Unlike most old-school Westerns, however, there are also several explosions – the fact that they’re near a mine assures our fighters have plenty of TNT handy – and some traps a la John McClane in the first “Die Hard”. “Take Denzel and whoever’s left, and regroup”. The smartass of the group and also the uber cool is definitely Josh, who blows away with his screen presence.
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Pay special attention to Ethan Hawke’s character. In this iteration, Peter Sarsgaard plays the villainous industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, and Haley Bennet emerges as the leader of Rose Creek who recruits outlaws to defend the town.
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On Thursday, The Magnificent Seven took in $1.75 million in previews, and it’s projected to make $12 million on Friday. He’s a one-dimensional and boring villain. We were going down a list of actors – Tom Cruise was on board at one point, before I came on, and I thought ‘Tom Cruise would be cool.’ It didn’t work out on that end and when I came on I thought ‘Denzel Washington would do it.’ And who’s the Steve McQueen of today? “So to have that opportunity to portray a character that could be that for this generation is the most exciting part”. In an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the ever-candid Pratt admitted that he has a fraught history with horseback riding, and isn’t exactly the greatest at understanding how to make a horse behave while on its back. They both in a nutshell are indeed Magnificent. “This is a timeless tale that has been told many times but it’s a relevant and new perspective”. Everybody’s on a collision course toward the ultra-violent finale, where countless folks are shot, stabbed and blown up. D’Onofrio is perfectly quirky and at times very amusing as the tracker/trapper Horne, a God-fearing man who comes to respect and admire his colleagues and considers it a true honor to be defending the good people of Rose Creek from Bough, a man he dubs “a true evil”. That isn’t a bad thing at all though, as Native Americans, Asians, and Mexicans in the mix all allow opportunities for director Antoine Fuqua to incorporate in a mixture of weapons and different fighting styles to keep the action fresh, along with different personalities.
