Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
7. The Taking of Pelham 123
The original: 1974
The remake: July 31, 2009
A cop (Denzel Washington) plays cat-and-mouse games with the mastermind (John Travolta) of a hijacked subway train. Unfortunately, this isn’t the sequel to Washington’s heist flick Inside Man. Instead, this is the second--and the most pointless--remake of the tense hostage drama that pitted Walter Matthau against Robert Shaw. A 1998 TV movie already overhauled The Taking of Pelham 123 from a technical standpoint. So this remake appears to be nothing more of an excuse for Washington to reteam with director Tony Scott for the fourth time. And for Travolta to get all villainous on us again. Will everything still come down to a single sneeze? Maybe, but given Scott’s bigger-and-louder-is-better mentality, it would probably the most violent sneeze ever heard onscreen.
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