In the original, I'm pretty sure the bank they set their sights on robbing was just a bank. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad, it was just a bank.
But could they do the same thing in the remake given Hollywood's ever more left wing culture? Come on. The question answers itself.
Welcome to 21st Century America, where left wing politics needs to intrude on everything.
EVERYTHING.
Incredible.
so thinking the people who destroyed multiple world economies are "evil" is left wing?
Well, i guess they do say reality has a liberal bias and Hollywood reflecting reality is hardly a bad thing.
Exactly! Reality has a liberal bias, therefore banks and bankers are evil and they destroyed the economies of the world!
Very logical.
The problem I have is the "social commentary" is just gonna by used as window dressing for dumb jokes. In the original, the bank had nothing do with the plot, other than they robbed it out of sheer desperation. Ultimately, them robbing the bank wasn't what the film was about... it was about them kicking back and adding some excitment (and dare I say) manly dignity to their autumn years.
You just know this film won't even come close to any of the rounded characterization of the original... just some cheap jokes with old dudes being juvenile.
I never earned a nickel from another man's sweat!
So you'd have less of a problem if the social commentary was taken more seriously and not used as fodder for dumb jokes?
Not me. I'd still have a problem. And I guess I'll start having less of a problem when Hollywood stops trying to insert trendy left-wing politics into every nook and cranny of its output.
I don't know why you think seniors having serious financial problems is simply "left wing politics." Factory pensions disappearing and houses being foreclosed on are very much issues here in the Midwest where Hillary Clinton lost this election. I loved the original too but I don't see any problem with inserting some modern reality into this film.
shareI don't think seniors having serious financial problems is "left-wing politics".
Please read what I wrote in my original post about how in the upcoming remake the bank they are robbing is evil. That's a plot point the original movie didn't have, and it reflects the left-wing slant many Hollywood movies seem to express now.
In the preview I saw a banker was informing Michael Caine that he owes triple his mortgage payment. That is a real experience for people who did not understand the intricacies of their loans. You view this as a political statement that "banks are evil." I view it as sad reality that people I know have faced. Hillary Clinton was Goldman Sachs pin-up girl so I don't know how that is left wing unless you are talking about Bernie Sanders progressives. Busineses sell out and pensions are lost. This particular issue was one that helped Trump get elected so I don't know how that is left wing. If the 2016 election has taught us anything it is that old school left and right are not as clear cut as they once were.
share-- the Sanders camp and the Trump camp were BOTH populated by idiots! And the Hillary camp was no better.
Because we're talking about a creepy clueless socialist (but I repeat myself) whose fiscal policy was based on Magical Thinking... a creepy vuglar con man huckster (but I repeat myself) who panders to racists and makes nice to the former Soviet Union... and a manifestly corrupt former Secretary of State.
Great gosh almighty.
I'm not sure who's worse -- the idiots I just mentioned or the idiots who supported them.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that GOING IN STYLE won't be expressing a specifically Left or Right Wing point of view.
That comes as a relief.
I like that this is not just some "remake" where its the EXACT SAME STORY with new actors. I have seen remakes where they are almost exactly the same word for word.
I like that this story is more sophisticated. It is not just some generic "life sucks and I am bored, lets go rob a bank". Modern immorality with banks is being explored and they have a specific reason to want revenge on the bank and unlike the original after getting what they feel they rightfully deserve since the bank screwed them over the rest will go to charity, they are not just doing it for themselves.
The original was a great though sad movie and I do not like it any less but I do appreciate that the remake is taking a new turn.
I hope that most of them do not die by the end in this. They are about 80 but nowadays people live to be around 100 and it will feel generic to me if they all pass away too fast.