Watching The Remake Of Ben Hur On 5.

[Paigntonian]

And it is truly awful. I wonder whether filmmakers know when they have created a dud?

[Buenchico]

Even if directors, producers, actors and crew members don't recognise a flop when they see it, accountants certainly will!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(2016_film)#Reception

;-)

[ToraToraTora]

you cannot improve on perfection, madness.

[Bazile]

There are very few remakes of anything that's any good .

Off the top of my head , The Magnificent seven is an exception

[ToraToraTora]

baz, I hope you mean the M7 as a remake of T7S? I am not aware of an actual remake of TM7 unless you mean the TM7RA and that was a sequel.

[zebo]

I didn't even know that they'd remade Ben Hur, when I saw it on the schedule I assumed it was the original, Stephen Boyd was one of my teenage heartthrobs!

[Bazile]

TTT - the one with Denzel Washington

[Tilly2]

Was the chariot race bit any good? I haven't seen it.

[ToraToraTora]

Baz, first I've heard of that, you reckon it's ok?

[Buenchico]

For Tilly2:

[Sunk]

One of the chariot drivers had a wrist-watch on.
Have they no sense of period?

[Paigntonian]

Truly dreadful.

[Buenchico]

>>> Have they no sense of period?

Well spotted, Sunk. It should, have course, have been a wrist sundial ;-)

[Sunk]