Watched on Sunday January 7, 2024.
The 39 Steps, 1935 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday January 7, 2024.
Renegades, 1989 - ★★½
If it was just a basic, forgettable late 80s action movie, one of those movies you'd find on Fox during a slow weekend afternoon when they needed to fill time it'd be fine. But they added Lou Diamond Phillips and an Indigenous plot to make it worse. Floyd Red Crow Westerman is good in a bit part.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, 2009 - ★★
The 1973 version is infinitely better. Denzel and John Travolta do not equal Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Plus the entire premise of the film works much better in the pre-Internet New York.
Pros:
- Denzel
- James Gandolfini
Cons:
- 2000s action thriller slo-mo
- 2000s action thriller music
- Robert Shaw hijacked a subway in 1973 and did the crossword. Travolta is just whiny looking at stocks
- The 1973 ending was better than the book’s. This one was much dumber by comparison.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974 - ★★★★★
The book doesn’t hold up, this does.