Donaldson's 'Getaway' is an example of remake really close to original without altering almost anything. It was shot primarily to boost the career of new happy couple Baldwin-Basinger at that time and offers not much but their hot love scene. The storyline sticks to the original all the way till the end, so if you saw the original there is absolutely no need to see the remake.
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Personally, I loved the original and saw this one after not having seen the original in years. I don't know that it made much difference. They are both great movies. Baldwin and Bassinger had already been together several years when this was made, if I remember correctly. Both worth seeing.
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No way man. Peckinpah's original is incredible, especially considering that it is a satire on the action genre. The remake on the other hand (though I didn't see all of it, I saw enough) is extremely lame, with about 1/0239484329574th the badassness the original has. And F%*K Baldwin and Bassinger, McQueen and McGraw are so much hotter.
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Yeah.I remember back in late 94 when my dad and me saw the remade version of "the getaway."Needless to say,we were both highly disappointed and decided to get a kick outta really doggin it out with our comparisons to the Mc Queen Original.We were both agreeing with one another that it was So Freakin Lame compared to the original.
No badasses,no henchmen with cowboy hats in a big convertible,and basically,no feeling to it whatsoever.Just a cheap tacky piece of garbage mess.
It was obviously,helplessly doomed right from the getgo!
Now here is someone I can talk one, it is rare that people are so right on Imdb. The remake was painfully, mindnumbingly clichéd, worst acting in the career of the whole cast (not that Baldwin or Basinger can act to start with, but that aside). It just dwells within the notion that action equalls entertainment. Shaming Peckinpah, how dare they?
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Sorry - I liked 'em both, but prefer the remake if I had to choose one over the other. Neither is a 'bad' choice though - both very solid films.
Just my $0.02.
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Donaldson did Thirteen Days too, which I thought was incredible.
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I THINK PECKINPAHS 1972 VERSION IS BETTER THAN DONALDSONS 1994 VERSION
shareI never saw this version, and I try to make it a point to avoid remakes, prequels and sequels. I did see DRAG ME TO HELL which is a remake of CURSE OF THE DEMON and which I thought was the funniest movie I'd seen in years.
The unfortunate thing about the original version is that the commentary track with Peckinpah, McQueen and McGraw is very short, but it's better than no commentary.
I did meet Stella Stevens last year, and she was a pleasure to talk to about THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE, Peckinpah and Strother Martin.
The remake is OK, not great. The action could have been better & I think it would have been better if there was more tension throughout the action scenes.
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And now somebody wants to remake STRAW DOGS! I read the book years ago and don't remember anything about it. Peckinpah had a very low opinion of it except for the siege, and the author refused to take responsibility for the movie. If you watch HOT FUZZ there are a couple of references to SD in it.
On a related note, I met Stella Stevens at an antigues and collectibles show a few years ago. She was fun to talk to and had fond memories of Strother Martin. She was also charitable toward Peckinpah. "He had his demons." "Cable Hogue" is one of the very few Peckinpah movies my wife has watched.
Well, which one was funny? Curse of the Demon or Drag me to Hell or both or either?
shareCURSE OF THE DEMON was a serious, straightforward film based on MR James classic short story CASTING THE RUNES which I haven't read in years. It has a great performance by British character actor Reginald Beckwith during the seance where he "channels" dead people. I can only remember seeing him in THUNDERBALL during the briefing session and A SHOT IN THE DARK at the nudist camp. He has a great face, but the average filmgoer might not know his name.
DRAG ME TO HELL takes some of the basic plot idea from COTD and runs with them in somewhat the same style as the "Naked Gun" movies. Raimi claimed they "stole" the idea from him.
I tried the same thing when I wrote my first screenplay which could be called 'THE WAGES OF FEAR' with women and overloaded it with in jokes and references to Preston Sturges, John Ford, Italian cannibal movies, Hong Kong Category III, Enron, Republic serials etc. I thought it was better than the junk Hollywood turns out these days, but Hollywood wasn't interested.
Where do you go from there? TREASURE ISLAND WITH ZOMBIES. In keeping with ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE, I've written almost 80 pages and they still haven't set sail for Treasure Island! Might as well have fun.
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I have a policy against remakes. However, I thought Sam Raimi's DRAG ME TO HELL was the funniest movie I'd seen in years, and I'm 68.
I met Stella Stevens a few years ago, and she was charitable toward Peckinpah: "He had his demons." She also had good things to say about Strother Martin on "Cable Hogue" which is one of the few Peckinpah my wife has watched
and mentioned Borgnine's autobiography. Very classy and a lot of fun to talk to.
i have seen both versions of "the getaway" and like both pretty much equally - although, it has been awhile since i saw the peckinpah/mcqueen/mcgraw version.
one thing you can say for sure about both is that they are products of their times (the 70's and the 90's). beyond that (and because of that), it's kind of foolish to compare them.
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I don't think the original was so seminal it couldn't be remade. It wasn't even received that well on initial release. You could probably remake this again next year, since the original is long-forgotten by the mainstream public and the 1994 remake tanked. Though, I think the remake was just released at the wrong time. They should have waited until May or June. It is a summer heist flick, after all.
McQueen's better than Baldwin but Basinger is worlds better than MacGraw (who was such an unwilling actress). As for the movies themselves, the original certainly has that Peckinpah flair but is stylistically predictable. Donaldson's remake isn't much better or worse since it's basically an homage to Peckinpah anyhow. Neither film is essential viewing unless you're doing a retrospective of it's respective director.
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I have not watched the original but this is not bad. I am sure the original is better but still worth watching
shareSorry Baldwin is no Steve McQueen.
shareI've never seen the remake, but the original is superb. I'm not normally a fan of films from that era because a lot of the time I find them too corny, but The Getaway is just a straight, gritty, brutal action thriller.
I must admit though, I actually really wanna see the remake. I've heard a few people say it's quite good fun if you switch of your brain and just enjoy the action.