01-26-2003, 12:33 AM
Quote:You need to have an interest in experiencing things that were before your time to be able to appreciate them maybe.That's the weird thing...I could literally name hundreds of movies that came out before I was born that I'd put above anything that came out in the past five years. It's just this particular genre that does nothing for me. Maybe I'm just looking for something that just isn't there...
Quote:The Magnificent Seven (essentially a re-make of "The Seven Samuri") is one of my favorite westerns. Good, Bad, & the Ugly, & Shootout at the OK Corral come to mind.I was discussing this with a friend of mine today, he's a film student at NYU and a big time fan of the westerns. He's the one that recommended High Noon, and after I told him how it bored me to tears, he told me to check out The Magnificent Seven, that it might be more my style. I've already seen The Seven Samurai and loved it - Kurosawa's probably my favorite director ever, definitely top 3 with Welles and Kubrick - so I'll give that one a shot. Same with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - it seems to be the film that everyone mentions when talking about great westerns.