liz and i watched the magnificent seven. i've always been meaning to see it, although westerns are tied with horror for my least favorite. but, i love steve mcqueen and wanted to see yul brynner in something other then the king and i. and, we saw a preview for one of the sequels on tv, so that got us interested.
it did not disappoint. those mens are totally hot and awesome and bad ass. the plot is there is a town in mexico that keeps having all their crops and food stolen by bandits. three men come up to the boarder town to buy guns so they can fight. they see yul brynner and steve mcqueen drive a hurst with an indian up a hill. see, everyone are asshole racists, so they didn't want to bury the indian in the white cemetery. the three mexicans pretty much fall in love with yul after that and ask him to help buy guns. he says it would be better to buy men and they set about rounding guys up.
everyone buy three of the seven die, everyone gets their moment of truth and their i-have-a-soul speech. it was good, although i don't think you have to die a hero to be a hero, or something.
i had to look up all these guys while i was watching and i learned to yul is russian, maybe 1/8 mongolian and total beefcake.
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maybe westerns are the action you're looking for? i've watched a lot of action, but heist movies are the only ones that really stand out to me.
ReplyDeletei dunno if i like heist movies. i do love westerns. this one sounds pretty great. they should call him yul yummer. i rented the original taking of pelham one two three but i haven't watched it yet. i keep bringing movies home and not watching them because i have one roommate who never leaves the living room and all of a sudden i am really annoyed with her because she gets the living room all the time and doesn't even pay her bills on time or clean up after herself and sometimes i just want to watch a movie and not have an awkward or boring conversation about someone else's problems when that someone else isn't someone whose problems i could always, forever talk about, you know? i'm mad today and it has nothing to do with anything or anybody, i just am. and now i'm getting it all over our blog. oops! it's probably total pms. blurgh.
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