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The Magnificent Seven (2016)
IT CERTAINLY DESERVES MORE THAN A 6,9 !!!
I didn't see it in 2016 but I saw the famous one when it came out back in the early sisxties...but then,I was just a little girl and couldn't grasp a lot.Love NETFLIX!!!Now that I am retired and live in a small coast city I don't go to the teather anymore but thanks to NETFLIX I've seen a lot of good stuff in so many different languages too,and that is a plus!
The Magnificent Seven 2016 certainly provided excellent entertainment!Loved it! The plot was there:dormant heroes to be awoken and to bring about havoc!!!
I found everything finely orchestrated and one by one of the participants of the odyssey did get their own reason for being there:they were doing nothing and there was money and action involved...Now,Denzel was just being Denzel.Reliable.Perfect.Ethan Hawk borrowed Val Kilmer's excelent Doc Holliday from Tombstone!!!Imediately recognised...but it fit ok.The Asian guy was in every gesture minimal and coherent...and fast! Vincent D'onofrio!!! Love the actor in every act and he also borrowed from Maury Chaykin,the adorable nuts in For A Less Ordinary Life,1996...Fantastic performance then by the deceased actor and by D'Onofrio...The Mexican,maybe had little exposure,and then Chris Pratt-so charismatic!!!! and we have the red skin boy.All westerns had to have indians,cowboys,saloons,and...a thug.Now we have to recognize the impressively splendid performance of Peter Sarsgaard,the thug.I hadn't seen him for some time and I found him a little bit too thin and now I know he loves to run,but it suited very well to the role.We had a man looking always mad,and under the influence lets say,opium or laudanum,much used those days...and he uttered his sayings in modulating his voice...Bravo Peter Sarsgaard! But hey,he is not the most evil criminal in movies at all!!!but I liked his performance!!!
I have never seen Mr.Kurosawa's Seven Samurais,from whch this one is inspired,but I have to confess that back in the 60's,his favorite actor was Toshiro Mifune and I was afraid of that one! Westerns were great back then and I wonder if The Duke wouldn't fit in the Denzel's/Brynner's role...of course he would!
The eternal,magic,forte,grand music track is immortalized and since the first key we know what is it...Gave 10.Couldn't give less!!!
La casa de las flores (2018)
FREE AT LAST!!!!
What a binge!Felt like a rollercoaster and begging for more!!!But there's life after CASA DE LAS FLORES!!!
It is an intoxicating show! The plot utterly untertwined by fantastic characters drives us to a madness of our possible own characteristics...Greed,lust, scarttered in handfulls of quirky and brilliant dialogues.
A must see for those who like to be entertained by an excellent drama/comedy...but then,just like life,isn't it?
Diecisiete (2019)
Touching.
I did not know anything about no one in this flick...just read the summary and hoped for the best. I wasn't disappointed! The plot follows a common beat: offcasts with a plus of a burden-a granny about to die! Two brothers estranged due to life's hardships,but they are brothers afterall!
I liked the eye of the boy over his problems-and I believe he is autistic...he doesn't waste time on victimization,of feeling sorry for his condition,he just feels angry...until the day his whole feelings pour out for a dog...a needy one...
We could say it is a road movie and a family/relationships movie....but after all,it's about love!