rip off of longest hard and the great escape

touche liljman, obviously i did mean the original, which was actually decent, the remake was fing horrible

They acknowledge it in the opening credits.

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Yeah it is a British word. I love how condescending and obnoxious everyone else is about American football. They don't understand the first thing about it, and they don't understand why Americans don't like Soccer so they have this false superiority about how much better their sport is. They are completely different types of games. Certainly some Americans can be insulting when it comes to soccer, but these Brits just refuse to believe that anything different than their preferences are acceptable, while plenty of Americans have an ecclectic taste in sports. Most American sports have become international, and most international sports are accepted in American, but American football is an anomoly I guess. Soccer will never be a premiere sport in America just as American football will never be played at all outside of the U.S. and Canada.

It's just annoying how much either is pushed on the opposite markets. The NFL playing games in London is ridiculous. British people clearly could not care any less about the games, the players hate going, the fans hate having their tickets taken away from them, the stands are filled with Americans who happen to be in England, and the games are always terrible. Then on the other side, we are constantly being told as Americans that we should care about the World Cup and what not and we are lied to and told that U.S. team is going to be good, and the MLS spent a quarter of a billion dollars getting an aging, over the hill David Beckham to ignite the interest of the Amrtican population and it didn't work at all; and what's more he isn't even playing in this country at the moment.

It would be nice if either Americans or the rest of the world could realize that they are both worthwhile sports of completely different kinds and that certain fan bases like one more than the other. But you have to be completely misinformed to think that Americans are being less reasonable about this issue than their European counterparts. And as far as this movie goes, it's a remake of a very good American film. I may not like remakes, but at least the British filmmakers of this seemed to have no problem with respecting the story and tone of the original film. I don't get why if the English filmmakers had no problem with the American film the English viewers have to be so obnoxious about it.

...Also, to call a remake a 'proper' version is just stupid.