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I was at the gym the other night and The Lone Ranger was on, and I hadn’t seen it since it’s theatrical run, so I decided to dig into it a bit. Man is that a frustrating movie. From a production design and cinematography standpoint, it’s probably easily one of the best looking films in the entire genre. And the train chase at the end is a legitimately rousing sequence. But like, every single thread in the middle of it is just frayed and tangled. It’s too long, too bloated, narratively ugly, and way too unfocused. Gore Verbinski needs better writers to match his talent behind the lens, full stop. And of course it doesn’t help that there’s a giant jackass with bird on his head shaped black hole right in the middle of it.
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, as much as I like Armie Hammer, I'm not going to watch a movie with Johnny Depp playing a Native American pastiche. Not gonna happen. It’s wild that Depp is in both one of the very best films of the genre (Dead Man), and one of the absolute worst. And that gulf is only widened in how Native characters are treated between the two movies. I had a moment where I was like, maybe it’s not as bad as I remember. Somehow, it was worse.
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Nov 19, 2018 18:56
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God drat, I really want to rewatch Dead Man now. That is such a great flick with so many great performances. And that Neil Young score is doooope.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:23
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Stagecoach is also a must-watch, but it’s pretty easy to find as well. Westworld’s not so much a western as it is a weird sci-fi/horror movie, but it’s definitely worth watching, especially if you’re a horror fan and want to see one of the main inspirations for Michael Myers. Westworld is interesting in that it’s kind of a early meta commentary on the genre as a whole. It was released only about a decade or so after the big western boom, and a lot of the “content” of the park itself delves into western genre tropes. Like the Man In Black is specifically an archetype of it.
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Nov 20, 2018 16:44
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The Quick And The Dead is a lot of fun, but would have been better with a different lead. Sharon Stone can be good (Casino, for example), but she wasn’t the right kind of anchor for that story in my opinion.
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Nov 20, 2018 21:41
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Franchescanado posted:Jennifer Jason Leigh? Sigourney would’ve been dope. Jamie Lee Curtis would’ve been good too.
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Nov 20, 2018 22:34
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got any sevens posted:poo poo, I just watched jarmusch's Dead Man and it was great. More of a spirit journey than a western, it was a real treat. hell yeah
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Nov 22, 2018 06:16
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