Things that some people do which I don't like and intend to bang on about until Hell freezes over.

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

In Heat, Al Pacino's character is called Vincent Hanna, and the character shares this name with an Irish political commentator. It explains why when you search on Google for Vincent Hanna you get this:

 

[User169]

Hmmm... I'm not sure I'd agree with you there. LA Takedown is basically his blueprint for Heat, which I reckon is superior. There can't be many directors who have remade their own films.

I think I prefer LA Takedown for the more stylized look and the fuzzier plot. All this gets tightened up in Heat, but a three hour Pacino/De Niro shoutathon isn't really my thing.

I'm sure there are more director remakes (I guess largely furrin language films remade for Hollywood), but the only one I can recall off the top of my head is the Vanishing which was given a completely different (easier on the audience) ending in the Hollywood version.

 

[AndyRM]

I think I prefer LA Takedown for the more stylized look and the fuzzier plot. All this gets tightened up in Heat, but a three hour Pacino/De Niro shoutathon isn't really my thing.

I'm sure there are more director remakes (I guess largely furrin language films remade for Hollywood), but the only one I can recall off the top of my head is the Vanishing which was given a completely different (easier on the audience) ending in the Hollywood version.

Fair shout on the look of LA Takedown. I still think it's a good film, but prefer Heat. Have you seen Robbery Homicide Division? It's the series Mann wanted to originally make.

You're not wrong on the johnny foreigner remakes. Pang Bros. turned Bangkok Dangerous into an English disaster and Takashi Shimizu did the same with Ju:On. I found a few others which I've not seen, but unsurprisingly it's not that common a practise.

 

[John the Monkey]

Just think, before the internet, we had to yell all this stuff at the uncaring skies, shaking our fists impotently.

Or write in to the Telegraph. One of those.

 

[User169]

Fair shout on the look of LA Takedown. I still think it's a good film, but prefer Heat. Have you seen Robbery Homicide Division? It's the series Mann wanted to originally make.

You're not wrong on the johnny foreigner remakes. Pang Bros. turned Bangkok Dangerous into an English disaster and Takashi Shimizu did the same with Ju:On. I found a few others which I've not seen, but unsurprisingly it's not that common a practise.

For some reason, I didn't think Mann ever made the series! Will certainly have to hunt that out.

 

[AndyRM]

For some reason, I didn't think Mann ever made the series! Will certainly have to hunt that out.

For some reason, a guy called Barry Schindel is credited as the creator, but Mann was executive producer and it's got his style and direction all over it.

Good luck finding it, I chanced across it on TV a couple of years ago. It's very good and could have gone on to great things, but Sizemore got busted for drugs and the game was up.

 

[Leaway2]

People who turn a rant thread into a film crit thread.
People who cycle more miles than me in the new year so that I get constant red down arrow on my ticker.

 

[AndyRM]

People who turn a rant thread into a film crit thread.
People who cycle more miles than me in the new year so that I get constant red down arrow on my ticker.

People who don't like random sidelines in threads, especially when they are both interesting and informative.

 

[Tim Hall]

Nobbers.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I am so pleased to find that i annoy you in at least one way.

You fly tip?

 

[Brandane]

People who think or do ANYTHING differently from the way I do. You're all nobbers.

 

[AndyRM]

People who think or do ANYTHING differently from the way I do. You're all nobbers.

Reported for abuse. Nobber.

 

[luckyfox]

 

[tyred]

People that eat Mayonaise

 

[shouldbeinbed]

People who put long lists and posts on Cyclechat when I usually read it on a mobile phone size screen