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I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture.
"Remake of the classic film about a gang of thieves who create the biggest traffic jam in LA history in order to pull off a huge gold heist, using Mini Coopers to escape via sidewalks."
PS - 'Camp' Freddie will now be known as 'Handsome Bob' and played by Jason Statham, I rest my case.
"Arthur, Coco, Rozzer, 'Handsome' Bob we all know!" :nuts:
Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture.
Why? There is a slight possibility that it might be good.
why dont you wait and see it before you slag it off!
What's it going to be called?
Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture.
Shouldn't that be...
I trust all British citizens who have seen the original The Italian Job will boycott this remake. ?
Originally posted by carryonline
Why? There is a slight possibility that it might be good.
How slight? ( and you can use 15 decimal places in your result )
The American job? :dork:
Gary A
I thought it was the American Job.
Edit - no, IMDB has it down as The Italian Job.
I'll boycott this if you boycott The Wicker Man remake. :oh-hum:
... because they plan the robbery in Italy, IIRC.
Originally posted by Boink!
... because they plan the robbery in Italy, IIRC. :lol:
They plan it in a Italian Resturant in L.A.? :nuts:
Its definitely the Italian Job, although theres no reason to keep that title except to cash in on the original.
Call me cynical but doesnt this film just look like a long advert for the new mini.
You can just see the studio execs....
New Mini quite popular.(nice backhander from BMW)
Old script lying around involving the old mini.
Stick a couple of 'hip' stars in it and $$$$$$!!!
Sounds to me a more appropraite title would be The Hand....
Cos thats exactly what its going to be, sounds appalling.
Originally posted by Philipio
Call me cynical but doesnt this film just look like a long advert for the new mini.
There is probably at least a bit of truth in that. According to the documentary on the R2 Italian Job DVD, FIAT offered to supply all the cars the film makers needed for free if they used FIAT 500s instead of Minis
Well the remake's got a few things going for it.
A very good cast, a good director and it can't be any worse than the 'Get Carter' remake.
I love the original and its one of my favoutire films.
I'm also not above seeing it for what it is, a few good set scenes and a fantastic car chase.
If the new one maintains a sense of humour and has a great car chase then I may well go and see it.
I'll wait for the reviews.
Err I'm Irish and I want to boycott this....am I allowed or is this a Englanders only club :)
Paul.
BTW I don't like the sounds of this at all I mean The Italian Job is one of my all time favourites.
How can they call it The Italian Job if it's set in LA? Are the criminals Italians?
Originally posted by Morpheus2000
How can they call it The Italian Job if it's set in LA? Are the criminals Italians?
Mafia? Gold from italy?
I just cant see them getting the humour right in a remake of this. They`ll either play it straight or just make it plain silly (both of which would destroy it) :(
Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture
you can boycott it if you want
I am looking forward to seeing this...
I'm looking forward to it, never liked the original.
Oh dear, they can't just can't leave anything alone can they! :oh-hum:
Personally i think it's a disgrace that the studios can't come up with something new. It's just like the music industry, repackaged classics turned into pap for a quick buck.
I for one am not impressed and I wouldn't regard myself as a great fan of the original either. Doubt i'll bother with it and register my disgust with non-attendance.
Monkey Tennis anyone? :nuts:
By chance, I saw them filming this on Hollywood Boulevard when I was there on holiday last week, I saw the Mini's but didn't see any actors I recognised. (It's a shame that my one day in hollywood I see them shooting a film thay I have little interest in seeing, Ah well).
According to Evening Standard METRO Life:
"Purists beware: the remake of The Italian Job not only commits the grievous heresies of substituting Mark Wahlberg for Michael caine and the streets of Los Angeles for the original setting of Turin (while weirdly keeping the original title), it seems the film's famous Mini Coopers are to be augmented with bicycles.
