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By far, the most entertaining moment on the DVD of "Get Carter" is the hilariously outdated 1971 theatrical preview for the original version of the film, which starred Michael Caine. (Caine does appear in this Stallone update.) Sadly, this update stinks. Sylvester Stallone's Jack Carter, a Las Vegas button man, skips town without his boss's permission and heads up to his old stomping grounds in Seattle to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, whom he hasn't seen in five years. That's the pitch.
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Directed by Stephen Kay, Get Carter is an throught provoking as it is action packed. He even manages to squeeze a good performance out of the uneven Mickey Rourke, as Cyrus Paice, an internet porn baron. Miranda Richardson is the widow left to pick up the pieces while chiding Carter for not being around when his brother needed him most. John C. McGinley, so effective as the psycho killer in the television miniseries Intensity, plays Carter's partner, an equally psychotic sort of another flavor. Thona Mitra furthers her career as "the sexy vamp" playing just that (she was last seen to full detail in Hollow Man). And Michael Caine gets a small but meaty part in this version.
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Mike Hodges, British film director of seminal works such as Get Carter and Croupier as well as blockbusters, including Flash Gordon, talks to the author about his work in film. Get Carter and Beyond takes the reader through the career of Mike Hodges, exploring decades of life in Hollywood and British film-making and the work of an auteur. This first-ever book on Mike Hodges covers the inside stories of working in mainstream and arthouse cinema in both the UK and Hollywood. The book includes: - Foreword by Michael Caine - a brief look at Hodges formative years, his childhood, education, and television work - Get Carter: the making of the movie, from the director's first impressions of the novel, writing the screenplay, casting Caine, Hendry and Ekland and shooting in Newcastle. - Get Caine Again: a look at Pulp (with Caine) made a year later, discussing the glamorization of gangsters. - The Terminal Man: a chapter on this cult 70s sci-fi classic starring George Segal.
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The original Get Carter (based on the book Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis) came out in 1971 and starred Michael Caine. It quickly became a cult classic among many fans of cinema. The new version stars Sylvester Stallone and features Caine, and should attract some interest before fading quickly from the memory of today's fickle moviegoer. It's not that Get Carter is a bad movie; it isn't. It just is not a great movie either. There is nothing to distinguish it from every other action movie out there, and nothing memorable to take away.
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Although director Stephen T. Kay thought about making Get Carter on black-and-white film stock, it was shot in color. However, Kay and director of photography Mauro Fiore still wanted to give it a black-and-white feel, so Fiore used a bleach bypass process in the development of the negative. "This process allowed us to create a stark, contrasting feel without using strictly black and white. The bleach bypass process desaturates the colors and adds more contrast which can give the action a very dark mysterious feel," said Fiore.
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``Get Carter'' was directed by Stephen Kay with an eye for the conventional, and it's too bad. A couple of shockers in the 1971 film are oddly diluted here. A couple of car chases just go through the motions.
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