So, I got dragged to see this at the dollar theater. I knew I'd hate it going into it, and I did. You can probably guess what was wrong with it. First let me say what few things I liked about it:
-Haley Bennett was hot as fuck in this. Her bust seemed to go up two cups, she looked great as a redhead too.
-I liked most of the actors even if I didn't love the movie. Chris Pratt is great. Vincent D'onofrio is great. The Korean guy is great, even though he shouldn't be in this movie, but I'll excuse it because he *was* fantastic in The Good, The Bad & The Weird and I Saw the Devil.
So why did it suck? It was HARD anti-white propaganda. There were layers upon layers of it -and for the record, I myself am half Mexican, so it's not like "hurr hurr muh people" it was just so blatant and irritating.
First is the casting, of the seven only three are white. I'm going to go ahead and spoil this ahead of time, all three die by the end of the film, one of the three is nuts, one is a scoundrel and the third is a coward.
Still, when I first saw it I remember thinking "Well, I like the actors, so even though it annoys me Denzel is the old wise one I'll accept the cast if they're still saving a small Mexican village from Mexican bandits." NOPE. The villain and all his men were white. Oh, there was one exception, a native American works for him. When he's killed -by the 'good' Native American he says to him "You are a disgrace." presumably for working for for white guy.
It's not like it stopped there, though. Every few minutes there's an anti-white line. When we meet the Korean guy he explains traveling with Ethan Hawke by saying "He helps me navigate the White Man's world." When we meet the native American Denzel says to him "Do you speak the White Man's English?" and I'm reading this text and thinking "Is there another fucking kind of English?" Later when they're eating, the Native American shows disgust towards the food and says "White man's food is only fit for dogs!" The Mexican repeatedly refers to Chris Pratt's character as the Spanish word for blondie or white boy, depending on who you ask.
And if that wasn't bad enough, instead of a bandit, the villain who is now a rich white guy gives a speech at the beginning about how he's acting on behalf of CAPITALISM.
Way later in the film D'onofrio counters this with a speech where he says basically "to act in the service of men is reward enough." On top of that it's vaguely implied Ethan Hawke and the Korean guy were buttbuddies.
Seven Samurai > Battle Beyond the Stars > original Magnificent Seven > that Seven Samurai anime where they fought robots or whatever > Magnificent Seven (Current Year Edition)