Wahlberg is shooting the film in LA along side Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Edward Norton and 'token Brit' Jason Stratham. Although the new movie keeps the red-white-&-blue car chase through streets and subways, it dispenses with most of the original plot. Instead Whahlberg's crooked Charlie Croker tries to retrieve a carload of gold stolen by ex-partner (Norton), with the help of safecracker (theron). Blah, etc...
Very poor, Vic. Very poor.
oh deary me!
shouldn't be allowed....
You're only supposed to watch the bloody original... :oh-hum:
LOL at Mark! :lol:
Bet they ruin the ending...
Originally posted by Mark
You're only supposed to watch the bloody original... :oh-hum:
:lol:
how about writing a letter to our respective MPs to bring this up in parliment, bloody yanks ruining our art!
Cash in on the original my bottom - the original died at the US box office.
Which is exactly what should have happened to it over here. I hate that film with an absolute passion.
So I'm looking forward to a beefed up car chase, although The Bourne Identity rather nailed the mini chase recently, so who knows.
I'll only boycott it if there's Michael Caine cameo - I don't think I've EVER enjoyed any aspect of his career :)
Originally posted by stephen
What's it going to be called?
considering it'll probably be poo how about
The Italian Jobby:nuts: :nuts:
Remakes if they are good, they complement the original, if they are not, they make the original look even better. Either way, once a film is made, can't take anything away from it, if its good or bad, they remain like that, one film does not destroy the other.
Originally posted by SeanValen
Remakes if they are good, they complement the original, if they are not, they make the original look even better. Either way, once a film is made, can't take anything away from it, if its good or bad, they remain like that, one film does not destroy the other.
Try telling that to someone who's only watched McTiernan's 'Rollerball' - you think they're gonna watch the original? :eek:
:nuts:
Originally posted by Erb
Try telling that to someone who's only watched McTiernan's 'Rollerball' - you think they're gonna watch the original? :eek:
:nuts:
lol
whats McTiernan up to next? i expect he will return for die hard 4
Originally posted by nashie
lol
whats McTiernan up to next? i expect he will return for die hard 4
yep... :)
McTiernan's next is a thriller with Travalota and Samual L Jackson.
I can't remember it's name but advance word is very very good.
Originally posted by Boink!
According to Evening Standard METRO Life:
"Purists beware: the remake of The Italian Job not only commits the grievous heresies of substituting Mark Wahlberg for Michael caine and the streets of Los Angeles for the original setting of Turin (while weirdly keeping the original title), it seems the film's famous Mini Coopers are to be augmented with bicycles.
Wahlberg is shooting the film in LA along side Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Edward Norton and 'token Brit' Jason Stratham. Although the new movie keeps the red-white-&-blue car chase through streets and subways, it dispenses with most of the original plot. Instead Whahlberg's crooked Charlie Croker tries to retrieve a carload of gold stolen by ex-partner (Norton), with the help of safecracker (theron). Blah, etc...
So it's not really a remake then, more a remagination.
Originally posted by Cornelius
So it's not really a remake then, more a remagination.
I so hate that word "remagination" :brickwall
It just means "We're going to rip all the good bits out of the film and chuck in the usual Hollywood pap to fill in the gaps between all the explosions and slow motion [A-Team standard] carnage."
Pah.
:lol: Even the actors starring in this POS don’t want to make it:
IMDB:
Fight Club star Edward Norton is furious contractual obligations have forced him to star in a re-make of The Italian Job - a project he reportedly wants nothing to do with. Norton has apparently been making it clear on the set of the update of the classic British sixties movie that he is only appearing in the movie because he would be taken to court by film studio Paramount if he refused to do the film. The star signed a three-movie deal with Paramount early in his career but has only made one film for them, 1996's Primal Fear - but has been forced to accept this project after rejecting all offers for several years. Norton even returned a gift car the studio sent him on the first day of shooting of the mad-cap crime caper. He sent back the brand new Mini Cooper to Paramount's co-president of production with a note attached saying, "Why don't you give this to someone you like - or someone who likes you?"
