Ain’t gonna lie to you: it looks damned spiffy.
You got guns, wisecracks, bows, knives, dynamite, and Gatling Guns. All we need now is a cast who had a blast making this flick and you’ve got some primo popcorn cinema going on, there. I’m down with that, if so.
This meets my needs.
Anyone else getting a serious Firefly “Heart of Gold” vibe here?
Thought it seemed familiar…
(twitch) Look, this movie looks decent and might cause me to break my current “not seeing any more remakes” pledge, but to the folks making the trailer? The original theme song is instantly recognizable and is regarded as a classic piece of film score. Use the damn thing.
.
Heck, use The Clash’s “Magnificent Seven.” It’d fit the Western theme just as well as Royal Deluxe’s song does.
Given that this is Hollywood, there may be rights issues.
I guess I’m in the minority on this one, but while it looks reasonably ok (by current Hollywood standards), I’m very uncomfortable with the direct association with the 1960 John Sturges movie. The cartoonish nature of some of the samurai, the goofily high levels of firepower, the careful ethnic representation, the gratuitously heaving bosoms (well, maybe the last one is not necessarily a bad thing), it just makes me wish that this were not called “The Magnificent Seven.” Call it anything else: call it A Bug’s Life, call it The Three Amigos, call it 13 Assassins or Saving General Yang or The Professionals. But not The Magnificent Seven. Also, get off my lawn, you dern kids.