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!"
I can't believe they cast a black Carter...
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!
Quote from: Beaky Smoochies on 03 April, 2012, 02:45:45 AM
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!
That bit where he goes "I'm Carter" cracked me up. What on Earth is Damian Lewis doing in this?
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.
Quote from: radiator on 03 April, 2012, 09:56:53 AM
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.
Maybe they offered him money?
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 03 April, 2012, 12:09:22 PM
Maybe they offered him money?
Would have to be a generous amount Im sure.
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 April, 2012, 09:28:37 AM
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!
Blimey, this looks terrible. "It's a watered-down lads mag interpretation" sounds about on the money.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 April, 2012, 10:57:05 AM
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...
in light of the above comments I'm not even going to bother with the trailer :(
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.
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.
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 05 April, 2012, 11:09:09 PM
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.
You're not wrong about the "lad's mag lock-stock approach", and you're not wrong about the fact it was clearly not a character study piece, it was a raunchy, violent (for 1970's telly), and pretty much gung-ho popcorn entertainment show of the highest order, and it's still the best thing British telly has put out (apart from the classic era of The Bill, before it became a soap opera), in my humble opinion...
Oh that just looks dire. How can even have the gall to release that as a marketing piece. I'll stick with the original I think!
That looks terrible, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes looked a lot better (with a tv budget too) and had a better 'Regan'. And the car chase in the trailer just remind me of Top Gear now. (Clarkson and Hammond pretended to be directing the chase on the show.) I don't think I'll even bother watching this when it turns up on telly. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
Slags.
What next? Vinnie Jones as Callan?
i will go and watch unless the hive mind is truly unimpressed, then i shall get a DVD from a folding table version.
pity really its currently looking less then stellar, such great source material,
but budgets do not always equal poor shows.
Maybe in about 30 years or so when we look back on it, it will look a bit retro/classic early 2000's then we will all love it...........not :D
First review of The Sweeney remake, and it's a good one -
http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/-the-sweeney/5043871.article?blocktitle=Latest-Reviews&contentID=1479
- the Guardianisto had a so-called 'review' a couple days back, but was so clearly biased against this film, it ain't worth reading, this is from an American site, so it's interesting to see how they viewed it from both an outsider's and a newcomer's perspective, and they seem to have loved it. According to the official Facebook page, the full theatrical trailer is coming in the next week or so, so we'll get a better look at it then. After that somewhat underwhelming teaser trailer a few months back, I was having second thoughts about this, but I'm actually quite optimistic about this now... now "SHAT IT YOU SLAAAG!!!"
Having watched the trailer...yeaaaaaaaaah. Even with Ray Winstone as Regan, this just doesn't look good. I think the modern day approach just doesn't work. Me and my old man get enjoyment out of the Sweeney
because of all the wonderfully dated chainsmoking, heavy drinking, ultra violent coppers of the show. Pure 70s at its best. I'm not really that an 'update' could work.
Quote from: SKD on 06 April, 2012, 08:28:12 PM
That looks terrible, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes looked a lot better (with a tv budget too) and had a better 'Regan'. And the car chase in the trailer just remind me of Top Gear now. (Clarkson and Hammond pretended to be directing the chase on the show.) I don't think I'll even bother watching this when it turns up on telly. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
Said perfectly. Life on Mars is one of my favourite shows ever, not only because of the psychological depth of a man not sure whether the world he lives in is even real, but because it combined that with
everything that made the Sweeney awesome, chain-smoking coppers and all. That was the true successor of the Sweeney. Not got my hopes up for this one. But then, that's not surprising: it
is directed by Nick Love, after all.
Full theatrical trailer released - http://web.orange.co.uk/p/film/home?package=2047 - still don't know about this one, at least they've removed the terrible blue-grey tint from the teaser trailer, notice it's released in the U.K. and Ireland a mere FIVE days after Dredd, hope it doesn't take away from the latter at the box-office...