3:10 To Yuma

[kafka]

what about "The Assassination of Jesse James" anyone see a trailer for that? Anyone have any hopes that that one will be any good?

[dUSt]

[quote name='kafka' post='1378598' date='Sep 5 2007, 12:56 PM']what about "The Assassination of Jesse James" anyone see a trailer for that? Anyone have any hopes that that one will be any good?[/quote]
I hope it'll be good.

I hope they are both successful at the box office because I'd really like to see some more quality westerns made.

Val Kilmer is due to star in a good western. I'd like to see Johnny Depp in another one too. And, even though it would probably be real profane and violent, I'd love to see what Quentin Tarantino could do in the genre.

[CrossCuT]

[size=1]I thought this looked pretty good!
But I dont know when Ill be able to go see it.
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[ardillacid]

Tombstone is the best western ever, I do declare.

Edited September 13, 2007 by notardillacid

[dUSt]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1384742' date='Sep 13 2007, 02:27 AM']Tombstone is the best western ever, I do declare.[/quote]
Wrong. It had one of the best ever performances in a western (Val Kilmer), but as a movie, it was good, but not one of the best. These are facts I'm speaking, not opinions.

[CrossCuT]

[size=1]Im just going to see Christian Bale.
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[ardillacid]

[quote name='CrossCuT' post='1385107' date='Sep 13 2007, 08:12 PM'][size=1]Im just going to see Christian Bale.
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[jmjtina]

This was SUCH a great film!!!

I didn't expect to see Luke Wilson!

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale were AWESOME together!

[Jaime]

The film left me speechless!

I will buy that as soon as it comes out! It BETTER be up for best picture.


Thanks for the heads up dUSt!!!

[Socrates]

Good flick. Suspenseful, with good performances.

This was a remake of a 1957 movie which I have not seen, but which is supposedly much better (at least according to the critics), but apparently is a lot more spare.

[scardella]

Films like this make me want to be a better man.

[kafka]

This movie I liked. Albeit three years late.



I hereby declare that from henceforth all movies made in America shall be Westerns with quality scripts, cinematography and actors (such as Kilmer, Bale, Crowe, etc.)

Time to get tough America.

[sarcasmguy126]

I remember that I enjoyed this movie, especially since there were two fantastic actors in it: Christian Bale (a great one) and Russell Crowe (one of the greatest ever!). But I was distraught by the end. [spoiler]The last thing I expected was Dan to be killed by the Fonda character, and then Ben Wade to shoot Fonda (whatever his name was, been a long time) and the rest of his posse. I found it kinda depressing that Dan had to die....he was a good fella.[/spoiler] And no, there is no sex per se, just a scene where Ben seduces a bar maid an sketches her nude (but nothing beyond her back is shown).

P.S. Anybody notice that Crowe's films often begin with him looking at a bird (at least, "Gladiator" and "3:10" do, so I guess I can't generalize)?

Edited December 18, 2010 by sarcasmguy126

[kafka]

I agree with what you said in the spoiler, sarcastic.

The movie was in the end tragic. The utter absurdity and nothingness of evil, the emptiness of reputation, what people think, etc. But there was also some goodness in some of the characters. I thought Dan's original choice of escorting Wade was a good and selfless moral choice. But I was a little disappointed in Dan's choice at the end to see it through, where bad consequences clearly outweighed the good. That was Hollywood.

Still the end leaves quite an impression, because they both work together really for the sake of the boy, even though I though it was far-fetched.

[sarcasmguy126]

Sorry, don't quite understand what you mean by being "disappointed in Dan's decision to see it through, where bad consequences clearly outweigh the good". If you mean the choice to escort Ben to Yuma prison, that is a good choice.