The Hitcher remake

[The Dark Defender]

Sean Bean looks to be the WORST thing about this movie in the trailers. He has no sense of creepyness, oomph, or zing that Rutger had.

Bean is the worst thing about this movie in the same way that Hopkins and Englund are the worst things about the Lecter and Krueger films.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Spoiler

After thinking about it, the rock music over the highway shootout with Ryder dispatching of the cops actually works in a way, because it puts you inside his head during it and shows how he views this as a fun game. I have mixed feelings about it because of what I said in my last post, but it does work better than I thought.

what's sad about this point is that I would bet my left nut in saying that wasn't the directors intentions.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Bean is the worst thing about this movie in the same way that Hopkins and Englund are the worst things about the Lecter and Krueger films.

Sorry. No, just no. Bean is a terrific actor usually, but from every small bit of this film I've seen him in, it says a whole lot of about his performance in this film.

It says that he sucks in this film and for some reason did not bring his A Game to this role of John Ryder. And therefore if the actor playing the villian isn't batting out of the park in a movie of this nature which revolves much more around the villian than your typical horror/thriller than the whole movie just does not matter.

There are just some roles that are originally played by one actor and just can not be played by anyone else. Those are in horror as followed:

Rutger Hauer as John Ryder
Donald Pleasance as Dr. Sam Loomis
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates/Mother
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

Everyone else in the horror genre is fair game. Remaking this movie was a dumb mistake in the first place. Platinum Dunes has a win/lose situation with these remakes. The TCM remake was okay, it's prequel was better. The Amityville remake was awful. Now it's just become about money for them. That's all this project was about. Money. And it shows...there's just none of the elements that made the first one great in this.

I fear The Birds remake. There's no telling what they'll do to that. -rolleyes-

 

[zanos]

Sean Bean is not nearly as attractive as Sophia Bush.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Sorry. No, just no. Bean is a terrific actor usually, but from every small bit of this film I've seen him in, it says a whole lot of about his performance in this film.

It says that he sucks in this film and for some reason did not bring his A Game to this role of John Ryder. And therefore if the actor playing the villian isn't batting out of the park in a movie of this nature which revolves much more around the villian than your typical horror/thriller than the whole movie just does not matter.

There are just some roles that are originally played by one actor and just can not be played by anyone else. Those are in horror as followed:

Rutger Hauer as John Ryder
Donald Pleasance as Dr. Sam Loomis
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates/Mother
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

Everyone else in the horror genre is fair game. Remaking this movie was a dumb mistake in the first place. Platinum Dunes has a win/lose situation with these remakes. The TCM remake was okay, it's prequel was better. The Amityville remake was awful. Now it's just become about money for them. That's all this project was about. Money. And it shows...there's just none of the elements that made the first one great in this.

I fear The Birds remake. There's no telling what they'll do to that. -rolleyes-

It's not Bean's fault they remade it, I suppose if you're conent to criticize anyone else that plays The Hitcher due to how well Rutger played it that's up to you, but Bean was indeed depicting a great, very intimidating villain.

 

[The Dark Defender]

what's sad about this point is that I would bet my left nut in saying that wasn't the directors intentions.

I heard they actually wanted you to root for Ryder, and that's why the played that music.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

but was there a deep thought and intention to show that ryder thinks all of it is a game?


basically, i'm calling Dave Meyers a music video director. that's all he'll ever know how to do is to film action scenes to rock music.

 

[The Dark Defender]

but was there a deep thought and intention to show that ryder thinks all of it is a game?


basically, i'm calling Dave Meyers a music video director. that's all he'll ever know how to do is to film action scenes to rock music.

No, I was just pointing out a way of looking at it, I wasn't saying that was exactly what he intended.

 

[Ghostrider84]

where can I get the glue Ryder used on his pictures?

 

[Reptile]

I just watched the original again today, now to see the remake to see how much they ****ed it up

 

[Reptile]

I rented hitcher 2 also, cause I wanted to see how bad the straight to DVD sequel could be

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I rented hitcher 2 also, cause I wanted to see how bad the straight to DVD sequel could be

Hitcher 2 is pretty much a set up for the remake.

Y'know crap with a crap villian and a crappy actress playing the lead.

 

[Dope Nose]

here's a strange bit about Eric Red who wrote the screenplay for the original Hitcher.

http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/seeing_red.phtml#more

http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/death-race-2000/12382/

In May 2000, screenwriter Eric Red was involved in a minor fender-bender on Wilshire in West Los Angeles ... (Reds Jeep Cherokee hit a car in front of him) and when the guy in the car ahead walked back to (Reds Jeep), he saw Red slumped over the wheel, but staring straight ahead, his eyes open wide. Then the car started to move. Slowly, the Jeep pushed the other car out of the intersection until it jacknifed into oncoming traffic -- his girlfriend screaming in the front seat all the while. At the last second, Red's Jeep slipped off the back bumper and his tires found traction, jumpstarting him from 15 to 50 mph in a matter of seconds, and he crashed through a bus shelter, through the plate glass windows of a pool hall, and against the giant mahogany bar 20 feet inside, killing two people who were pinned against the bar and injuring 20. Then, when everyone was trying to rock the jeep back off his victims, Red wandered off, picked up a shard of glass, and slit his throat.

That's when the weird part really began. Red went immediately into the hospital on suicide watch, stayed out of the paper, and nine months later, LAPD announced they were dropping all charges -- it turns out, due to a neurological condition which caused him to pass out at the wheel. That would have been the end of it, except that the family of one of the victims was all lawyers, and they pursued him through the courts for five years before winning a million-dollar judgment. But in a monumental bit of reporting, Cullum documents every twist and turn -- including the similarities between the accident and his own films and unproduced screenplays, and the script he wrote after the fact making fun of the whole thing. It's not a tale for the faint-hearted.

And here's a tidbit you won't find in the story: When being admitted to UCLA hospital hours after the accident, Red insisted on being registered under the name Mario Kan. Mario Kan is an anagram for "I RAN AMOK."

 

[Tempest19]

WTF?

Is this from some tabloid or something? Or has Eric Red gone 'Hitcher' on all of us???

 

[Darth Elektra]

DVD:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/the-hitcher2.html

 

[Kabuki_Jo]

I've just finished watching this flick and damn...what a horrible movie!
That's quite certainly the worst remake I've ever seen.

 

[Arklight]

I thought it was pretty cool. And the music at the end was a bit too much but I loved it. Jablonsky did a good job with that.

Here's a clip of the ending with the music playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0db9a3xi1Cg

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I thought the movie was boring and the two leads couldn't act worth s**t. Sophia Bush is a terrible actress. She's been bad in everything I've seen her in. The acting on One Tree Crap is pretty lame all around but she is the worse, I can't image her having anymore than a B-list career in awful horror movies. I just can't believe people like her are getting work, there is absolutely nothing even remotely special about her...I hope she somehow proves me wrong.

 

[Sentinel X]

Oh God, this movie sucked really bad. It was so stupid and predictable and the death scenes are just too out there to make me care...like the guy who got ripped in half by the trucks