They're remaking "The Magnificent Seven" ...

[HankB]

. . .
Ok, the remake of "Ben Hur" was pretty good. As was the remake of "The Ten Commandments" (What? No. No one has made a remake since the 60's versions. Those were remakes of silent movies.)

Actually, the 2014 movie "Exodus" (Ridley Scott directed, Christian Bale as Moses) was clearly a remake of Heston's "The Ten Commandments."

It stank so bad, sometimes I can still smell the reek around my TV set.

The various remakes of "The Three Musketeers" don't hold a candle to the one with Gene Kelly.

Bruce Willis' "The Jackal" was a decent movie remake. And his "Last Man Standing" was actually OK if you moved Yojimbo to a hick town in the USA.

I've yet to see a "War of the Worlds" remake better than the one starring Gene Barry . . . the Pendragon version had potential since it was based in the late 19th century like Wells' book, but production values weren't even on a par with what you'd expect from a high school film class.

[Angel Eyes]

Unfortunately, they are remaking Ben Hur. I really wish that was a joke.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%282016_film%29

It ... has been termed a "re-adaptation", "reimagining" and "new interpretation" of the novel.

Oh.


Joy.

[MechAg94]

Actually, the 2014 movie "Exodus" (Ridley Scott directed, Christian Bale as Moses) was clearly a remake of Heston's "The Ten Commandments."

It stank so bad, sometimes I can still smell the reek around my TV set.

The various remakes of "The Three Musketeers" don't hold a candle to the one with Gene Kelly.

Bruce Willis' "The Jackal" was a decent movie remake. And his "Last Man Standing" was actually OK if you moved Yojimbo to a hick town in the USA.

I've yet to see a "War of the Worlds" remake better than the one starring Gene Barry . . . the Pendragon version had potential since it was based in the late 19th century like Wells' book, but production values weren't even on a par with what you'd expect from a high school film class.

If you could filter out certain parts of the War of the Worlds remake, it might be a cool movie.  I would elaborate, but I hate to spoil your fun if you decide to watch it. 

If they had combined it with something like Battle Los Angeles, it might have been a much better movie.

[roo_ster]

It is incredible how good that run of films (Stray Dog to High and Low) by Kurosawa is.  Four of them (Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo) probably belong in the top twenty films ever made, with the others merely superb and including best version of Macbeth ever filmed (Throne of Blood), and the picture that most influenced the most successful movie franchise ever (Hidden Fortress).  Has any director been that good for as long as he was?

Why was this fact kept from me all these years?  I love MacBeth, especially the Orson Welles version. 

[agricola]

Why was this fact kept from me all these years?  I love MacBeth, especially the Orson Welles version. 

It is well worth a viewing, if for no other reason than to see Mifune's death scene.