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In Reply to: Open Range -- I'm all thumbs, up! posted by clarkjohnsen on August 25, 2003 at 10:45:52:
... If "Open Range" is cliche, I want more of it rather than the "originality" we've been treated to at the theater this summer. If some of the dialog is cliched (Costner does say, "Let's rustle up some grub") at least there are no precocious children doling out wisdom to clueless adults, there's no time travel involved, and the action wasn't filmed against a backdrop of red rocks in Sedona. After 100 years of movies, what isn't cliche?True, the good vs bad delineation was a little more black and white than one expects these days - even to the point where Costner's character tears up over the loss of his dog and later saves another dog from drowning (lest a modern audience of over-sensitive PETA members refuse to sympathize with an evil animal-hating cattle killer). But I did appreciate that Costner chose not to directly inject modern P.C. conceits into the story to give it "value" (Benning's character delivers no anachronistic feminist diatribes and there are no out-of-place asides to modern-day gun laws, unjust treatment of Native Americans or blacks, etc.), which kept this simple, small-scale story focused. If the film has any "value", it might simply be as an exploration of the fine line between justice and vengeance.
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Follow Ups
- I enjoyed the complete absence of exploding helicopters, space aliens/robots and kung fu dance fights... - Dalton 15:14:02 08/26/03 (1)
- Yes, let the others here rave over Matrix, T3 and Planet of the Apes. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:56:31 08/27/03 (0)
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