classic, one of the best American films or films for that matter of the 70's.

Remake?.....awful. Two hours of my life I wont get back. The dialogue was so bad I would have been embarrassed to put my name to it if I was the scriptwriter.
 
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