:lol:
:( :( an American remake will probably suck :( as do most remakes, if they are going to remake it I think they should at least make it with a British cast, I've heard that Michael Caine has been asked to appear in the film, but has refused! me thinks it will just be a big money spinner/advert for BMW and their Mini, as with many other films these days like the new Bond film there is too much advertising :nono:
Originally posted by jonathan.e
:lol: Even the actors starring in this POS don’t want to make it:
IMDB:
Fight Club star Edward Norton is furious contractual obligations have forced him to star in a re-make of The Italian Job - a project he reportedly wants nothing to do with. Norton has apparently been making it clear on the set of the update of the classic British sixties movie that he is only appearing in the movie because he would be taken to court by film studio Paramount if he refused to do the film. The star signed a three-movie deal with Paramount early in his career but has only made one film for them, 1996's Primal Fear - but has been forced to accept this project after rejecting all offers for several years. Norton even returned a gift car the studio sent him on the first day of shooting of the mad-cap crime caper. He sent back the brand new Mini Cooper to Paramount's co-president of production with a note attached saying, "Why don't you give this to someone you like - or someone who likes you?"
Hmm, this is bad. :eek:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/philipi0/hpbimg/theitalianjob_lg_01.jpg
How come their using the old style minis???
Because the Mini is now selling more cars in the states than it ever has in its entire history apparantly.
Maybe it will be so bad that even American audiences will say they prefer the original? (Dream on!)
Right lads, it looks like we are going to have to make sure it gets a bad showing on IMDb ... 30,000 votes of "1" should do it, come on lads.
(It's best if you are a 'regular' voter on IMDb which I guess means 20 or so other films voted for, so you might as start voting for other films right now.)
they're using the one and only 'proper' Mini thankyouverymuch! Not that crappy BMW non-Mini thing that they've 'produced'....
Old skool Mini's rule!
I might just have to check it out if they've avoided the German crap!
You have to larf:
IMDB: Hollywood hunk Mark Wahlberg has declared his upcoming movie The Italian Job the best film he's ever made. Wahlberg says the high-speed heist flick, which also stars Charlize Theron and Edward Norton, far outstrips any of his other flicks, including Planet Of The Apes and Rock Star. He explains, "It just works on every level. First of all, it's surrounded by the best young actors in the business and they all brought their own personalities to the roles. We made a character-driven piece with well-rounded characters. There's no computer-generated effects in this movie. It's kind of back to the basics, but it works as a whole. It has the best stunt sequences and action sequences I've ever seen."
Does this sound like the same movie Ed Norton has disowned and made only because he was forced to?
Nicely illustrates the difference between Ed Norton and Marky Mark then doesn't it! :D
Originally posted by mjb1975
they're using the one and only 'proper' Mini thankyouverymuch! Not that crappy BMW non-Mini thing that they've 'produced'....
Old skool Mini's rule!
I might just have to check it out if they've avoided the German crap!
Have you test driven the new Mini Cooper and Cooper S?
Oh, the chase scenes feature the cool new Mini, not the out of date one ;)
Think how bad it could've been. When first mooted they were going to use the new Beetle.
If Ed Norton is so principled, why didn't he refuse to appear in Red Dragon?
Even if anyone doubted that this film was gonna be cr*p, just take a look at the trailer. The makers have kindly given the whole 'new' plot away, and shown what looks like the 'best' of the action..... saves even the curious from donating their money to this abomination.:oh-hum:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/the_italian_job/
I saw the trailer today and to be fair, it looks far enough away from the original to be accepted on its own merits (or lack of). They seem to have just taken the concept of a heist with minis and just ignored everything else. If anything it looks much more like a knock-off of Gone In 60 Seconds, Ocean's Eleven and Edward Norton's own film The Score than a remake of the Michael Caine original. The only "Italian" connection seems to be the raid gone wrong at the beginning. Maybe they should have gone the whole hog, lost the title and made the cars Beetles or something and no one would have noticed!
Originally posted by Confucius
If Ed Norton is so principled, why didn't he refuse to appear in Red Dragon?
IIRC it was so he could get '25th Hour' made.
