So I recently watched The Italian Job.

"Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy" (zipppyart) 01/17/2015 at 22:59 • Filed to: None

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The remake, you numnuts.

In what seems to be a marketing ploy for MINI, (they were new at the time, remember that), the movie is actually quite decent, and the engine noises are fairly accurate.

It was in a series of movies I watched on the flight from Sao Paulo to Miami earlier on this month.

One of the characters has a classic Rover Mini Cooper, and drives like a jerk with it. Their driving comes in handy later on, when they do the heist. It seems like their heist car is supercharged, when the other two aren't.

carcrasher88 > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/17/2015 at 23:08

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Yeah, they used one MINI Cooper S (red) and two regular Coopers (white and blue).

The big giveaway is the fact that the red one has the S hood with the scoop, and side shots of it showed the S badge on the fender, where the other two lacked them.

RMudkips > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/17/2015 at 23:22

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I liked that remake as an 8 year old.

bob and john > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/17/2015 at 23:26

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funny, when that movie came out, my dad was 1/2 joking, 1/2 serious about buying me, him and my mom matching minis (like the movie) and start following bank trucks around for fun XD

shop-teacher > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/17/2015 at 23:26

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I quite like the remake. I finally saw the original a few months ago, and I thought it sucked something awful.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/17/2015 at 23:33

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You mean the Los Angeles Job. Lol. Still a great movie though.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/17/2015 at 23:35

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They did a heist in Venice in the beginning of the movie actually, that's when this story starts.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > bob and john 01/17/2015 at 23:35

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oh man.

Flat Six > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/18/2015 at 00:01

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I love this line ....

Sn210 > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/18/2015 at 00:11

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I love how Jason Statham shows up in a bmw 8 series sideways

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/18/2015 at 01:33

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Unpopular Oppinion: I prefer the remake. To me it seems to be more cohesive as a whole and I thought the ending of the original was dumb. Donald Sutherland is great, but it would have been much better if that character were played by Michael Caine in the remake.

Svend > shop-teacher 01/18/2015 at 01:38

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The newer one wasn't a remake as such it was meant as a follow on from the original but could also be appreciated as a singular film in it's own right.

Svend > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/18/2015 at 01:42

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I prefered the original. The second was okay but they had hyped it up for the modern day viewer which was a slight let down. I think it would of been better to film it in the original style but set in the modern day, maybe in Germany or France.

The start of the second one was a homage to the first and then became Americanised very rapidly.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Svend 01/18/2015 at 03:51

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Once the story moved towards Los Angeles, it went entirely differently than I expected.

Svend > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/18/2015 at 04:05

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Ye', Which is a real shame.

I think they should of taken a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt Hahn, Germany rather than the United Airlines flight to LAX, U.S.A.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Sn210 01/18/2015 at 07:24

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I love that he basically only ever plays Handsome Rob in every film he's been in.

shop-teacher > Svend 01/18/2015 at 08:37

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Good point.

Maxxuman > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/19/2015 at 19:44

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It obviously can't be nearly as good as the original, as it doesn't start with a Lamborghini Miura being driven on mountain roads.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/20/2015 at 00:36

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You watched the wrong italian job. Michael Caine did it better in the first one