In Reply to: "3:10 To Yuma": Okay cowboy, not CLASSIC cowboy.... posted by mr grits on September 8, 2007 at 18:10:29:
From a visual standpoint this wasn't exactly a John Ford picture, but at least the movie was technically well-done. It's the ending that really didn't work for me. It's not as if the characters weren't carefully drawn or developed in a failed script or that the acting was substandard (it certainly wasn't) and Bale and Crowe weren't able to properly convey their characters to the viewer. It's just that the actions in the final 30 minutes defied all known patterns of human behavior - rational or otherwise. Not that I didn't have a lot of problems with some of the peculiar actions, reactions, and motivations in the first hour and a half. But once they got to that hotel room it was as if they entered some strange parallel universe of the human psyche. It was a totally unconvincing resolution to an average Western.
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- RE: "3:10 To Yuma": Okay cowboy, not CLASSIC cowboy.... - Dalton 13:06:40 09/09/07 (4)
- I liked this movie A LOT . . . but I agree that the ending - townsend 15:15:37 09/09/07 (3)
- Best Western in some time? "The Proposition" nt - Duilawyer 21:24:08 09/09/07 (2)
- RE: Best Western in some time? "The Proposition" nt - townsend 14:34:15 09/10/07 (1)
- I agree 100% on The Missing, expecially the hokum, but the Prop got - Duilawyer 16:56:59 09/10/07 (0)