Marky Mark was on Letterman this week in the states, and for a 15-odd minute interview, Letterman asked him 1 question about the film and they showed a short clip that looked very similar to the Pacino/De niro scene in Heat.
Anyway, the answer to the question went along the lines of Mark saying that even though he's been in other remakes, this film is a re-working of the original!!!
Mark Wahlberg is a very poor actor and I think he has proven that he can't carry a film with Planet of the Apes and RockStar. The guy's just... blank! Like an arthritic shotputter... he has no range (boom! boom!) which was why he worked well in Boogie Nights... kind of like Arnie in The Terminator... perfect for that particular role but I haven't seen any evidence that there's any real talent there. Mind you that didn't do Michael Caine any harm:D
I obviously haven't seen the Italian Job yet, nor his other recent "reworking" The Truth About Charlie, and I can't say that I have a special regard for the original - but I'll be steering (oh, how we laughed) clear of this baby unless I can be persuaded otherwise when it comes out! Who's directing?
For my sins, I designed the cover for Marky Mark's Wildside single many years ago... that was a ***** copy too... I see a pattern developing :D
Originally posted by Tom Whitaker
I'll only boycott it if there's Michael Caine cameo - I don't think I've EVER enjoyed any aspect of his career :)
Not even dirty rotten scoundrels?
Well I just saw this and I must say Marky Mark is right, and it IS very funny, and not in a silly way at all, loads of fun moments and injokes, the chases rule, the music is great, and the cast is perfect.
Oh and Edward Norton looks really ****** in it, I think this whole endeavor has helped him become an even better actor, more convincing character.
So there... see my "review" in the review section and let the bashing begin... or continue...
"He called it Napster because I was napping..." :D
Good enough for me. If Lenny likes it, it has to be total crap. :lol:
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
Oh and Edward Norton looks really ****** in it.
I suppose that's one way of blotting out the experience... :D
"Remake of the classic film about a gang of thieves who create the biggest traffic jam in LA history in order to pull off a huge gold heist, using Mini Coopers to escape via sidewalks."
PS - 'Camp' Freddie will now be known as 'Handsome Bob' and played by Jason Statham, I rest my case.
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"Arthur, Coco, Rozzer, 'Handsome' Bob we all know!" :nuts:
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Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture.
Why? There is a slight possibility that it might be good.
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why dont you wait and see it before you slag it off!
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What's it going to be called?
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Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture.
Shouldn't that be...
I trust all British citizens who have seen the original The Italian Job will boycott this remake. ?
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Originally posted by carryonline
Why? There is a slight possibility that it might be good.
How slight? ( and you can use 15 decimal places in your result )
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The American job? :dork:
Gary A
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I thought it was the American Job.
Edit - no, IMDB has it down as The Italian Job.
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I'll boycott this if you boycott The Wicker Man remake. :oh-hum:
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... because they plan the robbery in Italy, IIRC.
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Originally posted by Boink!
... because they plan the robbery in Italy, IIRC. :lol:
They plan it in a Italian Resturant in L.A.? :nuts:
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Its definitely the Italian Job, although theres no reason to keep that title except to cash in on the original.
Call me cynical but doesnt this film just look like a long advert for the new mini.
You can just see the studio execs....
New Mini quite popular.(nice backhander from BMW)
Old script lying around involving the old mini.
Stick a couple of 'hip' stars in it and $$$$$$!!!
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Sounds to me a more appropraite title would be The Hand....
Cos thats exactly what its going to be, sounds appalling.
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Originally posted by Philipio
Call me cynical but doesnt this film just look like a long advert for the new mini.
There is probably at least a bit of truth in that. According to the documentary on the R2 Italian Job DVD, FIAT offered to supply all the cars the film makers needed for free if they used FIAT 500s instead of Minis
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Well the remake's got a few things going for it.
A very good cast, a good director and it can't be any worse than the 'Get Carter' remake.
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I love the original and its one of my favoutire films.
I'm also not above seeing it for what it is, a few good set scenes and a fantastic car chase.
