Magnificent Seven Remake

[g5000]

This feels like it would feel if they remade The Godfather or Citizen Kane or The Ten Commandments.

Why, motherfuckers? Why?!?

 

[g5000]

Salt in the wound: A remake of House of the Rising Sun on the soundtrack.

What...the...fuck?!?

 

[Unkotare]

The Magnificent Seven WAS a remake in the first place.

 

[Synthaholic]

Why, motherfuckers? Why?!?

Because the corporate movie business rarely has an original thought.

 

[Auld Phart]

Hollywood can't seem to find new scripts.

I've seen movies in the last 20+ years that I first saw as silent.

 

[hjmick]

The Magnificent Seven WAS a remake in the first place.

And the original was much better.

 

[aaronleland]

I've seen movies in the last 20+ years that I first saw as silent.

They should have been silent and unseen.

 

[aaronleland]

God forbid studios make old movies watchable. They might accidentally throw in good acting and realistic effects.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The Magnificent Seven WAS a remake in the first place.

I never understood the concept of rechewing a good meal with inferior ingredients.

 

[aaronleland]

It's more like remaking Brokeback Mountain, and throwing a black guy in there.

 

[Auld Phart]

I've seen movies in the last 20+ years that I first saw as silent.

They should have been silent and unseen.

Movie in 1956 named Husbands Beware and remade in 1999 called The Bachelor which was a remake of Buster Keatons 1925 Seven Chances, which was a remake of 3 1904 movies.

Nothing new

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

The Magnificent Seven WAS a remake in the first place.

Yes of the far superior Akira Kurosawa film "The Seven Samurai", which he made in 1954.

I love Kurosawa films, my absolute favourite is "The Bad Sleep Well", which he made in 1960, brilliant stuff:

The Bad Sleep Well - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Synthaholic]

God forbid studios make old movies watchable. They might accidentally throw in good acting and realistic effects.

That's what they should do. But they rarely re-make a classic movie that's better than the original.

One does immediately come to mind, though: 'A Perfect Murder' starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow is better than Hitchcock's 'Dial M For Murder'.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

God forbid studios make old movies watchable. They might accidentally throw in good acting and realistic effects.

That's what they should do. But they rarely re-make a classic movie that's better than the original.

One does immediately come to mind, though: 'A Perfect Murder' starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow is better than Hitchcock's 'Dial M For Murder'.

However Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow are no match for Ray Milland and Grace Kelly, for one thing, Paltrow in a million years could never be as effortlessly elegant as Grace Kelly.

 

[aaronleland]

God forbid studios make old movies watchable. They might accidentally throw in good acting and realistic effects.

That's what they should do. But they rarely re-make a classic movie that's better than the original.

One does immediately come to mind, though: 'A Perfect Murder' starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow is better than Hitchcock's 'Dial M For Murder'.

Old Boy with Josh Brolin wasn't bad.

 

[Auld Phart]

God forbid studios make old movies watchable. They might accidentally throw in good acting and realistic effects.

That's what they should do. But they rarely re-make a classic movie that's better than the original.

One does immediately come to mind, though: 'A Perfect Murder' starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow is better than Hitchcock's 'Dial M For Murder'.

I have nothing against Douglas and Paltrow, and I'm not sure if I saw the movie.

But I find it hard to believe they could have done a better job than Kelly, Cummings and Milland

 

[JoeB131]

The Magnificent Seven WAS a remake in the first place.

Well, no, it was an adaptation. Different setting, different characters, kind of the same basic plot.

 

[Harry Dresden]

It's more like remaking Brokeback Mountain, and throwing a black guy in there.

or a midget.....

 

[JoeB131]

I think the problem is, if you look at movies from that era, they pacing is much too slow for modern audiences. We want out action fast paced and our characters simple.

Lots of reasons for this. One is that movies are an international effort now. They need something that will easily translate to foreign audiences.

 

[Disir]

Yul Brynner was the shizzle. And that is all. Dad is bad there is no other. This is one of my favorite all time movies. There is a small .........tiny.........part of me that wants to see this so they better not screw it up.