billsekerak Reviews

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Crap with a Capitol C

[1/10 · 6 October 2016]

By twisting the plot of the original film ,which itself was a Westernized version of Kurasowas Seven Samuria ,they ruined the movie.

The idiots took a great morality play and turned it into nothing more than a politically correct statement. This is not entertainment , it's left wing propaganda.

By changing the bad guy from a bandit leader preying on a helpless village into an evil businessman/ developer/ polluter trying to take advantage of a helpless middle class town they've hit on every liberal agenda except climate change and gun control.

By including diversity with a cast that represents every race except the aboriginal Japanese Anui they even got that commandment in.

I really don't mind that so much, in fact I love most of Denzel's work, but it was enough to make it the last straw.

What's so disappointing is that the cast IS great but the fundamental changes ruined the film completely.

What moron decided to make this about the evils of Capitalism I can only speculate that perhaps the producer was Michael Moore or that high priest of the environmental movement Leonardo Dicaprio or both ?

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Crap with a capital C

[1/10 · 2 October 2016]

The movie was ruined by changing the premise of the original which was as take off of Kurasowa's Seven Samurai.

A small country village suffers annually from a cruel leader of a bandit gang and his men that plunders the village at harvest time. Eventually with trepidation the village elders decide enough is enough so they scrape together what little money they have hidden away and go to a large town seeking to hire ronin ( leaderless Samurai for hire ) . Although they have little money they find one brave samurai who decides he will fight for them and he seeks out other skilled ronin willing to help. He finally finds seven and they all go to the village and prepare to fight the bandits and their evil leader. The story progresses from there.

The Original Wextern version is exactly the same just substitute Japan to the Amercan West and the Japanese bandits become Mexican banditos preying on a small Mexican farming village and substitute gunfighter so for ronin ( samurai ) and that's it.

The remake becomes politically correct by substituting an evil developer polluting the town of hapless and helpless gringos.

Then throw in a large dash of diversity by having the seven represent every race except Aunui ( Japanese aboriginal people ) .

Now I really don't care about that too much , I love Denzels work normally, but it was too much after the big change I mentioned first. The straw so to speak.

This could have been, should have been, a great movie especially because of a great cast. That's what's so sad, so disappointing.

They just had to make it a political statement instead of allowing it to be the morality play as it was first done by Kurosawa and again with Yul Brenner, Steve McQeueen etc.

The director did it with The Equalizer why not with this film ? Was the producer that great anti-Capitalists and ecologist expert Leonardo DiCaprio ? Or what ?

Somebody please make a decent Western again ! Because this crap sure isn't any good at all.