If the new one maintains a sense of humour and has a great car chase then I may well go and see it.
I'll wait for the reviews.
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Err I'm Irish and I want to boycott this....am I allowed or is this a Englanders only club :)
Paul.
BTW I don't like the sounds of this at all I mean The Italian Job is one of my all time favourites.
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How can they call it The Italian Job if it's set in LA? Are the criminals Italians?
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Originally posted by Morpheus2000
How can they call it The Italian Job if it's set in LA? Are the criminals Italians?
Mafia? Gold from italy?
I just cant see them getting the humour right in a remake of this. They`ll either play it straight or just make it plain silly (both of which would destroy it) :(
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Originally posted by Philipio
I trust all British citizens will boycott this motion picture
you can boycott it if you want
I am looking forward to seeing this...
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I'm looking forward to it, never liked the original.
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Oh dear, they can't just can't leave anything alone can they! :oh-hum:
Personally i think it's a disgrace that the studios can't come up with something new. It's just like the music industry, repackaged classics turned into pap for a quick buck.
I for one am not impressed and I wouldn't regard myself as a great fan of the original either. Doubt i'll bother with it and register my disgust with non-attendance.
Monkey Tennis anyone? :nuts:
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By chance, I saw them filming this on Hollywood Boulevard when I was there on holiday last week, I saw the Mini's but didn't see any actors I recognised. (It's a shame that my one day in hollywood I see them shooting a film thay I have little interest in seeing, Ah well).
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According to Evening Standard METRO Life:
"Purists beware: the remake of The Italian Job not only commits the grievous heresies of substituting Mark Wahlberg for Michael caine and the streets of Los Angeles for the original setting of Turin (while weirdly keeping the original title), it seems the film's famous Mini Coopers are to be augmented with bicycles.
Wahlberg is shooting the film in LA along side Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Edward Norton and 'token Brit' Jason Stratham. Although the new movie keeps the red-white-&-blue car chase through streets and subways, it dispenses with most of the original plot. Instead Whahlberg's crooked Charlie Croker tries to retrieve a carload of gold stolen by ex-partner (Norton), with the help of safecracker (theron). Blah, etc...
Very poor, Vic. Very poor.
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oh deary me!
shouldn't be allowed....
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You're only supposed to watch the bloody original... :oh-hum:
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LOL at Mark! :lol:
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Bet they ruin the ending...
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Originally posted by Mark
You're only supposed to watch the bloody original... :oh-hum:
:lol:
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how about writing a letter to our respective MPs to bring this up in parliment, bloody yanks ruining our art!
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Cash in on the original my bottom - the original died at the US box office.
Which is exactly what should have happened to it over here. I hate that film with an absolute passion.
So I'm looking forward to a beefed up car chase, although The Bourne Identity rather nailed the mini chase recently, so who knows.
I'll only boycott it if there's Michael Caine cameo - I don't think I've EVER enjoyed any aspect of his career :)
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Originally posted by stephen
What's it going to be called?
considering it'll probably be poo how about
The Italian Jobby:nuts: :nuts:
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Remakes if they are good, they complement the original, if they are not, they make the original look even better. Either way, once a film is made, can't take anything away from it, if its good or bad, they remain like that, one film does not destroy the other.
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Originally posted by SeanValen
Remakes if they are good, they complement the original, if they are not, they make the original look even better. Either way, once a film is made, can't take anything away from it, if its good or bad, they remain like that, one film does not destroy the other.
Try telling that to someone who's only watched McTiernan's 'Rollerball' - you think they're gonna watch the original? :eek:
:nuts:
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Originally posted by Erb
Try telling that to someone who's only watched McTiernan's 'Rollerball' - you think they're gonna watch the original? :eek:
:nuts:
lol
whats McTiernan up to next? i expect he will return for die hard 4
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Originally posted by nashie
lol
whats McTiernan up to next? i expect he will return for die hard 4
yep... :)
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McTiernan's next is a thriller with Travalota and Samual L Jackson.
