I've never been a fan of Westerns of any sort, save for Wild Wild West (the tv show) and F Troop. There's something about the dirty, low tech, violent, amoral characters, and other elements of the genre I don't like. That said, I watched 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, last night in a friend's home theatre.
Great movie. I really, really enjoyed it. Fantastic performances by everyone and an immersive, intelligent and interesting story. It definitely deserved its Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
I strongly recommend this movie, even if you don't care for Westerns.
4 comments:
So you don't like High Noon? That's a great movie. Westerns are a truly unique American genre (although Clint Eastwood made a lot of Sphagetti Westerns.)
I'm actually not a huge fan of Westerns, in part because a lot of them are so formulaic. But the best ones are really good.
You don't like violent, amoral characters? And you watch "24"?
Unforgiven is very good as well.
I agree....I wasn't sure I was going to like 3:10 to Yuma, but it was excellent. Westerns are not normally a genre I watch....on the other hand, I have started watching HBO's Deadwood which is also excellent.
I didn't think Unforgiven was as good as I had been led to believe. IN fact, until "Letters from Iwo Jima" I thought Clint Eastwood was a very overrated director.
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