The Magnificent Seven written by William Roberts, Walter Bernstein, Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Newman and Hideo Oguni; directed by John Sturges and with a glorious cast is probably included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list – maybe I should have checked this, but I feel it must be there – after showing this serious tendency to procrastinate, I have the gumption to invite you to check my more than five thousand notes on films from the aforementioned and other web pages, which are accompanied by reviews for magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

The Magnificent Seven written by William Roberts, Walter Bernstein, Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Newman and Hideo Oguni; directed by John Sturges and with a glorious cast is probably included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list – maybe I should have checked this, but I feel it must be there – after showing this serious tendency to procrastinate, I have the gumption to invite you to check my more than five thousand notes on films from the aforementioned and other web pages, which are accompanied by reviews for magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

8 out of 10

 

This is a phenomenal motion picture, but I refer here to the 1960 adaptation of The Seven Samurai https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/seven-samurai-written-and-directed-by.html written and directed by one of the gods of cinema, Akira Kurosawa, this is not about the more recent feature, with Denzel Washington

 

In fact, I have given the latter only 73 out of 100, when I have ‘reviewed it’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/note-on-magnificent-seven.html - nevertheless, I will limit myself to saying that it is a pleasure to watch thespians of the caliber of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn and one that I do not really respect, Charles Bronson, mea culpa, I may have to say

From here on, I will abandon the subject and move on to…what happened today at the club, so you may feel you have to leave this page – I am smiling, for I am talking to Nobody, just like Ulysses in the Odyssey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-odyssey-by-homer.html when he addressed the Cyclopes…

 

We will see this soon, in the motion picture that will probably dominate 2026, directed by Christopher Nolan, who has used millions of feet of film – this is a record I read – and has invented new IMAX cameras to use for the whole movie, it will be a fiesta, jubilation, expect it is not good to have too high expectations

We have this man at the club Downtown, Ammoniac aka Chili Palmer, only the latter is such a funny, likeable character, while the local version has the obsession with ‘telling you how it is’, but without the glamour, charm of the John Travolta personage on the big screen https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/get-shorty-by-elmore-leonard-aka.html

 

This local Chili has a series of lectures, wherein he explains how Frankenstein is a marvelous film, to which I say I do not like it, then he tells you about the humiliation of Zelensky, that it was the Ukrainian war hero who is obnoxious ‘how could he tell Vance “Have you been to Ukraine to see it?”, that was blasphemy’

I left and cannot stand this individual anymore, it has to do with The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/six-pillars-of-self-esteem-by-nathaniel.html a psychology classic by Nathaniel Branden you have values, principles, in order to have self-esteem, but if you allow them to be trampled upon, lowered to the dust, then what is left to respect, if you allow people to say Trump aka Evil is actually good?

 

Then there is this other individual (I know, if there are more who say I am wrong, then I must be, well, maybe I am) who was mocking in the sauna, and when I tried to speak, he jumped in, with details about a famous porn star, Emma something, the problem there was that he is an outsider, like in Goodfellas https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/goodfellas-based-on-book-by-nicholas.html he is not a ‘made guy’, he does not have the right to take shots at me, Ammoniac at least is part of the Caucasian Chalk Circle

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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