They should change the title of this to "long, pointless, and boring." Seven Samurai has no redeeming value whatsoever.
Even the subtitles sucked. In fact, they were the absolute worse I've ever seen. Half the dialogue either wasn't translated or was white or white and therefore unreadable! This made the plot hard to follow; fortunately, there wasn't much to follow. A five year old could guess the conclusion after the first 10 minutes!
A lot of people say there is incredible depth in 7 samurai. They must be on crack. The characters on incredibly shallow. We learn nothing about anyone in the movie. You'd think in three hours one could probe the characters minds - find out why they act as they do, but nope, once a character is introduced their developement stops.
Then their are the inane sub-plots that go nowhere. Please! If you are going to introduce a plot device, have it go somewhere. In real life, everything isn't meaningful, but this isn't real life - it is a movie. If I wanted to see pointless stuff happening, I could look out my window!
It is said that the Brigand's helmet inspired Darth Vader's. If that's true, then the dumb "comic" guy must have inspired Jar-Jar (that is not a good thing). At least Lucas had an excuse for including a dumb character - Phantom Menace was a kids movie. Akira had no business doing so in Seven Samurai.
So why does this movie have such a high rating? I attribute it primarily to the fact that everyone is afraid to you they didn't like a "classic." If people stopped thinking like drones, maybe we could come to realize that some "classics" really aren't very good. Just because a film is old & very known, doesn't mean it is great.
In conclusion, Seven Samurai is terrible. It is juvenille, lacks depth or character developement, and, in general, is highly overrated.
Even the subtitles sucked. In fact, they were the absolute worse I've ever seen. Half the dialogue either wasn't translated or was white or white and therefore unreadable! This made the plot hard to follow; fortunately, there wasn't much to follow. A five year old could guess the conclusion after the first 10 minutes!
A lot of people say there is incredible depth in 7 samurai. They must be on crack. The characters on incredibly shallow. We learn nothing about anyone in the movie. You'd think in three hours one could probe the characters minds - find out why they act as they do, but nope, once a character is introduced their developement stops.
Then their are the inane sub-plots that go nowhere. Please! If you are going to introduce a plot device, have it go somewhere. In real life, everything isn't meaningful, but this isn't real life - it is a movie. If I wanted to see pointless stuff happening, I could look out my window!
It is said that the Brigand's helmet inspired Darth Vader's. If that's true, then the dumb "comic" guy must have inspired Jar-Jar (that is not a good thing). At least Lucas had an excuse for including a dumb character - Phantom Menace was a kids movie. Akira had no business doing so in Seven Samurai.
So why does this movie have such a high rating? I attribute it primarily to the fact that everyone is afraid to you they didn't like a "classic." If people stopped thinking like drones, maybe we could come to realize that some "classics" really aren't very good. Just because a film is old & very known, doesn't mean it is great.
In conclusion, Seven Samurai is terrible. It is juvenille, lacks depth or character developement, and, in general, is highly overrated.