Magnificent Seven- Movie Review

[Savage20]

Hell or High Water and No Country For Old Men are modern westerns. Shanghai Noon is not a western.

 

[Savage20]

To me a western needs a main character who lives by his own set of code, morals, and ethics. Lawlessness is a general rule of thumb. The true western focuses on the protagonist(s) as they struggle with themselves to decide what's right and wrong, or to follow what they believe is the right way. The '16 Magnificent Seven had very little character development. It had little to do with the original movies, and the only real memory I have of the new movie is the PC bullshit and feel-good resolutions among the different characters with different backgrounds.

 

[Savage20]

Rover is another good modern western.

 

[Vaquero]

Appaloosa.
That's a western.

 

[Savage20]

Was True Grit just an action movie set in the old west? Splain to me the difference. I thought that was what Westerns were.

both True Grits were indeed westerns. i wouldn't even call either one an action flick

 

[jrbfishn]

Hondo.
Enough said.

sent from an idgit coffeeholic

 

[TheDan]

To me a western needs a main character who lives by his own set of code, morals, and ethics. Lawlessness is a general rule of thumb. The true western focuses on the protagonist(s) as they struggle with themselves to decide what's right and wrong, or to follow what they believe is the right way.

The original Kung Fu is a western.

 

[AustinN4]

There are many, but here are a few favs:
Hombre
Tom Horn
Monte Walsh
Will Penny
The Wild Bunch
Ride The High Country
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Shootist
The Grey Fox
The Revenant

 

[Charlie]

There are many, but here are a few favs:
Hombre
Tom Horn
Monte Walsh
Will Penny
The Wild Bunch
Ride The High Country
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Shootist
The Grey Fox
The Revenant

Great Westerns!

 

[Charlie]

Some of the others listed also great westerns!

 

[ROGER4314]

I'll join this discussion from a different perspective. As a Chicago native, I had absolutely no exposure to what you guys refer to as "Westerns" except for the Saturday afternoon Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers (and Dale Evans), Sky King flicks. All of the flicks that you mentioned are "Westerns" to me! I never sat on a horse, messed with cattle or sat on a tractor. It all looks like Western stuff from my point of view!

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