I’m starting to think Hollywood is either entirely out of original ideas or knows they are guaranteed a minimum of a hundred million dollars at the box office if it remakes a movie and has a starting cast of Hollywood A-listers. There is no reason why The Magnificent Seven needed a remake. I have not seen the first one, but I imagine it was probably a pretty good movie when it was made…56 years ago. Not many great Westerns have been produced in this century; while they were good, most have been remakes (3:10 to Yuma, True Grit). There have been others. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and The Homesman come to mind. Still, there are few in the genre. I wouldn’t necessarily call The Magnificent Seven a poor movie. I definitely would call it an unneeded one. Unless you love westerns, there’s no need to see this movie. The Magnificent Seven is a movie you don’t need to see on the big screen.