Seven Samurai rules!
DVD rules!
This forum rules!
Remakes of great movies…ah, forget it!
Amitabha!
We are trained in wushu; we must protect the Temple!
There is already an American remake of this film.
It’s called The Magnificent Seven 
don’t tell me
Will Miramax be casting seven white guys in this?
Yul Brenner was da MAN!!!
Will Miramax be casting seven white guys in this?
I don’t think so. But at least it’s not Tom Cruise. His next film is The Last Samurai.
Hopefully it will be a better 2nd round remake than the godawful “Last Man Standing”.
Dilute & Pollute
Tell me one Hollywood film that ain’t a remake of a good film… haha!
-David
u cant beat the original… no way
dawood
Oh dear, here we go..
I want Better sound effects.
Just watched The Magnificent Seven yesterday! There is no way a remake could be better!
seven samurai was very good, a bit long but none the less a good movie. I love the untalented samurai with the huge sword, I want his sword.
remakes…
They need to remake Enter the Dragon next…:rolleyes:
Last Man Standing… was Yojimbo…
Yojimbo has been done a couple of times. Last Man Standing was one, but also The Bodyguard (Kevin Kostner) was heavily influenced by Yojimbo, which would later be remade into The Bodyguard from Beijing with Jet Li.
Several scenes from Kurosawa movies also made their way into the first Star Wars series. The whole cantina scene comes from a street fight scene in Sanjuro (the sequel to Yojimbo).
Obi-Wan Kenobi was based off of Toshiro Mifune’s Samurai character, and Mifune himself was almost cast in the part.
One could argue that Star Wars (A New Hope) is merely a remake of the Hidden Fortress.
No mention of A Fistful of Dollars for Yojimbo remakes? I can’t be the only one here who likes spaghetti!
Actually, Yojimbo has an American novel by Dashiell Hammett as its source. I think I remember seeing somewhere recently that someone was going to try to adapt <I>Red Harvest</i> to a movie again, this time in a sticking closely to the source material.
Could be good, if they keep Bruce Willis and Walter Hill away from it.
I fully agree that The Magnificent Seven is a truly worthy remake, and that Star Wars is clearly indebted to The Hidden Fortress.
I’m developing a real fondness for old westerns recently. Johnny Guitar ran on TCM last night and totally kicked my ass. Not as great as The Wild Bunch, but still really good.
The Outlaw Josey Wales:cool: gotta love the old dude:cool:
Unusually for me, not anti-USA today…
The last remake I saw was a recent Jet Li thing based on the Japanese ‘Sword of Vengeance’ about a father and son who go to kill an entire samurai clan. Jet Li’s film was complete drivel. I saw the original last night and it was awesome despite gratuitous gore.
Mag 7 is a good film but, to tell the truth, despite seeing it 2 or 3 times, I can’t remember anything about it nor who starred in it or their characters. 7 Samurai, on the other hand, stayed with me after one viewing.
-David
the seven samurai and yojimbo have both been remade more times than i can count. so… like, seven.
i’ve seen the magnificent seven done with cowboys, samurai, aliens, gladiators, martin short…
as for yojimbo, there’s last man standing (which i quite liked), fist full of dollars (also liked), the warrior and the sorceress (david carradine travesty), some scifi version with rutger hauer and a bunch of cyborgs (directed by albert pyun)…
what’s another remake if it’s done well? fine with me. if it’s done poorly… there’s still a real good chance that it’ll be fine with me.
