The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 ) is Tony Scott continuing to mess with Michael Bay
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Tony Scott's 2009 film
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a remake of a 1998 TV movie with same name, which is a remake of a 1974 movie with the same name, which is an adaptation of a 1973 book, with the same name. Strangely enough, apart from
Denzel Washington playing the hero and
John Travolta playing the villain, the film also prominently shows
John Turturro and
Ramón Rodríguez which, the same year, also appeared in a
Michael Bay film
Transformens 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
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Déjà Vu 2006 is Tony Scott's Minority Report
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Tony Scott famously didn't care about the time travel plot of
Déjà Vu which freaked out the writers of the film. As they said, he cared more about the action and surveillance aspects of the movie. He famously cared a lot about surveillance, as visible from his previous
Jerry Bruckheimer collaboration
Enemy of the State. And that means, that a sort of sci-fi surveillance movie, marks
Déjà Vu as the closest thing Tony Scott did to
Steven Spielberg's
Minority Report.
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Man on Fire 2004 is Tony Scott's Leon: The Professional
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Critics gave negative reviews to 2004
Tony Scott's film
Man on Fire because of "grim story that gets harder to take the longer it goes on". Are you fucking serious? How then
Lars Von Trier movies get good reviews? Something isn't quite right here. To be frank, the film is very ultra-cinematic. Which could rub some critics the wrong way. Scott doesn't just direct the shit out of it. He also edits the shit out of it. Making one of the coolest directed films in existence. Which if you think about it, isn't particularly what critics find as a serious picture. And yes, the film is grim. At times it feel like a horror film. Not just a thriller. But the film is a rather satisfactory experience.
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Crimson Tide 1995 is a stupidly smart movie
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Before
Jerry Bruckheimer was obsessed with telling all his directors to be like
Michael Bay and before
Don Simpson had passed away. The duo of Simpson and Bruckheimer were obsessed with
Tony Scott, the director of such classics as
Top Gun,
Days of Thunder and
Enemy of the State ( which coincidentally were all produced by Jerry and Don, apart from the last film, which was produced after Don's passing ). But Tony Scott didn't only work with the duo. For example in 1993 he made a film not produced by Jerry and Don called
True Romance from a screenplay of
Quentin Tarantino. Which makes
Crimson Tide the second collaboration of the two
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