Here at Screengrab, we’re all pretty big fans of Joseph Sargent’s classic subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and we weren’t too happy to hear of the Tony Scott-directed remake. Now that the trailer has arrived, it looks like a fairly professional job, and might end up being a serviceable action movie. But to me, that just isn’t what made the original movie special. It was street-level squareness, the fact that it took place in a world of everyday professional folks. It’s the kind of movie in which the bad guys aren’t badass-looking ex-cons, but normal-looking men in dorky hats who could blend into a crowd, and in which Walter Matthau can crack the case not through his facility with a gun but rather his ability to recognize a certain noise made by one of the gang (bet you even money this version changes the awesome ending). In short, I might be tempted to see this under any other name, but to these eyes there’s only one Pelham, and this sure as heck ain’t it.