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No iconic musical theme, no Mexican setting with Bandidos, typical "rich white guy" villains.


No charismatic stars like McQueen, Brynner, Bronson, Coburn. How could they even have hoped to compete with the 1960 version? I won't discuss the original Samurai version by Kurosawa, but when you put the 1960 version on and hear the epic Bernstein music and see the hearse scene with Brynner and McQueen, and the knife-throwing scene with James Coburn, you get chills down your spine.

This one is flat and insipid. Even the late-1960s sequels are miles above this reboot. Even the 1990s TV show is better. Hell, even the low-budget ripoffs like "Battle Beyond the Stars" and "The Seven Magnificent Gladiators" do a better job capturing the spirit of the 1960 story. This reboot is almost forgotten only 5 years after release and justly so.

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Far more charismatic people than the previous. Though I like the original very much, they are different movies. The 7 Samurai is a different movie. Disregard it. The music is perfectly fine. The Coburn knife throw scene is good but no better than any other.

I'm sorry that you have a beef against Hispanic people and that "Rich white guys" are awesome. I think they're great too. I remember the time that Mexican Banditos screwed over my family, oh wait, I got that wrong. It was rich white guys the screwed my housing, screwed my retirement, screwed up everything in this current world we live in. I thought it was banditos but I guess I was wrong.

Common dude, we're not crapping on Hispanic people any more. Get with the times. Let's blame everything on Aleutian Islanders now. That sounds fun.

If you have a beef with Denzel, I'm sorry. He does a good job. I would warrant that he does a better job than Brynner for the character he's playing. I say this because I love Yul Brynner, but I think Denzel plays the character he was asked to. Yul Brynner is kind of a one trick pony.

Say what you want about Chris Pratt but the line about one eyed jacks sells the entire character. I also have good luck with one eyed jacks. Also red 2's in my case.

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You're crazy. A beef with Hispanic people? Where the hell do you get that? My wife is Hispanic.

Mexican banditos are more interesting villains than generic, duster-clad gunslingers. A Mexican village looks cooler than a generic Western town. As I recall, the people the 1960 Magnificent Seven were protecting, and two members of the Magnificent Seven themselves were Hispanic.

Jump down off the PC high-horse, dude. It makes you sound so full of crap. And quit whining. Just because you sound off like you failed at life, it's no reason to blame rich white people for your own mistakes.

And the nonentities of the remake are more charismatic than McQueen, Coburn, Bronson, Brynner, et. al? Wow. Just wow.

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LOL Ponies!!1

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LOL Ponies!!1


I'm beginning to understand the situation now. Your obsession with ponies proves it. Only a Brony could think that way. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GbyOOthMvnw/maxresdefault.jpg

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