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It's been a while since we watched a western and I liked this one so much! Great score and awesome cast! I had known Yul Brynner was in it but Steve McQueen was a surprise! Good chemistry between all the seven men - you know I love a team up! What other western, Yul Brynner or Steve McQueen movies should we check out?

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Dylan

Simply one of the greatest westerns of all time! What a cast, not to mention one of the most memorable sound scores as well!

Dean

Definitely think you should check out Seven Samurai. It is subtitled and on the longer side, but is iconic for reason. You could do another Kurosawa original + its Western adaptation with Yojimbo & Fistful of Dollars,

Matt O'Keefe

Steve McQueen was my late mother's #1 movie star crush. She always watched this if it came on TV. Her favorite McQueen movie was Bullitt though.

Geoff S.

The Sand Pebbles is a great McQueen adventure/drama.

Ian

Looking forward to this one a lot it's been a while since we had a Jen western reaction and I know already this will be magnificent 🔥✨🙌 great stuff Jen

Ian

Love the thumbnail it's friggin fantastic , love your expression 🙂🔥I'm ready to have the theme stuck in my head for days 😀

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

For Steve McQueen, The Gataway Another must see western is The Wild Bunch, which gave birth the the slo-mo action sequences Bernardo O'Reilly was played by Charles Bronson. He was in another great western (Once Upon a Time in the West) If you want crazy 70s/ 80s action movies, he's your guy. Starting with the more subdued Death Wish, although they get crazier the further you watch (especially Death Wish 3) 😂😂 Also you must watch Seven Samurai, which this movie is a remake of 😁🤓

Webwyrm

This take on Kurosawas The 7 Samurai is so fun. Great cast and great adaptation. You would love the original source material. Most famous westerns are just remakes of old samurai movies. lol

Jason Scade

Looking forward to catching up with this soon. 🐴 🤠 👍 Idt you've did Eastwood's Unforgiven yet(?). That and Gran Torino are his two best movies, imo. The Wild Bunch is another seminal Revisionist Western about aging professional robbers and gunslingers. Hugely controversial upon release due to how violent it is. The director practically invented slo-mo shoot outs.

Ian

Yes unforgiven and grand Torino are both on Jen's channel 👍

Rob Nichols

Yul Brynner's look as the gunslinger in Westworld, the black pants and shirt, were an homage to this film. I can't even remember the last time I saw this one, it'll be fun to revisit it.

Helly R

The remake is perfectly OK, but hardly essential. Def Seven Samurai, and for more really accessible Kurosawa, Yojimbo.

JPHintz

Towards the beginning when the salesmen are trying to get the undertaker to bury the corpse the one without the mustache is played by Bing Russel, Kurt Russel's father.

Rob Nichols

The Seven Samurai formula was remade again in 1980 as a sci-fi, Battle Beyond The Stars.

Steve Holton

Steve McQueen was reluctant to take this role since his character had such a small part. Director Sturges promised he would give McQueen “the camera”, meaning he’d give him closeups etc. So, McQueen took the role and used every trick he knew to draw the camera to him. You see it best when he mounts the stagecoach in the beginning. He fiddles with everything to draw the viewer’s eye. The individual shaking of both shotgun cartridges is the most brazen. But Sturges kept to his promise. Later in his career McQueen tried everything to remove dialogue from a script. Constantly saying, “I’ll just show it with my face”. Which he did very effectively.

Kevin Kuenn

She's already watched Fistful of Dollars, which is why I'd recommend watching Yojimbo first, it's an easier watch and feels much more modern than Seven Samurai, though both movies are great.

Harvey Lee

The Sand People s is really good Steve McQueen reunites with his Great Escape co-star Richard Attenborough It was also McQueen's only Oscar nomination.

Harvey Lee

What a great ensemble cast and a classic western I've always been a fan of McQueen and there are many stories about he was always upstaging Yul Brynner . Director John Sturges was a fan of Kurosawa and did this as a remake of Seven Samurai He would later cast and reunite three of the stars here for the The Great Escape James Coburn Charles Bronson And Steve McQueen I thank you kindly for this Jen .🤠

Jeff McClellan

Now that you've seen this movie (and hopefully The Seven Samurai as well) you will see the story everywhere -- from A Bug's Life to The Three Amigos and even an episode of The Mandolorian. Also, fun fact, James Coburn was the voice of Mr. Waternoose in Monsters Inc.

Geoff S.

I think it would be a good time to get into some of the gritty Charles Bronson action movies. There are so many good ones. He became a big star in the years after this. James Coburn too. And still so many more Eastwood movies to see too!

Mr. Writhms

Yes! And please check out Seven Samurai and the Magnificent Seven (2016) remake with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt.

Richard Meacham

No one can walk like Yul Brynner. He always looks like the rooster in the henhouse.

