exferryguy The score for The Magnificent Seven has to rate as one of the great movie scores of all-time. Elmer Bernstein has had many a great musical score for classic movies (The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, Airplane!, Cape Fear, and Animal House,but the music for this Classic has to be perhaps his best After seeing this for perhaps the 10th time in my lifetime it never is tiresome to the ears. You will be humming the music forever! ENJOY!

Philip Czaplowski Firstly, the music is wonderful. In Hollywood movies the music should drive the narrative, and this is one of the best examples you'll ever see. Elmer Bernstein was a genius--and not in the devalued sense that the word is used today. You can listen to the score without the visuals, and it still grabs you.The story is simple, but the character development is more than you would normally expect, and the movie has a message that it successfully conveys. There are so many great stars in this movie, and they all play their part to make the film great, without any one cast member trying to be dominant.And in the end, this is one of the great "feel good" movies of all time. The music, the cast, the message, everything combines to create one of the greatest films ever made.

kenneth-zowal First saw this film in 1960. I was 8 years old, and was bowled over by the action scenes you did not see on TV. Found out about Kurosawa 20 years later. Saw Seven Samurai on the big screen shortly thereafter. Now, by any account, Seven Samurai is easily in the top 40 movies ever made. Held in reverence by most of the Hollywood greats. Compared with the Magnificent Seven, Seven Samurai is at least one or two levels of magnitude greater. Acting, cinematography, direction, score, and editing are all world class. Action scenes, especially with horses, are breathtaking. Takashi Shimura delivers one of his finest performances. Toshiro Mifune effortlessly ranges from idiot to major pathos in one character, and is physically impressive despite his inferiority complex. Other samurai actors are really impressive, like the always cheerful Yoshio Inaba, and particularly the stoic yet brilliant swordsman Seiji Miyaguchi. These characters have impressive depth and complexity. Going back to the Magnificent Seven, the character complexity isn't there. More than a few actors are miscast. Several scenes need to be edited out. The theme song is often poorly placed where mundane things are happening. Jerome Moross' score for The Big Country is significantly better than Bernstein's. much better.

CaptainCutie The Magnificent Seven is among some of the great classical western films, and i believe that it has well earned its title as a great classical western film. While Western movies aren't typically films that i love or watch frequently, i can truly say that after watching the film The Magnificent Seven that i enjoyed this film and liked how it was put together and played out. One thing that i enjoyed about this film in particular was the music that was playing, i thought that it was a very good choice and it complimented the film well. It seemed that throughout the duration of this film the background music seemed to fit the scenes very well and helped to get the audience into the film more. Another thing i enjoyed about this film was the stunning cast. They all had a great ability to portray their characters and the story line the film was trying to tell. I think that The Magnificent Seven was trying to give a great message in their film. The message that i believe the film was trying to get across is to care about your community and others in it. This message is very important and i believe that the film is trying to get this message across because of how the seven gunman help defend the small village while up against impossible odds. Overall i really enjoyed this film and thought it had a great message.