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Bruce Broughton in TOMBSTONE mode.
That (unfortunately) won't happen in today's moviemaking.
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Nov 19, 2018 - 5:53 PM
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Kylo Ren
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A "jest?" Hold on, Googling.....
Nope, not joking, I'm dead serious. I honestly don't rate most films from the 60s (the ones I've seen) at all, especially American Westerns.
Now, Spaghetti Westerns on the other hand? I love them.
Sergio Leone made some great ones (masterpieces even), but I largely just love the majority of the genre, most being highly enjoyable retro trash films that always manage to hold ones attention. Many of the Spaghetti Westerns I know also happen to have kick ass Morricone styled music to accompany them, if not they literally have the man himself.
I've no reason to ever object to that. Morricone revolutionized, and changed for the better the old fashioned Western sound back then. His influence is still very predominant today, especially with Zimmer.
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As an aficionado of the genre, I can confidently tell you that there are many great westerns of the 50s and 60s...but I’ll agree with you that The Magnificent Seven is not one of them (best element is Eli Wallach as the villain, but it’s nothing on his Tuco character for Leone some years later).
I know it’s sacrilege but I too found the Denzel Washington remake more engaging...though there were a few modifications that bugged me about it.
Of course, the *real* original version is Akira Kurosawa‘s Seven Samurai, a far better movie than any Magnificent Seven.
Yavar
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I find the Denzel Washington remake to be ok, but no more. The characters were not particularly well introduced, and the fact that Washington's character had an axe to grind with the baddie made the entire premise less interesting. The original Magnificen Seven is considerably more engaging. But the Seven Samurai is the best of the three.
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John Debney should get it. What will happen: some terrible choice.
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And what a brave choice that would be, joking aside.
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