Please Stop the "Politically Correct" remakes that are ruining Action / Car Chase classics...

My college student daughter works in a great used bookstore that not only gets hard-to-find  and out of print books, they also get classic movies on VHS and DVD. A good customer of hers asked if she could recommend a couple of "Badass" movies. She said-"Sure, my dad is an action movie buff and a writer and two of his favorites are "Vanishing Point" and "The Mechanic." The guy came back the next day, wanting to return the movies and saying "These sucked". My daughter started laughing, and said "Oh, my god, you got the stupid remakes, I'm sorry I should have been specific." "You need "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson and "Vanishing Point with Barry Newman." "The originals, from the '70s"  "I'll trade you, then you tell me what you think." The guy came back a couple days later and told her "Your dad was right-those were awesome." "The remakes were totally different and sissified." "No comparison" "The '70's versions kicked ass." "These new ones pussed out."  Here's why-In the Original "Vanishing Point" that was made in 1971-"Kowalski" played by Barry Newman-was a Vietnam Vet, an ex-cop, and ex-race car driver and motorcycle racer who was working for a car delivery service in Denver. He supposed to deliver a white, 440, 4-speed 1970 Dodge Challenger to San Francisco. He bets his drug dealer the bill for some speed that he can make the trip in 15 hours. This leads to some badass car-chase action as he eludes the police in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada on his way to California. He's helped along the way by the now deceased Cleavon Little-playing a blind, clairvoiyant outlaw DJ named "Super Soul" who talks to him over the radio and steers him away from the police. Through flashbacks we see why he quit being a cop, and that his wife died tragically. Along the way he also meets a snake-charmer, two homosexuals who try to rob him, and a biker / slash drug dealer who's girlfriend rides a dirt-bike naked around their spread and offers to have sex with Kowalski while her man is out scouting where the cops are. Kowlalski is visited by his dead wife who says "I've been waiting for you" He goes out in a blaze of glory by hitting two bulldozers that the California Highway Patrol has placed on the state line. The look on Barry Newman's face as he drives into the bulldozers is ethereal. He looks like the happiest man alive.  In the 1997 remake Viggo Mortenson-( Who I loved in both " A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises" ) plays Kowalski-who's a Desert Storm vet working for a car dealer that specializes in classic musclecars. His wife is 9 months pregnant and suffers from lupus. He has to deliver a 1970 Challenger-for some reason this time a Hemi-to San Francisco. 1st off-how about not leave on the trip if your sick wife is about to deliver the baby any day now?  He leaves, she goes into labor. He get's the frantic call from their friend. How about park the car and get on an airplane and be there in a couple hours? Plot hole you could drive a truck through # 1.   No he decides to run home in the car, leading the police on a chase across three states, to get home to his dying wife and child. Of course if you want to believe that in 1997 America-pre-9 /11 mind you-that he couldn't get a flight that day or even the next day which would still be quicker than a 3 day road trip, go ahead. And of course-he doesn't tell the first cop that stops him this poignant, sad tale and ask for a police escort home- or since he's ex-military how about an escort to an air force base and hitch a ride home on an military plane?  No he runs and starts a manhunt. "Super Soul" this time, isn't black, isn't blind, and isn't psychic. He's played by Jason Priestley and rants like he's a little to the right of the Unabomber and eventually rats Kowalski out to the cops. He breaks the oil pan and goes to this shade-tree mechanics house who just "happens to have" a Hemi Oil pan "laying around". Rigghhhhtt. His girlfriend is played by the smokin' hot Peta Wilson ( "La Femme Nikita, "Mercy" ) and she does ride a dirt-bike in coveralls, and then shorts and combat boots. If they didn't want to do full-nude, they could have at least given us a gratuitous barefoot-in-a-bikini scene. And she doesn't offer to screw him. Anyhow-the cops for some reason think he's a terrorist and want to kill him. At the end they imply that he somehow bailed out of the car at 100+mph before it hit the bulldozers, survived this and slipped away without the 50 cops there seeing him and went home to raise the kid and live happily ever after even though his wife did die in childbirth. Gag.   As for the "Mechanic" Charles Bronson was a gifted actor before he got lazy and started phoning in a "Death Wish" sequel every few years when he needed money. Anyhow-his Arthur Bishop is a mob hitman who suffers from insomnia and migraine headaches, and is so lonely that he pays expensive hookers to write him love letters, and takes a young Jan-Micheal Vincent-the son of one of his victims-under his wing and teaches him the trade. Vincent is chilling as a self-centered, spoiled sociopathic adrenaline junkie. When Bronson inadvertantly sees that Vincent has a contract on him-the game of cat and mouse between teacher and student begins-and they eventually kill each other. I won't say how because I don't want to spoil the awesome ending for people who want to go buy or rent the movie. In the 2011 remake- Jason Statham phones in his typical "I'm mysterious badass, so don't fuck with me" perfomance. He buys the hooker a puppy. Ben Foster plays his protege-who unlike Jan-Micheal Vincent's character-hung on Bronson's every word and wanted to learn everything he could to be an even better killer- even saving Bronson's life a couple times in gunfights because he thought he needed to know more before he took on the big dog-no this moron does the exact opposite of what Statham tells him to do several times, nearly getting himself and Stahtam killed in the process. And of course Statham doesn't kick his ass or tell him to fuck off because he doesn't listen-he let's him hang around and try to kill him. And instead of Bishop being shockingly killed by his friend that he thought had changed his mind about killing him-no-of course Statham's character survives-obviously so they could make a sequel-but thank god it tanked and they won't. How do you make a hitman a nice person?  You don't. Anyway-please Hollywood-stop butchering classics-please.  Mastermind