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Seven Samurai (1954)

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A pretty good movie
by The_MOW in The_MOW Blog

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""The Seven Samurai" is a tediously long movie (about 3 hours and 30 minutes in length) about a village of farmers who hire a small band of samurai to defend their village from a much larger group of bandits. The film is really slow at the beginning, and it takes a long time to introduce the samurais. However, once they arrive at the village the pace of the movie picks up a bit. Some of the acting is a bit over-the-top and hard to believe, but most of that is the characters that are there for comic relief. Many others appear to be trying to hard in their acting and come across as poor performances. Personally, I just couldn't get into the main characters enough to feel anything when some were either killed or injured. The visuals are done well, with only a few scenes that don't come across well due to what little light there is. The fighting scenes, and there are a lot of them, are nicely done and edited very well. Overall, "The Seven Samurai" is a pretty good movie that is worth a ... " [More]

Almost as Good as The Magnifice ...
by smithco in My Ponderings on Cinema

loved it.

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"I finally saw Seven Samurai. It is undoubtably a great film. Though by the intermission came around, I was thinking that it is not as good as The Magnificent Seven (1960) A lot of people may want to fit my neck for a rope for stating that, but that's what I was thinking. For me, comparing the two is an excercise in comparing great works. I hope that my opinion here is not constued as a dislike for Kuosawa's masterpiece. It seemed to me that The Magnificent Seven surpassed Seven Samurai in four areas. First is the pacing. I doubt anyone would notice if forty minutes were cut from Seven Samurai. There's a lot of scenes of people staring at each other, scenes that repeated exposition of the story, and a lot of extraneous battle preperation scenes. Generally, the pacing of The Magnificent Seven is a lot tighter: the same story is told just as effectively in much less time. Second is the dialogue. The snappy banter of the characters in The Magnificent Seven is very entertaining ... " [More]

FilmCouch #22
by paul in paul on spout.com

loved it.

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"Remakes: The Weinsteins are remaking Seven Samurai. Is it sacrilege? What if Pulp Fiction and The Matrix were remakes? We speculate the originals: Pulp Fiction (1975), The Dot-Matrix (1971). Movies remaking (and reshaping) history: Once Upon a Time in America, The New World, The Patriot and more. Download FilmCouch #22 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday.

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"Movie theater chains in India refused to screen The Simpsons Movie over the weekend — and, surprisingly, it had nothing to do with outrage over Apu. Warner Brothers India, which is distributing the Fox film in that country, apparently demanded that Indian multiplexes book Simpsons on multiple screens, which would have squeezed out homegrown content. In response, seven leading theater chains declined to run the Fox film at all, and even upped the ante by pulling WB’s latest Harry Potter pic from screens. Facing a projected loss of nearly $100,000 for the weekend, WB workd out a compromise, and Simpsons should open on some Indian screens today. After staying on in order to see through a number of “very personal projects” including Rush Hour 3 (yes, seriously), long-time New Line marketing exec Russell Schwartz has confirmed that he’s [More]

Brilliant
by divot in divot Blog

loved it.

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"This is the best movie I have ever seen. It has everything a motion picture should have. It is epic on a miniature scale (a difficult feat to pull off so smoothly). It is tragic. It is funny. It is historically accurate (as far as depicting the time and lifestyle). It is also a very lengthy film considering the era in which it was made, but this is hardly even noticeable while watching it. If there was only one DVD I could have for the rest of my life......this would probably be it. " [More]

The Great Movies: Seven Samurai
by erico_77375 in erico_77375 Blog

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"It's impossible to think of modern film today without thinking of Akira Kurosawa. He changed so many of the rules not only of filmmaking, but of storytelling in his films, taking us into realms not only of the visual, but of the emotional ranges few have ever ventured and never with the same kind of boldness. Anyone who has ever seen more than one of this master filmmaker's films can tell you there is never just one that is his greatest. But if I were tortured into it, I would have to say it would be Seven Samurai.This film has a plot that guides us through the story, but is not bound to it. There is a history that is never lectured, but is visible all the same. This is morality tale as well as an adventure. This is an epic that didn't play by the rules of epics and inspired filmmakers around the world to do the same. We first see a village in bitter turmoil. They can't eat because bandits take their food. They want to fight back, but they don't know how too. On ... " [More]

Big Screen Kurosawa
by chesterfilms in chesterfilms Blog

loved it.

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"So I just saw this on the big screen, and It just solidifies this as a masterpiece to me. What else can be said about this film that hasn't already been said thousands of times before. Let me just say that seeing this in the theater is a completely different experience. Everything from Kurosawa's framing, composition, and even the most minor directing choices are so much more apparent and hard hitting when they are seen larger than life. If you ever get a chance to see this in a theater, don't be foolish enough to pass it up! " [More]

FilmCouch #22
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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