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The Magnificent Seven (2016)
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Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
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Haley Bennett's performance and direction was spectacular but the plot was stupid. The cast all did a good job. The sets were simpleton. Obviously not filmed in gold country.
A poor and needless remake that ups the body count but not the quality.Inferior in every way to the Bryner/McQueen/Coburn version but probably enjoyable to the Transformers generation
'The Magnificent Seven' is perhaps an unnecessary remake - almost 56 years, to the day - but it's just as good as the original. Still the same simple premise - a Western, where a small town is being overthrown by a villain, so they hire a bunch (well, seven, to be precise!) of drifters to help them fight to save the town. It's still set in the 19th century, but the main differences are that the town's not in Mexico this time, and there's much more focus on the church (not necessarily religion).The leader this time is Chisolm (Washington), a bounty hunter (Yul Brenner's character), with Faraday (Pratt) a wise-cracking gunslinger (Steve McQueen's character), Goodnight (Hawke) a former sharpshooter, Billy (Lee) a knife-master, Vasquez (Garcia-Rulfo) the Mexican, Red Harvest (Sensmeier) the Comanche and Horne (D'Onofrio) - the best character - as the mountain man. Still no real motivation for them to help the town is given, but let's go with it anyway. Sarsgaard is good as Bogue, infusing him with plenty of contempt and no empathy. Bennett is OK, but mostly a token female character.Does what a good Western should - plenty of shoot-outs, sweeping vistas, explosions, horses riding and jumping, staring from under hat brims, and a healthy death toll! Has a few slow points in the first half, but the battle for the final 30min or so is done very well. Doesn't necessarily add to the original, but nor does it do it a disservice. A straight-down-the-line 3.5.
There was a guy: Akira Kurosawa. He made some films. Many of them were outstanding. Who cares. Millenials cannot relate to "outstanding". What we want to do is take Kurosawa's basic story, but turn it into "DIVERSITY HIRE 7". Millenials can relate to DIVERSITY HIRES. They've had that BS shoved down their throats for the last 20 years. Then we're going to make sure the DIVERSITY HIRE 7 have no more depth & as much bluster as any "COMIC BOOK 7" would have. Millenials can relate to COMIC BOOK movies. They've also had those shoved down their throats for the last 20 years. But we're not done yet. We have to make sure to give zero reason why any of these COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS would possibly join the "7". Give a reason & the millennials may have to "think". Millenials hate to think. OK, almost done. To top it off, the leader, the #1 of the 7. Denzel. We make his character an amalgam of Clint Eastwood characters. That way, if any non-millennials watch this film they'll feel a faint familiarity. Oh wait, will the familiarity breed contempt?