The Hitcher remake

Post by **Bad cop** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:01 am

Just rented the remake of The Hitcher. It sucked. It had a few good moments. Sean Bean was pretty good as John Ryder but he will never be able to out do Rutger Hauer's original preformance thats for sure. The Film was slow and predictable and features some of the worst car crash editing since the crapy remake of Gone In 60 Seconds. It makes a mockery of the original and should not have been remade. What I can't stand is that people don't know the movie they just watched was a remake of a classic. I've heard they're remaking Near Dark ( Michael Bay who should stop remaking good films and making them worse) The Warriors( Is gonna be a punk rap piece of Sh#t) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Post by **Steve Gizzi** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:59 am

Next thing, they will try to remake Bonnie and Clyde. Nothing beats that death scene.

Post by **kwaka kid** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:42 pm

I almost bought that movie but got Smokin Aces instead.

Post by **Nightwalker** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:01 pm

Most remakes are crapy. Just like with gone in 60 seconds. The chase in the original is just so damn good.

I haven't seen the remake of the hitcher yet but I know the original one. You can actually feel the anxiety caused by how Rutger Hauer acts his role.

Post by **Justice** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:25 am

Remakes are here to stay. Expect a vanishing point remake (yes, a 2nd remake) when the next dodge challenger hits the streets. I doubt hollywood can restrain itself...

Post by **Biker** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:12 am

Face it folks remakes make sure fired cash from the curious who hope to see an improvement over the original film. I mean, the film has got to be a better version hasn't it? Techonlogy and filming techiniques have moved on so much since the 70's 80's & 90's. Sad thing is most times we walk away shaking our heads in disgust at the total hash job they made of it.

Hollywood aren't thinking outside the box anymore but are just adding to thier coffers by rehashing what's already been shown knowing we'd go and have a gander at it.

Perhaps they've had so many people present them with hairbrained ideas for films they prefer to stick with remakes, those being at least a good return on thier investment rather than a total flop. You can see it can't you: Eager young newbie director: This is what we're gonna do Mr Hollywood, we're going to shoot the peanuts cartoon strip with live actors. It's gonna be great!! Give us $90m and we'll shoot a trailer for you. (Hollywood hangs head in dispair) Man clutching new script for Fury Road walks in right after newbie walks out rejected. You can see why anything good might die before even reaching the starting blocks.

The (original) Hitcher was superb, it was the first film (Imo) that kept you off balence the whole time. You expected it to go this way and wham it took a left turn at the lights and left you flat-footed. Just when you thought you had a handle on it, blam it went the opposite direction and left you struggling to come to terms with the new bizarre direction. I mean the heroine isn't supposed to die is she? At least not like that! The bead guy's supposed to surrender and say "It's a fair cop guv'ner" Not lift his foot off the clutch.

I think a lot of that had to do with the sinister way Rutgar played the role. He just oozes "unstableness" if there's such a word. He's like the ultimate loose cannon but in a safe "lull you into a fall sense of security" way. Shame he never really got to shine but was consigned to B part films and roles. He'd have made a great bad guy in Mad Max

Biker

Post by **Justice** » Sat May 05, 2007 6:23 pm

He never lands the big leading roles yes, but we've seen him as recently as Sin City and Batman Begins.

And I agree he would have made a great mad max villain back in the day. The guy can come over like a very dangerous and capable man. Ya'll remember blade-runner?