The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Directed by John McTiernan
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover as he’s fallen in love.
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These include a glider ride in Georgia that makes you yearn for the autumnal flying scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).
Christian wows her with rides, first in his thunderous chopper and then in his smooth white glider, presumably praying that she won’t have seen Pierce Brosnan do the same in “The Thomas Crown Affair.”
Yet, much like the line from another remake, 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair , “It’s not about the money.
The duel between Estella/Cruella and The Baroness, playing out at galas and in the pages of fashion magazines, is where it shines, evoking everything from The Hunger Games to The Thomas Crown Affair (the Pierce Brosnan one).
Sator, being a rich daredevil, races his catamaran at such a lick that it almost flies over the waves, but then so did the title character in “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1999).
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I found that shit painful when Pierce Brosnan did it with Rene Russo in “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1999).
Consider a film like the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which Focus tips to with its closing credits tune “The Windmills Of Your Mind.”
While updating it for the '90s, director John McTiernan ("Die Hard") has infused "The Thomas Crown Affair" with the same style that distinguished the 1968 Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway (here seen in a cameo) original.
The original version of The Thomas Crown Affair, released in 1968, is an ideal project to be remade.
Plagued by a number of immoderate filmmaking follies, the Pierce Brosnan-Rene Russo remake of 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair" would be easy to malign if it weren't so maddeningly enjoyable.
That's the premise of "The Thomas Crown Affair," a remake of the 1968 Norman Jewison film of the same name that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway as the playfully adversarial "couple."
I've never seen the acclaimed 1968 Norman Jewison caper romance, "The Thomas Crown Affair," which top-lined Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and after viewing this highly stylized 1999 remake, let's just say I'm not exactly dying to rent it anytime soon.
Sexy, stylish and sophisticated, the 1999 model of The Thomas Crown Affair makes the 1968 original seem darn near creaky.
The screenplay by adaptation expert Leslie Dixon (Hairspray, The Thomas Crown Affair) is a generally tight affair, breathlessly moving us from scene to scene, which encourages us to keep looking forward, rather than backward, where we might notice a few of the plot holes and unresolved questions.
With a resume of hit films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Pay It Forward, along with the Hairspray and The Thomas Crown Affair remakes, Limitless shows her range as much as it does it’s star, Bradley Cooper.
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If Salt were nothing but chase sequences, it might grow tedious, but Noyce, working from a script by Kurt Wimmer (who co-wrote the elegant remake of The Thomas Crown Affair), builds nuts-and-bolts suspense into the question of who Salt is, which side she's on ?
In fact, along with the collaboration of screenwriter Kurt Wimmer ("The Thomas Crown Affair," "Law Abiding Citizen"), he's outdone himself.
Unfortunately, the writer, Kurt Wimmer ( Equilibrium , The Thomas Crown Affair ), decided to reveal a crucial piece of information far too early, causing the audience to no longer even wonder about that pivotal plot point.