New 'magnificent seven' movie

[mikeymikec]

This feels a bit weird... a remake, of a remake, of a non-hollywood original.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404435/

It makes me think of that story that David Bowie told when he played 'The Man Who Sold The World' on MTV Unplugged and someone was saying "kudos for you for covering Cobain"

It also makes me think of this story, but with regard to the originality of hollywood films:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

(ie. remakes all the way down)

 

[MongGrel]

It makes me think of that story that David Bowie told when he played 'The Man Who Sold The World' on MTV Unplugged and someone was saying "kudos for you for covering Cobain"

I'd never heard that one. that in itself was pretty funny

 

[destrekor]

Turtles!

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm surprised they didn't get Andrew "Hates Mondays" Garfield for this. And Chris Pine.

Still, it could be good. The anime Samurai 7 was a decent swords & mecha remake.

 

[DigDog]

i've never watched the Yul Brinner version; guess i should get that done, it's been what, 40 years?
anyway, afaik Magnificent is only inspired by 7Samurais, so, it's more like a reboot than anything.

what could go wrong.