The Firm remake (Sorry if fixtures)

[Lenny Rider]

Had some father/son time the other night and watched a film with my 15 year old he had been raving about, The Firm, I'm no Barry Norman but I thought it was pile of shit and an insult to the original.

Looking on wikipedia I see its box office take was under a million quid, so the general public made it a turkey as well.

 

[astevens76]

I've got both the remake and the original on DVD. Hadn't heard huge amounts about it until the remake came out, but I prefer the original. The remake is quality, but the general approach of the original is class IMO. Although the postbox tracksuit in the new version is incredible....

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I really don't understand the point of remakes - if you're in the film business and can't come up with a new story, then you're in the wrong business. It's lazy.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I started watching it at least twice on Sky, but haven't seen the ending yet. Not great.

On the remakes thing, if you can bring something new/better, or say give it to a bigger audience in another language while staying true to the original, I can see the point - it's just that that doesn't happen very often. Classics should also be avoided. I mean, The Omen. Leave it alone, FFS.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Having said that Tooting did you find Oceans 11 with Pitt and Clooney was far better than the Rat Pack original?

 

[Gazwag]

I watched it on anytime and thought it was pretty crap.

The only thing that impressed me was you wouldn't have known it wasn't filmed in the early 80's.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I started watching it at least twice on Sky, but haven't seen the ending yet. Not great.

On the remakes thing, if you can bring something new/better, or say give it to a bigger audience in another language while staying true to the original, I can see the point - it's just that that doesn't happen very often. Classics should also be avoided. I mean, The Omen. Leave it alone, FFS.

Ok, another language - I'll give you that, but that is a little different.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Having said that Tooting did you find Oceans 11 with Pitt and Clooney was far better than the Rat Pack original?

Probably better, but also different, and more relevant for a different generation.

 

[The Spanish]

the difference was this one was just a humourless fashion parade and a young lads who missed the 80s fantasy with silly made up slang.

the original was funny as f*** (often inadvertantly) featuring great british actors such as benny from grange hill, phil mitchell, mickey pearce and the landlord from men behaving badly. a work of genius.

we're going to europe to do the europeans. nothing in the new one comes anything close to that dialogue wise.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Was 'you dry lunch' a london thing?or made up for the film? i cant remember hearing that phrase down here.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Was 'you dry lunch' a london thing?or made up for the film? i cant remember hearing that phrase down here.

'Plate first' was another I'd not heard for years

 

[Acker79]

I've not seen the original, but I saw this one at the cinema. Not overly fond of it.

As to remakes, in general I don't have a problem with them, they can give a familiar story a new twist, bring to light forgotten or overlooked gems, bring a film to a new audience (weather a different generation, language, age group, etc).

I do, however, have a problem with bad remakes.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Gary Oldman is outstanding in the original as "Becks". Why would anyone think they could play this character any better is beyond me? The remake is a Nick Love film and he doesn't make a film without Danny "pawpa nawty" Dyer even he didn't sign up for this steaming pile of dog turd. He thought hanging out with aliens on BBC3 was a better idea.

 

[herecomesaregular]

welllllll, i LIKED the remake but then i'm late 30s and all the 80s references made me laugh. thought it was an excellent comedy.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Personally I thought Tom Cruise was rather wooden, but Gene Hackman and Ed Harris at least livened it up a bit.

 

[Sir Royston thorne]

I'm with you, Ian... spookily enough the remade series of Reggie Perrin has just started.. sigh

 

[Albion Robster]

Shocking Football Fan film. Very poor ending...could see it happening a mile off.
Top points for the clothing waldrobe though!

Was one scene filmed on Littlehampton seafront??

 

[Rambo]

Shocking Football Fan film. Very poor ending...could see it happening a mile off.
Top points for the clothing waldrobe though!

Was one scene filmed on Littlehampton seafront??

Yes it was. It's still shite though.

 

[Beach Hut]

This is quite a good film so far, didn't realise how bad my hair was then

 

[Beach Hut]

Not bad at all, pretty certain the final scene with the stabbing was filmed at the old Kings Cross Thameslink station now closed although you can access out of it onto the street from the Victoria line.