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Lots to love (and hate) in Hollywood remakes
Hollywood loves to retreat into its past and update old material. Exhibit A this summer is "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," opening Friday, a remake, retelling, recycling or reimagining (the studio prefers "retelling") of a 1974 film starring Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam and Robert Shaw. Both feature a gang that hijacks a New York subway car and holds it for ransom, but the latest incarnation, starring...
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