Slept through part of the Seven Samurai movie. Quite a good movie. Though it is taking me forever to get through. I can see where the Magnificent Seven is a rip off of this movie. Some of the acting is overdone. The sound could have been better handled. But the movie looked visually quite good. I don't know if there is an equivalent remake of the Seven Samurai made in more recent years. If not, I hope the Japanese put together a remake of this movie soon.

I like the synopsis but have never heard of the actors.
IMDB is giving it an 8.

BigP wrote on Feb 21^st, 2019 at 5:58pm:


You're probably right 

Watched a good SBS movie:

Three Seasons in Hell.

Very interesting characters in a time when the USSR was closing in on the rest of Eastern Europe after the war.

Tally wrote on Feb 21^st, 2019 at 5:49pm:


The grease ball is none other than Aragorn from lord of the rings so there you do know someone in that movie

Actually his performance makes the movie should get best actor

Never thought of him as a good actor until this one, ie Green Book

The character of Aragorn was more fitting of someone like Sean Connery or Clive Owen (Raven haired, tall and 'strider' like), not some small petite brunette with a mumbling/whispering way of talking.
Viggo M. was totally miscast as Aragorn.

Calamity Jane

The local cinema is doing a couple sessions of old movies each fortnight. Last Monday was "Calamity Jane". I had heard of the movie in the past. In fact, I thought that I had seen part of the movie when I was a child. That was confirmed when I saw a scene where a white guy (Bill Hickok character) was dressed as a native American. Obviously, I had not been paying attention to the scene, and I had actually thought that this movie was doing a white-washing of Indians -- for a reason of a lack of actors of native American descent. It seemed humourous that an American movie would screw up the casting of some guy who was obviously so cowboy-ish with his mannerism and speech. But, I later found out that the character of Bill Hickok was actually making good his bet that Calamity Jane could not get a major city well-known stage singer/dancer to come out to such a remote location to perform at their local theatre. Found this out the hard way though a plot reveal in a review online. I recalled that 30 years earlier, I had the same idea, even with my mother telling me that the plot called for this minor scene.

On the topic of the movie, this was a good musical. Though, the musical is a bit too dated for modern tastes, it was likely good nostalgia for the elder members of my community. Doris Day seemed very goofy for her musical numbers. But, the songs were pleasant enough to watch and hear without being too repetitive. The song The Deadwood Stage set Calamity Jane as the tom-boyish personality that was to shape Jane's character early in the movie. However, her later songs such as Secret Love did show Jane mature as a character and redeem herself from earlier indiscretions.

If you don't like the goofy nature of these musicals, this movie is not for you. Any cinephile that enjoys a good musical, this movie should be high on your list of the must watch section.

Had some hours to spare between things and watched
Really good movie with the cliche twist of good guys are actually bad and bad guys are actually good.
Brie Larson portrayed a woman with PMT that lights her up, really well - to become the 'super-heroine' (did I say that? Are we allowed to say 'Heroine' away from calling women... men?).

Don't know much about the Super-hero (& heroine) rankings and status's. But I gather from this movie - that Captain Marvel (da woman!) is possibly the most 'POWERFUL' of them all, this side of ''.

Stay tuned, same Bat channel, same Bat time.