Now I usually don't like remakes. Why do it over unless you can do it better and people are usually fooling themselves thinking they can do it better if its already a classic. But this is definitely the exception. Now I fall somewhere in the middle , except for George Clooney the other members of the casts are just names to me( I don't get out to the movies much) and Sinatra and Lawford,etc. . although I am very familiar with are more of my mothers generation. But you gotta admit the sheer star power of the first movie is intimidating. But this new version can stand along side(and will) the original in the classic hall of fame. I bought both movies(It had been so long since I had seen the first) and played the new one first(I hadn't seen it yet). I was absolutely bowled over. The updates fit right in and just seemed natural. There was still a surprise at the end and not the one I expected. I thought well I don't believe it but watching the old one is going to be a letdown. Well was I wrong! The old one was made so well what must have been 40 years ago that it hadn't lost a beat or a bit of its sparkle. These two movies will stand together for another 50 years. Showing that when you do it right you can always do it again. Treat yourself. Watch them both.
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Detour to Terror
(1980 TV Movie)
Lorenzo Lamas as you have absolutely never seen him before!
24 May 2002
Well you take O.J. Simpson as a all american soldier turned all american bus driver who decides to rescue his passengers on his own just incase no one else is going to and Arte Johnson in an absolutely straight role as the tour guide who doesn't know what to do but doesn't want to admit they are in trouble and combine it with Lorenzo Lamas as one of three baby faced bad boys who intend to kidnap an heiress and leave a busload of people to die on the dessert and you have got to have action, plot twists and a lot of drama. Everyone was good but seeing Lamas as the baddest of the bad boys really blew my mind. He was much too believable as the overbearing bad guy who not only wanted to kidnap the heiress but rape the women and humiliate the guy who tried to stop him. This was evidently long before he cultivated his good guy image. And believe me a 20 year old Lorenzo in tight jeans you really don't want to miss!
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