Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
It's about time the Magnificent Seven was re-made!
I love the concept of a group of rogues who are grossly outnumbered overcoming the odds and winning the day. The original still holds up as a decent movie. Watched it with my kids (ages 8-11) the other day and despite the absence of bodily function humor, special fx and talking animals, they really liked it! But it's been fifty years (!) since the original came out and no one's tried to re-do it. I say it's about time someone did! Who would you cast as the Seven and as the villain Calvera? |
The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai.
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Originally Posted by PumaMan (Post 680812)
The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai.
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Originally Posted by wintertriangles (Post 680833)
NO WAY ARE U SRS yeah man it was
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Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
*serious, but the lower-cased is my own response
I was just foreshadowing, figured I'd get that conversation over with... :p |
Originally Posted by wintertriangles (Post 680840)
I was just foreshadowing, figured I'd get that conversation over with... :p
In my opinion, most remakes are awful. |
Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
Mag Seven is pointless to begin with.
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Originally Posted by planet news (Post 680844)
Mag Seven is pointless to begin with.
In my opinion, most remakes are awful.
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Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
Someone started a thread saying Arnold & Stallone expanded the action genre more than Bronson & McQueen..
So does that mean if they make a new Mag-7 movie, Arnold & Stallone will be in it? Ohh wait!! maybe they'll set it in the modern day. Instead of cowboys, they could be Mercenaries. Maybe call it something like.... THE EXPENDABLES! It's best if some movies are left in the past untouched. |
Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
That thread is basically about semantics. There is no "right" or wrong" answer, but I think people should stick to their guns about their opinions. My problem is that I don't seem to have an opinion because it's a vague topic and/or I have nothing to say about it. We can certainly start a McQueen/Marvin/Bronson/Coburn thread but that would probably also have to allow others in. :cool:
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Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
We have a thread about better remakes. I think most people start with The Thing and The Fly but there are many others.
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Originally Posted by PumaMan (Post 680852)
There must be a remake out there that is better than the original. Can someone post one? I'll try to find one also.
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Originally Posted by PumaMan (Post 680852)
There must be a remake out there that is better than the original. Can someone post one? I'll try to find one also.
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ive posted this somewhere else...but for your benefit puma...I warn you, the delivery of the lines are pretty brutal when compared to de niro and pacino's handling of the material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auTi6hrceyI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTNNjRuqbE&feature=related |
Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
Payback wasn't better than the original, but it was certainly as good as Point Blank.
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Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
But in all truth, The Maltese Falcon (1941) is the best remake ever, especially if you don't like Peter Jackson's King Kong. (I do.)
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>most remakes are awful
Seems that way. I made the "mistake" of watching A Story of Floating Weeds AFTER Floating Weeds, and it instantly struck me as better. I think it might have been the musical score (which has no strict connection to the film... it coulda been anything). ASoFW brought me close to tears where FW just didn't at all. Or maybe 'cause I just watched it, so I felt it even more the second time. Regardless, I'd have a hard time saying that FW is better than the original even though it seems obviously better, and is probably Ozu's most successful film. There's just "something about" the original that gets to me. The cinematography is way different in it, and of course there is no offset color scheme. Dunno if Ozu just works better in B&W? Dunno if remakes never work as good as the originals since they are "taken away" from the time when they were first made. They loose their fundamental context in a way. |
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I kinda like the 76' Kong version with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange.
I'm partial to the Cape Fear remake as well. Which isn't to say the original is a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination. |
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I like Peter Jackson's King Kong a lot, But he just made it a bit too long, atleast 15 minutes should have been left out before Kong makes an appearance.
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Re: Remake of "The Magnificent Seven" - it's about time!
^ Oh sh-
That movie was awesome. Yeah... I'd easily say it is better. I mean c'mon! |
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