O dear O dear
In today's Guardian G2, 40 films to watch in autumn 2016.
There may be more bloopers, but I particularly cringed at these two: Perhaps more a curiosity than a must-see as a dubbed Ralph Fiennes stars as the spurned lover in a lush, daft Russian-language adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country.
(I note that someone has corrected this in the online version - the print version omits Turgenev's authorship and I strongly suspect it was initially supposed that it was a remake of this, based on a novel by J L Carr, which has something of a cult status. Otherwise I am not sure how one makes a 'daft Russian-language adaptation' of a classic work of Russian literature.) The Magnificent Seven
Seven mercenaries take on the job of protecting a small town from a meanie industrialist in Antoine Fuqua’s reload of the John Sturges classic.
Which was, as (surely, eny fule no that no anything about movies), itself ripped off from modeled on Kurosawa's epic The Seven Samurai, sigh. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2493894.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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