Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Movie review: The Magnificent Seven

Well, I eventually did end up watching this thing. It was not quite as much of a waste of time as I had feared it might be, but it wasn't particularly striking or anything. Very meh. But somewhat better than Apocalypse Now, at the very least.

Most of the movie consists of people shooting at each other, which... eh. In that aspect it was rather similar to a war movie, one of which I rewatched earlier today. 

It takes place in the wild west which like I have mentioned before is not my favorite setting. The actors in it, for the most part, looked rather rugged and rough. Which is not my preferred look. Not to mention the facial hair. There was an abundance of facial hair. This was definitely not one of my favorite Vincent roles. He had this very weird accent in the movie. It completely did not sound like his regular voice at all, which disappointed me because I like his regular voice. He was large and hairy and unattractive looking in this movie. I still like him as an actor, I just don't particularly care for this particular role of his. 

Peter Sarsgaard played the villain in this movie, and although he did have a bit of an accent, some of his regular voice shone through, which I was pleased about. Spoiler: Unfortunately his character got killed by one of the other characters, and even though he was the villain, I was still kind of unhappy that he had to get killed off. Alas. 

One of the characters is a knife thrower and I thought that was interesting and now I kind of want to learn how to throw knives. I wonder how difficult it is. I also wonder if I'd ever theoretically have an occasion to use my knife throwing skills in the event that I learn how to throw knives. 

Although they are only in the background in some of the scenes, I thought that the wild western prostitutes had interesting outfits in this movie. It could be interesting to incorporate some of those fashions into my wardrobe. 

It would be quite something (in a bad way) if current times were like the wild west where everyone had guns and was constantly shooting at people. 

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