Adam Harris

It's been remade/homaged many times. There's an episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars which is directly based on Seven Samurai (George Lucas is a huge fan and supporter of Akira Kurosawa's work), and also an episode of The Mandalorian that takes many cues from it. Even the comedy movie The Three Amigos! has a lot of similarities.

TigerMyth

Yul lighting up that cigar at the start. Yikes. Jen. Yul died from lung cancer and as a kid he did an anti-cigarette / health warning that basically said if you are seeing this advertisement, I am dead. Now that I am gone I tell you, don't smoke. Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Gary Cameron

Jen! So glad you decided to watch this! It's a great movie in its own right - and based on an all-time great movie by Akira Kurosawa, which you should watch - but now you will get the joke concerning an upcoming DS9 episode! 🤠❤️🖖

Jason Scade

Did you ever see anti-smoking video he made, after diagnosis of terminal cancer. Broadcast after his death. "I'm Yul Brynner. And I'm dead now, smoking killed me. Don't smoke. Get help to quit." Very brave and caring. ❤️🙏

Gary Cameron

There is another western with Charles Bonson (who played Bernardo in "The Magnificent Seven") and Henry Fonda (in a rare villain role) that you MUST watch titled "Once Upon a Time in the West". It's a Sergio Leone film made after the Clint Eastwood trilogy, and it has an amazing score that's borderline operatic. Speaking of Leone, I'm a little surprised you didn't spot Eli Walach as the bandit leader since he played Tuco in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"! (I guess it's been a while 😁)

The Irish Buddhist

Nobody better imop, then the master himself, Akira Kurosawa... His visual work is epic and his stories are genius. By far my all time favorite Film Maker to have ever lived. "Dreams" and "Rhapsody in August" I love the most, but 7 Samurai is right up there.

s8150f

Yul Brenner became famous for his role in the King and I with Debra Kerr, also Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman, and as Ramesses II in the Ten Commandments. Any one of those movies is worth watching.

HeWhoLooksSkyward

And Robert Vaughn played the same exact role in both movies. :)

HeWhoLooksSkyward

"The Three Amigos" is very much an homage/satire to this movie.

Colin Simpson

The remake is horrible. You can skip it.

Ian

Would be cool to see a seven samurai reaction but even better to see you continue with ' the return of the seven 1966 also with Yul Brynner . ' guns of the magnificent seven 1969 and the magnificent seven ride again 1972 with the great lee van cleef 🤠. I didn't actually mind the Denzel Washington remake either

Summer

Not sure how much it prepared us for the episode around October, I watched the episode before this, but its good to make sure there are no neat details

JPHintz

You should also check out Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Roger Corman's Sci-Fi version of the Magnificent Seven which starred George Peppard (The A-Team), Richard Thomas (The Waltons), John Saxon as the villain, and Robert Vaughn, who played Lee in the Magnificent Seven, playing a sci-fi version of his character in this film and even says the some of the exact same dialogue. The film is cheesy but entertaining.

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

I agree that Seven Samurai and Yojimbo are must watch, too bad most people think Dollars and Magnificent Seven are the "originals" and don't bother to seek them out. I undestand westerns are an easier watch than subtitled, Japanese period dramas but those are important films people should watch.

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

Love Harmonica's theme 🤓. Then again, all of Morricone's themes are masterpieces 😆

Gary Cameron

Yes. He was a pretty big star in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. He was even in the western "Catlow" with some guy named Leonard Nimoy as the villain! Sadly, Brenner died of lung cancer in 1985.

Darryl Low

Man, It's been so long since I've seen this movie, and I really enjoyed watching it again with you Jen. It's just so great to watch all these classic movies with someone appreciates them. Thanks for your awesome reaction. Another epic Steve McQueen movie is Papillion from 1973. A sprawling adventure with a grandiose Oscar nominated score from Jerry Goldsmith 😊

zynjams

they need to call the 3 amigos

zynjams

I always hated that ending. killing Bernardo with a random shot when the fighting was over, it felt cheesy

zanzibarwhite

this is my favorite western of all time. i one watched a documentary about it, i think it was Steve McQueen that said Horst Bucholtz (Chico) was going to steal every scene he's in. Yul Brenner responded "No he won't, all i have to do is take off my hat"

HeWhoLooksSkyward

The remake is far from horrible. It's very much a movie of its time, just like this one.

HeWhoLooksSkyward

You know, upon reflection, the fact that the town hid the women but not the young girls says a lot about American audiences of the time, blithely assuming they'd be spared if the worst happened. No one would make that assumption now. :(

Jason Scade

Great reaction. 2:02:25 She clunked him on the head. 👍 Further Steve McQueen; The Getaway (1972 / Dir. by Sam Peckinpah) Papillon (1973) Revisionist Westerns; The Wild Bunch (1969 / Dir. by Sam Peckinpah) Dances With Wolves (1990) The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) HBO's Deadwood Neo-Westerns; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974 / Dir. by Sam Peckinpah) Blood Simple (1984 / The Coen Bros. first movie)