Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1975
Video Release : 16 July, 1996 |
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Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 Customer Reviews
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Theres just one thing baby. They're all green!!
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This movie is truly a timeless classic, from the goofy college girl meditating for a red light, the gruf not suffering any fools police officers.The powerless MTA officials expressing their frustration of powerlessness at the unrevaling of events.The portrayal of NYC in grips with a financial crisis of the 70s.The dialogue and reaction of the average person on the subway train.The glimpses of the WTC in the background(who knew those glimpses would mean so much for someone who grew up in NYC).The facetious remarks('Yeah I got eyes', 'How many hijacked trains have we got?','Whose moving?'),they may seem like goofy one liner fillers but they are genuine and not canned like todays movie dialogues.
This is the movie that deserves to be a cult classic, not the ridiculous and surreal Taxi Driver.Character development is excellent because it feels genuine.This movie can never be replicated.Most of the key characters in this movie grew up in NYC which is so key to playing a genuine New York official.The subway scenes are authentic, I've ridden the subway for decades and know those lines and the streets with the exits.All of it 100% authentic.I've realized that movies are meant more to be enjoyed than believed.This movie is enjoyable because of its authenticity.This movie shows that NYC is the main character and the people add life to it.This movie will never be replicated or duplicated, but has been copied.Oh, cant forget the music.The theme from Taking of Pelham 123 is so very NYC, a 70's jazz song that tells you there is trouble in NYC, big trouble.You could transplant the characters from the 70's into today and they wouldnt seem out of place.The reason thats even possible is because they all played their background.Shaw plays an English out of work mercanary (Shaws from the UK and has that sinister look to him),Mathau plays a Transit Cop(Mathau grew up NYC), even the little kids playing at the front of the subway car (I remember hoping to get on the front of the train when my mom and I would ride it when I was a kid).This is THE NYC Subway thriller movie. |
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