i saw the remake with stallone first. i liked it. then i watched the caine original. i liked that one too. but in all honesty, i liked the remake better. im usually very against remakes, since they tend to be very poorly done. this remake had some cheesy elements, but overall, i liked the style. i think stallone is much more believable as a professional killer than michael caine. now, i love michael caine. he is one of my favorite actors of all time. my favorite movie of his is 'sleuth.' but i just never really accepted him as a killer in the original. and despite what everyone says about stallone's acting abilities, i think he's very underrated. lest we forget he was nominated for best actor for both an academy award and a golden globe for rocky. granted he has made a number of terrible decisions as to what movies he's made since then, but i think he gave a very solid, against type performance in 'cop land,' so it's not that he's incapable. there's another stallone movie on right now that i've never heard of, called "lock up," and so far i like his performance in that. i definitely liked his performance in the get carter remake. mickey rourke and john c. mcginley also were very good, as usual, although alan cummings gave one of his weaker performances. one scene that was in both movies really stands out in my mind as being better in the remake. when carter is leaning in to talk to the guys in the car, and the guy inside starts to open the door, and carter kicks it in. it was damn cool in the original, but holy *beep* he tears the guy up in the remake. it should also be said that i'm not a big fan of action movies, so what i was really focusing on was the story and the characters. the original is a classic, no doubt, but just because it's a classic doesnt mean it's perfect. in the context of the time, michael caine in that kind of role was more surprising and interesting. but that was 30 years ago, and there have been a billion movies made since then that trade on the same basic plot, so we're jaded now. so to everyone who hates the new one because it can't hold up to the original, maybe some night the stallone remake will come on tv (like it is right now on TNT), maybe there will be nothing else on, and maybe you'll give it another chance. and maybe, you'll let yourselves forget all about the original, and you'll like it.
maybe.
-salamander
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SydneyAlias1306
20 years ago
I saw the remake first too but both of them were good though like I said, both films had pros and cons, basically...they're all the same except on those stuff that they made some difference, some might have updated to make it better or some don't. That's why I liked both of them. I don't usually hate remakes or anything like that. I just like anything from movies. Take Dawn of the Dead as an example...I thought the original was much better than remake but I viewed remake again and thought it was a nice remake. Like I said... there is nothing that can be criticized or slap down so hard. George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead had excellent music and fast pacing even though the gore and violence was so cheesy but it had great moments of pacing. I didn't feel any of excitement for remake that much as I did for the original which is probably why I didn't like some kind of special effects that they used for remake. I prefer more of realistic techinques with use of stuntmen including camera movements. Remake is good because they updated the makeups of zombines that George A. Romero had failed for original one however, you know why he failed for original because technology hasn't improved at that time. Wow, is that funny to see a big difference compared to 70s to 90s films..they had a true quality to its own films than present films. Look how good Star Wars episode 4 to 6 were compared to episode 1 to 3. It's part of reason why it turned me off. Anyways my point to both versions of Get Carter...remake had its own style that does fit to its theme that original didn't have. That goes same for Stallone's characater, he did the job as what he supposed to do for his character that Caine didn't do in original version. Original version had its own moments like the film had British style to it which is part of the reason why it was much better because it had different style than America's version.
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