I'm a hardcore McQueen fan, and I've personally made it a vow never to watch the remake, because simply NO ONE can play McQueen like McQueen can, are there any changes to the remake that were made from the original?
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Give in. See it. Walter Hill, the original screenwriter, directed it. He's the closest director we have to Peckinpah today. It's not nearly as good but it's not bad either. Michael Madsen, James Woods and Jennifer Tilly were inspired casting choices.
Give it a shot.
Thanks, but no. The Getaway is my favorite McQueen film. Thanks, though, you make a good case for it.
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The remake IS NOT directed by Walter Hill!!! That could have been a remake worth watching, but Roger Donaldson's remake of The Getaway has to be one of the worst remakes ever! The only differens from the original is that you get to know why Doc McCoy is in the slammer in the beginning. But really, who cares?
A completly pointless remake!!!
But Roger Donaldson is not always that bad as a director. I really liked his version of the Bounty!
The remake with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger was just a terrible name and put this classic crime film in vain. McQueen is the master of cool and though Baldwin is a good actor, he won't ever be able to have the screen presence and stardom of Steve McQueen, who was perhaps the biggest action star of the 1960s and 1970s.
Peter Jackson is overrated.
The Matrix is overrated.
I love this movie and avoided the remake for a long time out of respect. I would agree with the concensus regarding the remake. It's nowhere near as god as the original, but Michael Madsen, James Woods, and Jennifer Tilly are quite effective as Rudy, Benyon, and Fran. Baldwin and Basinger (married at the time)have never figured out that they did not have the same chemistry onscreen that they had off.
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