On Mon, 9 Oct 2000
billha@ionet.net wrote:
> Looks like no one is actually going to see the new
"Get Carter," so
> I'll quote from a review from today's Dallas Morning
News. The headline is
> "Stallone slums it in 'Carter,'" and the film is
immediately compared to Mel
> Gibson's Payback as another film based on a old
"seedy crime yarn" that will
> make money. However, the protagonist comes to a
different end than in the
> original (oops, spoiler). The writer (Chris Vognar)
observes, "Suffice it to
> say that nihilistic climaxes just don't play well in
this brand new century."
> Michael Caine has a cameo in this film.
The original is a great film, something the big studios just
couldn't do nowadays: a crime film that really requires
careful watching. The narrative is elliptical, as is proper
for hardboiled fiction, and there are no exciting climaxes
which they now depend on. I just don't want to see the
original film to be ruined.
Juri
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