Whichever way you look at it, the original Mini Cooper S earned it's place in the original Italian Job movie and that's something we should all be proud of.
As for modern Hollywood drivel and endless remakes, well they can go stuff all that.
New Italian Job
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M!ke
, Mar 11 2008 11:25 AM
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Posted 11 March 2008 - 05:59 PM
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Posted 11 March 2008 - 06:04 PM
I really like the new Italian Job!!
*eeek, runs and hides*
*eeek, runs and hides*
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Posted 11 March 2008 - 06:23 PM
The BRAZILIAN JOB???! Are they serious?! Come on, does it not make everyone else think of something to do with wax?!
Lol is it a clean film? or one for the internet?
Binis were used because the original plan to get the gold was to drive into the house to get the gold until charlie and crew got busted in the restaurant.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 07:00 AM
I agree with most comments on here.
The original film cannot be beaten, and i have to agree that the Bini, as far as a car goes, aint all that bad, but it sucks as far as being a mini is concerned. (they aint even that small!)
And i feel that this is where the new film goes wrong. If you class something as a sequel, or the second part, or whatever, at least try to stick to the whole ethos of the first.
As far as a film goes, (rubbish to be honest), but it is definatley tainted by calling it The Italian Job, as it has some huge shoes to fill, and its feet just aint big enough.
The Brazillian Job? Can you imagine the plot behind this one? Might have the same cast as Snatch.
Thoughts, lol
The original film cannot be beaten, and i have to agree that the Bini, as far as a car goes, aint all that bad, but it sucks as far as being a mini is concerned. (they aint even that small!)
And i feel that this is where the new film goes wrong. If you class something as a sequel, or the second part, or whatever, at least try to stick to the whole ethos of the first.
As far as a film goes, (rubbish to be honest), but it is definatley tainted by calling it The Italian Job, as it has some huge shoes to fill, and its feet just aint big enough.
The Brazillian Job? Can you imagine the plot behind this one? Might have the same cast as Snatch.
Thoughts, lol
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 10:08 AM
My ex took me to see the 2003 Italian Job (strangely not long before we split up ) I fell asleep 
) I fell asleep
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 12:51 PM
Its pretty obvious the BMW MINI was used because it such an iconic car. The film would have been far les interesting if they were driving random cars.
I agree with the above aswel, the BMW MINI is a great little car and a lot better than most of the cars on the current market. And IS an iconic car of its own time.... yes it had the history of the original mini to help it but it is still one of the most popular cars of today hence why it was used in the film.
For the sake of everyone who doesn't know, the BMW MINI was infact designed by Rover, there was no way the original mini was going to hold up in the market for much longer so they did what every other car manufacturer does..... they redesigned it.
So can we please stop comparing the original mini with the new mini.
I also really enjoyed the new film, probably more than the original but I will still say the original was a fantastic film and had a muge bigger impact on its time as a film than the new one will ever have.
I agree with the above aswel, the BMW MINI is a great little car and a lot better than most of the cars on the current market. And IS an iconic car of its own time.... yes it had the history of the original mini to help it but it is still one of the most popular cars of today hence why it was used in the film.
For the sake of everyone who doesn't know, the BMW MINI was infact designed by Rover, there was no way the original mini was going to hold up in the market for much longer so they did what every other car manufacturer does..... they redesigned it.
So can we please stop comparing the original mini with the new mini.
I also really enjoyed the new film, probably more than the original but I will still say the original was a fantastic film and had a muge bigger impact on its time as a film than the new one will ever have.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 12:55 PM
there was no way the original mini was going to hold up in the market for much longer
Technically the MPi Mini could have legally stayed in production until 2003, according to Rover.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 01:10 PM
there was no way the original mini was going to hold up in the market for much longer
Technically the MPi Mini could have legally stayed in production until 2003, according to Rover.
yer legally.... but to no extent that the new mini has.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 02:16 PM
If they were going to make a film and put Italian Job in the title there's no way they could use a car that wasn't a Mini in some way. It would have been impossible to recreate the real action scenes of the original, they were bound to fail no matter how much camera trickery and CGI they used. Quite fitting really, the original Mini is inimitable and so, as they proved, is its most famous screen performance.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 02:22 PM
I think this has been covered a few times before.. i watched it for free at BMW plant Oxford (they built a cinema inside the production area!!!
) There was free popcorn and they unveiled the Mini Convertible at the same time.
I fell asleep and never did see the end.
- we rigged that event !!
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Posted 13 March 2008 - 10:17 PM
the BMW MINI was infact designed by Rover
Nope, it was designed by a Yank who then left to work for Maserati.
The original Mini was designed by Alec Issigonis and that's why the BINI will always be just a BINI.
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Posted 13 March 2008 - 11:11 PM
Probably because BMW payed the producers a lot of money. Product placement is very common in films these days.
Yeup, that's why Ford paid an obscene ammount for the new Mondeo (just befor it was launched) to be in the first 5 mins of the last Bond film.
I wondered why sophisticated James was driving a Ford.
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