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Winston T. Boogie

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Directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ethan-hawke-joining-denzel-washington-778557


Well, it's a western and not a lot of those get made anymore.


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Assuming this actually happens and that any of these people are involved, that's a good cast and a good B-movie director. And I don't mean 'B-movie' as a knock, just that Fuqua has done well with smaller action movies.
 

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There's remakes that I like and I remakes that I hate but the one thing I do think is good about all remakes is that it gives some attention to the original movie. Not that the general public is going to stream The Magnificent Seven on Netflix but I do think that younger movie fans or those who just missed the original all these years will now check it out and enjoy a really good movie.
 

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Except if they watch the old film after watching the new one they will say "That's boring and slow!" because the editing back then was not such that it seemed to be trying to induce an epileptic seizure.
 

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Lessee, do I want to watch The Magnificent Seven:


Directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, James Coburn and Charles Bronson?


Or:


Directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke?


(Probably with a rock/techno title song)


Hmmm.....


Final thought: You'd think Denzel Washington would have learned his lesson about remaking classics with his thudding versions of The Manchurian Candidate and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Maybe he's going for a trilogy -- or maybe The Equalizer makes three and he's going for a tetrology.
 

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I also find when asking younger people if they saw the original of a remake their answer is usually "I had no idea this was a remake"

I'm sure that will be the general case with this movie as well.

Reggie W said:
Except if they watch the old film after watching the new one they will say "That's boring and slow!" because the editing back then was not such that it seemed to be trying to induce an epileptic seizure.
 

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I wonder if they will re-use the best feature of the original-the Elmer Bernstein score-as Scorsese did with Bernard Hermann's score in his remake of Cape Fear?
 

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Randy Korstick said:
I also find when asking younger people if they saw the original of a remake their answer is usually "I had no idea this was a remake"

I'm sure that will be the general case with this movie as well.

My daughter and her friends went to see THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN at a free screening in Bryant Park in Manhattan, without any prompting from me. I was proud of her...until she started going on about the film's "homoerotic" content. I tried to explain "male camaraderie" to her, a concept apparently unknown to her feminist role models, whoever they may be.
 

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It is more than a little ridiculous that the content of older films is now constantly recontextualized and deemed inappropriate, racist, insensitive, homoerotic, and in general politically incorrect...basically this kind of thing ends in well...you know...banning and burning things.
 

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