I can't remember it's name but advance word is very very good.
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Originally posted by Boink!
According to Evening Standard METRO Life:
"Purists beware: the remake of The Italian Job not only commits the grievous heresies of substituting Mark Wahlberg for Michael caine and the streets of Los Angeles for the original setting of Turin (while weirdly keeping the original title), it seems the film's famous Mini Coopers are to be augmented with bicycles.
Wahlberg is shooting the film in LA along side Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Edward Norton and 'token Brit' Jason Stratham. Although the new movie keeps the red-white-&-blue car chase through streets and subways, it dispenses with most of the original plot. Instead Whahlberg's crooked Charlie Croker tries to retrieve a carload of gold stolen by ex-partner (Norton), with the help of safecracker (theron). Blah, etc...
So it's not really a remake then, more a remagination.
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Originally posted by Cornelius
So it's not really a remake then, more a remagination.
I so hate that word "remagination" :brickwall
It just means "We're going to rip all the good bits out of the film and chuck in the usual Hollywood pap to fill in the gaps between all the explosions and slow motion [A-Team standard] carnage."
Pah.
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:lol: Even the actors starring in this POS don’t want to make it:
IMDB:
Fight Club star Edward Norton is furious contractual obligations have forced him to star in a re-make of The Italian Job - a project he reportedly wants nothing to do with. Norton has apparently been making it clear on the set of the update of the classic British sixties movie that he is only appearing in the movie because he would be taken to court by film studio Paramount if he refused to do the film. The star signed a three-movie deal with Paramount early in his career but has only made one film for them, 1996's Primal Fear - but has been forced to accept this project after rejecting all offers for several years. Norton even returned a gift car the studio sent him on the first day of shooting of the mad-cap crime caper. He sent back the brand new Mini Cooper to Paramount's co-president of production with a note attached saying, "Why don't you give this to someone you like - or someone who likes you?"
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:lol:
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:( :( an American remake will probably suck :( as do most remakes, if they are going to remake it I think they should at least make it with a British cast, I've heard that Michael Caine has been asked to appear in the film, but has refused! me thinks it will just be a big money spinner/advert for BMW and their Mini, as with many other films these days like the new Bond film there is too much advertising :nono:
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Originally posted by jonathan.e
:lol: Even the actors starring in this POS don’t want to make it:
IMDB:
Fight Club star Edward Norton is furious contractual obligations have forced him to star in a re-make of The Italian Job - a project he reportedly wants nothing to do with. Norton has apparently been making it clear on the set of the update of the classic British sixties movie that he is only appearing in the movie because he would be taken to court by film studio Paramount if he refused to do the film. The star signed a three-movie deal with Paramount early in his career but has only made one film for them, 1996's Primal Fear - but has been forced to accept this project after rejecting all offers for several years. Norton even returned a gift car the studio sent him on the first day of shooting of the mad-cap crime caper. He sent back the brand new Mini Cooper to Paramount's co-president of production with a note attached saying, "Why don't you give this to someone you like - or someone who likes you?"
Hmm, this is bad. :eek:
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/philipi0/hpbimg/theitalianjob_lg_01.jpg
How come their using the old style minis???
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Because the Mini is now selling more cars in the states than it ever has in its entire history apparantly.
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Maybe it will be so bad that even American audiences will say they prefer the original? (Dream on!)
Right lads, it looks like we are going to have to make sure it gets a bad showing on IMDb ... 30,000 votes of "1" should do it, come on lads.
(It's best if you are a 'regular' voter on IMDb which I guess means 20 or so other films voted for, so you might as start voting for other films right now.)
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they're using the one and only 'proper' Mini thankyouverymuch! Not that crappy BMW non-Mini thing that they've 'produced'....
Old skool Mini's rule!
I might just have to check it out if they've avoided the German crap!
