The Buckets by Greg Cravens for May 31, 2024

Wanna know how many “Magnificent Seven” movies there are?

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Return of the Seven (1966)

Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)

The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Which is a remake of another famous movie of the 1950s era, Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

There is even Samurai 7, a 2004 anime television series.

It’s the same with music these days. A newer group remakes an old song and the kids don’t believe it was already done, sometimes 50 years ago!

Remakes don’t bother me much.. although with some stories it works better than others. One movie remake I haven’t watched is Titanic. It’s hard to make “big ship sails… hits iceberg… sinks…” into much more than exactly that.

And, how many versions of The Virginian were made? a stage play 1 year after the book came out, 6 movies (2 were silent films,) and a long running TV series. Choose your favorite. Mine is the 2000 Bill Pullman version.

nothing new in movies, no original ideas anymore, just remakes or sequels.

What about the Incredible Hulk films. Two of them came out really close to one another

Remakes don’t bother me. Because I see movies so rarely, I probably didn’t see any of the earlier versions.

George Lucas would still be tweaking his six movies if he hadn’t sold everything to Disney. Except the merchandise rights.

I’m laughing because the kid had never heard of the original until ‘just now,’ but knew it (which he had never heard of) came out five years before he was born…

Ha! Hopefully they’ll get it right someday!

A Star is Born is up to 4

Final version? No, after about 10 – 15 years it will once again be remade.

Some of the time the remake turns out better because they capabilities they didn’t have before. But I’m not a big fan of the new Shogun series. It’s grittier, but I can’t get behind the lead character.

It seems “The Hound of the Baskervilles” might be the winner for number of remakes. Over 30?