The Magnificent Seven (2016)

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4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What do you get when you take the classic Western remake of a Japanese film about honor, courage, and justice,then add modern film making magic, plus Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Ethan Hawke to the mix? A sum that is less than it's parts, that's what. Enjoy our spoiler-free review of the movie and a discussion of upcoming movies and trailers on the house, but if you want to listen to us crack wise on D'Onofrio and Hawke's accents, you'll have to be a Club Member to gain access to our full spoiler podcast. Why not join today? It's quick, easy, and helps support our independent podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hey, everybody, welcome to another first run bald movies the only
0:24.8	podcast that goes out and sees a movie on Thursday night that can't be true in
0:31.1	the in the tri county area in Ohio still that's dubious
0:38.2	uh... tonight we went to see magnificent seven the remake of the classic Western of the same name, which itself was a reimagining of the classic Akira Kurosawa movie, Seven Samurai.
0:52.0	What did you think of this movie, Jim?
0:55.0	It was good. It was entertaining. I don't know. I don't have a special affinity necessarily for Westerns. It's kind of hard for me to get into him sometimes but yeah
1:06.4	It entertained me okay over the course of how many hours like eight hours is that how long it was? Are you saying it was too long? I don't know it felt like it was a little long but then again I had to go the bathroom half the time so
1:20.5	Oh, see I that that can't skew your thing I yeah I feel like that I don't
1:26.9	know you say it's all you say it's good I'm going to go ahead and say that I
1:31.2	thought it was aggressively average yeah I say that I thought it was aggressively average. Yeah. I thought that I I feel like I've
1:35.4	seen five better Westerns this year. This year? Last one I can remember is true grit that I thought was better. Well, we saw Liberty Valence. is
1:45.0	better that I thought was better.
1:46.0	Well, okay, yeah,
1:48.0	you know the Uma is better. We've seen this year, not that come out this year.
1:51.0	Oh, no, no, yeah yeah that I've seen it yeah yeah
1:52.9	Bon tomahawk is better. I know I've seen I know I've seen a couple more but
1:59.2	right now you're talking about the classics. The searchers right right? Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying, but like I haven't seen those movies, and this is a remake of a classic. And I feel like that if you're going to make remake a classic like this, you've got a better excuse than the fact that you got to
2:13.2	Denzel Washington at Chris Pratt and Vincent de Onfrio and Ethan Hawk to say yeah
2:19.2	we'll do it because I don't know like it's it's fine. It's fine, but like I feel like I don't know.
2:26.4	Yeah, I mean I'll say I did not want to go see this movie tonight because I don't care about
2:32.4	Magnits and Seven or Westerns in general but you know I didn't walk away from it
2:37.7	having not enjoyed myself that's what said I'm I'm fine with it. This is just like I this is this my review is like eating a can of
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