Are Remakes a Recent Phenomena ??

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I grew up in the 70's and 80's and i don't remember any remakes from the 50's and 60's

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I grew up during the same time. Except for John Carpenter's 1982 remake of "The Thing", I don't recall any others...although I bet there are a few...

I feel like CGI / technology has changed the mindset of the Hollywood producer. For the most part, what genre of movies are getting remade?

Sci-Fi and Horror....and then comedies

I know there are a few here and there, but how many dramas are getting rehashed.

CGI has given the truly unoriginal a new lease

Since this is a remake thread, I'm going to put this here.

The original 3:10 to Yuma is on TCM today.

TCM has been showing Westerns all month.

All day today they've got Glenn Ford Westerns.

Day Of The Evil Gun (1968)
Last Challenge, The (1967)
Rounders, The (1965)
Sheepman, The (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956)

At 7:00 pm they start with John Wayne ones.

Red River (1948)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Chisum (1970)
McLintock! (1963)

TCM schedule

Anyone else wish they'd start remaking some of these old Westerns? Some of the less serious ones like The Rounders could easily be made. If they can make and remake all of these super hero movies, Westerns with just as much action could be made. Keeping them from becoming a sh*t show like Wild, Wild West would be my biggest concern.

Was thinking remaking some of the John Wayne ones might be hard, because I can't think of anyone that could fill those shoes. The ones where he has buddies, ElDorado, Rio Lobo, The War Wagon, even Sons of Katie Elder wouldn't be that hard.

Just about any Western with "buddies" could be remade. Hopefully they could keep themselves from CGI'ing them up.

ETA:
I hope The Magnificent Seven does really well and we see more of them!

I mean there have always been remakes. Sabrina was a remake. Oceans 11 was a remake (and the Clooney version was far better than the Sinatra version). Others that come to mind are Thomas Crown Affair, Guess Who(s Coming to Dinner). If I'm not mistaken, the Warren Beatty version of Heaven Can Wait was a remake of a movie from the 50s, and then itself was remade with Chris Rock. How many different versions of Its A Wonderful Life have you seen? A Christmas Carol?

What's changed is pop culture. We are as far from Ghostbusters now as Marty was from his parents in BTTF. The difference is these movies are ingrained in our collective reference whereas most movies from the 50s are not. And most of the time it's the actors that are responsible. Don't believe me? Go watch some of Eric Stoltzs footage as Marty Mcfly.

Imagine NBC remaking Seinfeld with a gender reversed cast. Seinfeld references are so ingrained in daily speech people say them without even realizing it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

So to me, it's one thing to remake an idea that's been made before. Hollywood does it all the time. But it's something else to recycle a movie that's very much current. It's lazy.

Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962 with Marlon Brando was remade in 1984 with Mel Gibson. The 1962 version was a remake of the earlier 1935 film with Clark Gable (which I believe was the best of the three).

Ben Hur was a silent movie then remade in the 50's as was the 10 Commandments. But yeah this rehash of old movies and tv shows is overall pretty pathetic. While there are exceptions (True Grit) overall the remakes are lacking.

Remakes have been occurring for millenia.

I feel there is a big difference betweeen remakes or reboots of classic films based off historical records or novels /stories etc...


It's one thing to do a different take on Ben Hur or Noah or even Dracula and Frankenstein than three reboots of Batman or Spiderman.

Some stories can be remade multiple times due to the deepness and structure of the story.

If the depth of the story can sustain "remakes or reboots" than ok. But some stories only need to be told once