'THE SWEENEY' REMAKE TRAILER RELEASED

[Beaky Smoochies]

Been tracking this movie's progress, and finally the trailer is out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzjvIS9pmg - don't know what to make of it though, it looks more like a television episode than a theatrical movie, not surprising considering it's paltry £3.5m budget, they better not screw this up, the original series is still the best British series ever made..."SHAT IT!"

[Roger Godpleton]

I can't believe they cast a black Carter...

[dweezil2]

I have very little faith in Nick Love to delivery anything with any real substance-time will tell I suppose.

Can we expect a Danny Dyer cameo?

You slaagggg!

[JOE SOAP]

it looks more like a television episode than a theatrical movie, not surprising considering it's paltry £3.5m budget, they better not screw this up

Don't think a £3.5 million budget is really the issue here, it's  enough -the Raid was made for £700,000- but that is some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. The Sweeney was never that cliche and there's no Granadas/Cortinas!

[radiator]

That bit where he goes "I'm Carter" cracked me up. What on Earth is Damian Lewis doing in this?

[JOE SOAP]

It's a watered-down lads mag interpretation, it'll make its money from that audience but would've been more interesting to update the characters rather than be caricatures.

[Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty)]

That bit where he goes "I'm Carter" cracked me up. What on Earth is Damian Lewis doing in this?

I was thinking the same a rather peculiar casting to say the least.

[Roger Godpleton]

Maybe they offered him money?

[Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty)]

Maybe they offered him money?

Would have to be a generous amount Im sure.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Don't think a £3.5 million budget is really the issue here, it's  enough -the Raid was made for £700,000- but that is some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. The Sweeney was never that cliche and there's no Granadas/Cortinas!

Very good point(s) Joe, and you're absolutely right about the budget issue, but it wasn't the quality of the movie that I was commenting on relative to it's price-tag, it was more the look of it shown in the new trailer, it doesn't even look like a movie, it looks like an extended episode of Thief Takers  rather than an actual movie... even the original series' spin-off movies looked more like movies, and that was with late 1970's production technology for goodness sake!

[Spikes]

Blimey, this looks terrible. "It's a watered-down lads mag interpretation" sounds about on the money.

[MIKE COLLINS]

Blimey, this looks terrible. "It's a watered-down lads mag interpretation" sounds about on the money.

Yeah- I was really looking forward to this-  I thought Ray Winstone was inspired casting- but oh gawd that's rubbish... and the 'you're nicked' line's just lame-- they even laugh at it. Nope, sorry-- this one just made the avoid list...

[Proudhuff]

in light of the above comments I'm not even going to bother with the trailer 

[Tiplodocus]

Now my recollection of THE SWEENEY is pretty poor. I obviously remember it as being violent and raunchy but they show it pre-Watershed now.  Was it really some stand out classic character study of cops on the edge? My recall thinks a lads mag, lock stock approach suits it about right.  The fact that I think that's crap says more about me at my age than it does about what I remember of THE SWEENEY was like.

Please, explain why I'm wrong.

[JOE SOAP]

The point was it worked in the 70's, it looks stupid now with Winstone et al. winking at the camera while they say the old lines. They should've updated the characters a bit.