Don't Remake Ever! - Page 5

Demdike@Cult Labs · #41 1st May 2015, 10:40 PM

I see Marty's coming back with De Niro and Pesci in The Irishman.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #42 1st May 2015, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampix

You're quite right, The Magnificent Seven is a remake of The Seven Samurai, but it's also a classic Hollywood western with a fantastic cast (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, etc) and brilliant score. If they tried to remake this as a western nowadays I just don't think it would work because of the factors that make John Sturges' film so good.

In a way i sort of agree. However the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit were both in my opinion better than the originals so i'd be open to the idea.

I also think Hollywood still makes very good westerns - The Missing, The Assassination of Jesse James, Open Range, Appaloosa and most of Seraphim Falls - are just a few examples.

JunkMonkey · #43 4th May 2015, 01:16 AM

I think Invasion of the Body Snatchers should be remade. ..every ten years. It's been remade 4 times now and each time it's about something different. About that decade's preoccupations and perceived threats.

The first one is a masterpiece of cold war paranoia, the second is a pretty damn good movie about cults and the alienation of modern cities (and it has that great downbeat ending with Donald Sutherland doing 'The Point'), the third I haven't seen but is highly regarded by some and appears to be about The Military, secret weapons and pollution, and then there's the 2007 version which is about Nicole Kidman getting 17 million dollars to appear in a movie.

The first two adaptation ditch the novels pretty crappy WTF? cop out ending (the invading pods get fed up and float back off into space) and are better for it, the third (from what I've read) has an unsettlingly ambiguous "where're think you're going to run to?" ending, and the last has the combined scientists of the world pulling a vaccine out of their collective arses (in the nick of time) and crop spraying the world back to unhappiness once again, and you know what? It's shit.

Can't wait to see what the next version is about.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs · #44 4th May 2015, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I see Marty's coming back with De Niro and Pesci in The Irishman.

I think that's the adaptation of I Heard You Paint Houses, which I've had for several months but haven't had a chance to read yet. When my assignments are handed in later this month, it's probably going to be the first book I read.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs · #45 4th May 2015, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

In a way i sort of agree. However the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit were both in my opinion better than the originals so i'd be open to the idea.

I also think Hollywood still makes very good westerns - The Missing, The Assassination of Jesse James, Open Range, Appaloosa and most of Seraphim Falls - are just a few examples.

Don't forget the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men and Brokeback Mountain, which should have won the Best Picture Oscar, and are both brilliant.

Tommy Lee Jones is a really good director, seemingly specialising in westerns, as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is terrific and I have high hopes for The Homesman, which is high priority on my Lovefilm rental queue at the moment.