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Modern Day Get Carter

posted 20 years ago by mifune1
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Anyone else think Hodges drew from his own inspiration for Get Carter to make I'll Sleep.. The stories are so similar.

[–] ninfilms 20 years ago

I can see your point. I also noticed he used other inspirations from his other films. When Ken Stott characters get an Irish hitman to kill Will Graham. This seems to also had referenced from Prayer For The Dying when Alan Bates gangster Jack Meehan gets IRA terrorist Mickey Rourke to kill another gangster.

[–] gattocinese 19 years ago

Maybe I'm missing the artsy subtleties. But both movies were bad. The movies are fraternal twins. Michael Caine, wonderful actor that he is, was horrible in Carter. Clive was wasted here.

And the English thugs were annoying as all hell. Were they the same thugs in both films? I know the actors were differnt - fraternal twins. Are English thugs really like that? They seem like 60 IQ morons with nothing interesting about them. They're overweight with bad haircuts and bad clothes. They're all fist, fat and firearms.

[–] ElGaboGringo 18 years ago

YES! Get Carter HAD to be in the head of whoever wrote I'll Sleep When I'm dead...

I just watched Get Carter for the first time and about halfway through it hit me. There's no way it's a coincidence:

- Bad brother returns back home for mysterious "suicide" of good brother
- people in his hometown feel he abandoned the brother
- he investigates
- local gangsters tell him he needs to leave
- he finds the killer, roughs up some bad guys in the process
- another tough is sent after him to kill him
- it ends on a rocky beach

Absolutely a remake.

I think both are good films... I'm suprised there are so many negative comments. get carter's detached cinematography may be hard for modern filmwatchers that are used to having scenes spoonfed to them and key names and plot developments aren't repeated 5 times like in Bad BoyZ II so some might have trouble keeping up. Still they are both good movies, each in their own right, even if so similar.