My sister and I "kicked off" football season with lunch out and a movie. I own the original--on CD--yeah, I know. Pretty 90s of me. At any rate, I liked the old version and I'm kind of a fan of Denzel Washington's movies. It had a few other familiar faces in it, so off we went.
It took a few scenes to get passed the new cast, but it wasn't difficult to accept the new faces and the spin new spin on the old theme:
Small village in distress. Bully threatening to take away "blank."
I didn't want to watch 90 minutes of meaningless violence. However, this movie had its fair share of shooting. Why wouldn't it? It's a western. In our time, it's OK to sit and watch a movie glorifying evil or hate. It's OK to watch bad win out over good, or tear up the old adage, "Crime doesn't pay."
So maybe here, it's giving away the plot to a really good movie. Not everyone wins, and certainly not everyone lives. However, in a Dirty Dozen sort of way, the right people die and the good people die trying to kill the right people. Somehow it all makes sense.