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You have to larf:
IMDB: Hollywood hunk Mark Wahlberg has declared his upcoming movie The Italian Job the best film he's ever made. Wahlberg says the high-speed heist flick, which also stars Charlize Theron and Edward Norton, far outstrips any of his other flicks, including Planet Of The Apes and Rock Star. He explains, "It just works on every level. First of all, it's surrounded by the best young actors in the business and they all brought their own personalities to the roles. We made a character-driven piece with well-rounded characters. There's no computer-generated effects in this movie. It's kind of back to the basics, but it works as a whole. It has the best stunt sequences and action sequences I've ever seen."
Does this sound like the same movie Ed Norton has disowned and made only because he was forced to?
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Nicely illustrates the difference between Ed Norton and Marky Mark then doesn't it! :D
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Originally posted by mjb1975
they're using the one and only 'proper' Mini thankyouverymuch! Not that crappy BMW non-Mini thing that they've 'produced'....
Old skool Mini's rule!
I might just have to check it out if they've avoided the German crap!
Have you test driven the new Mini Cooper and Cooper S?
Oh, the chase scenes feature the cool new Mini, not the out of date one ;)
Think how bad it could've been. When first mooted they were going to use the new Beetle.
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If Ed Norton is so principled, why didn't he refuse to appear in Red Dragon?
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Even if anyone doubted that this film was gonna be cr*p, just take a look at the trailer. The makers have kindly given the whole 'new' plot away, and shown what looks like the 'best' of the action..... saves even the curious from donating their money to this abomination.:oh-hum:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/the_italian_job/
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I saw the trailer today and to be fair, it looks far enough away from the original to be accepted on its own merits (or lack of). They seem to have just taken the concept of a heist with minis and just ignored everything else. If anything it looks much more like a knock-off of Gone In 60 Seconds, Ocean's Eleven and Edward Norton's own film The Score than a remake of the Michael Caine original. The only "Italian" connection seems to be the raid gone wrong at the beginning. Maybe they should have gone the whole hog, lost the title and made the cars Beetles or something and no one would have noticed!
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Originally posted by Confucius
If Ed Norton is so principled, why didn't he refuse to appear in Red Dragon?
IIRC it was so he could get '25th Hour' made.
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Marky Mark was on Letterman this week in the states, and for a 15-odd minute interview, Letterman asked him 1 question about the film and they showed a short clip that looked very similar to the Pacino/De niro scene in Heat.
Anyway, the answer to the question went along the lines of Mark saying that even though he's been in other remakes, this film is a re-working of the original!!!
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Mark Wahlberg is a very poor actor and I think he has proven that he can't carry a film with Planet of the Apes and RockStar. The guy's just... blank! Like an arthritic shotputter... he has no range (boom! boom!) which was why he worked well in Boogie Nights... kind of like Arnie in The Terminator... perfect for that particular role but I haven't seen any evidence that there's any real talent there. Mind you that didn't do Michael Caine any harm:D
I obviously haven't seen the Italian Job yet, nor his other recent "reworking" The Truth About Charlie, and I can't say that I have a special regard for the original - but I'll be steering (oh, how we laughed) clear of this baby unless I can be persuaded otherwise when it comes out! Who's directing?
For my sins, I designed the cover for Marky Mark's Wildside single many years ago... that was a ***** copy too... I see a pattern developing :D
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Originally posted by Tom Whitaker
I'll only boycott it if there's Michael Caine cameo - I don't think I've EVER enjoyed any aspect of his career :)
Not even dirty rotten scoundrels?
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Well I just saw this and I must say Marky Mark is right, and it IS very funny, and not in a silly way at all, loads of fun moments and injokes, the chases rule, the music is great, and the cast is perfect.
Oh and Edward Norton looks really ****** in it, I think this whole endeavor has helped him become an even better actor, more convincing character.
So there... see my "review" in the review section and let the bashing begin... or continue...
"He called it Napster because I was napping..." :D
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Good enough for me. If Lenny likes it, it has to be total crap. :lol:
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Originally posted by Lenny Nero
Oh and Edward Norton looks really ****** in it.
I suppose that's one way of blotting out the experience... :D
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