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I liked this film a lot. Starring Kevin Coster, Robert Duvall, and Annette Benning. It was just on a local cable channel, shown in full without ads.
Wow. I know it's fashionable to bash Costner, but I like his work (most of it), and the others were great -- especially Benning. Haven't seen her in much, but she brings it. Duvall is typically Duvall; he doesn't know how to do bad work, but he always plays the same. Which isn't bad, but you've seen the character before somewhere, like in most of his other movies.
This is classic, and I like it for all the sloppy reasons. The good guys win against big odds, the good guy gets the girl that he finds in this out of the way place, the cause is righteous, bad guys are bleeding everywhere, the town rallies behind the lonely and fatalistic heroes. They loved their dog, which tells you the good guys have hearts of gold.
Among all the bad weather and blood, the romance is terrific. Love found in a stack of bodies laying in mud. Hard to believe this is primarily a romantic tale, but the righteous cause and the girl make that emphatic.
It sounds as sloppy as it can get, but it works great. What's happened to westerns is that the authors got careless over time. They got tired of the romance, so in looking for 'different', they got real; giving us good guys who die, causes that don't win out, and anti-heroes who fail.
This is a beautiful movie, opening in 2003, set in the Rockies in the 1880's, in what looks to be Colorado, Wyoming, or Montana. The photography and setting are great. Do yourself a favor and rent this 'burner, but maybe not a good pick for popcorn night with the kids.
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Just horrible stuff.
Costner was fine.
very nicely paced and well-edited too.
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Costner is about perfect as the good-guy cowboy with a very troubled past, Michael Gambon is a perfectly evil empire-building ranch owner and Diego Luna and Abraham Benrubi are excellent supporting cowboys.
Too bad it's not available on Blu.
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"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." Albert Einstei
This one along with Shawshank, O'Brother, maybe Big Lebowski and Jaws that I can watch again and again. I'd take it over Tombstone, and probably over Unforgiven, which I love. I would disagree, though, that it is sappy, which I assume is what you meant.
Yes, the good guys win. But consider the scene when Costner is talking to Bening as he is going to wait for the inevitable fight - when he tells her that men are going to get killed, and he is going to kill them. I think a typical Hollywood flick would have the love soften the man for what needs to be done, or at least what he thinks needs to be done. You know, she made feel things.
I like that he still has a job to do, and they both know that the fight must happen.
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