What a clunker. Good acting, but ham fisted directing and script. The boy is terrible, he substitutes walking around with an open mouth for acting\emoting.
He watches while the bad guy sneaks up and shoots his father in the back multiple times, but stands up to make himself an easy target to shoo the cattle. And then in response to his father being shot in the back yells "Pa!" or "Dad" or some nonsense and comes running. Crowe for no apparent reason tries to escape from his own men who are shooting to free him when he could just run right or left and get away. Or just sit and let his captor get shot, and he walk away. Or jump out the window.
3 Indians?
And Crowe gets on the train voluntarily .
And they out shoot 200 men with vantage points to make it to the train....
Let me tell you a bad rule of life: it takes one bullet to kill a good guy, i.e. a cop, and bad guys get hit with a dozen and live.
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Topic - 3:10 to You Must be Kidding (spoilers) 2 stars of five - Duilawyer 06:03:13 01/28/08 (14)
- Reminded me a bit of Brokeback Mountain* - jaiva 18:55:30 01/29/08 (1)
- Everything usually does, Freak-o. * - mr grits 19:45:34 01/30/08 (0)
- I wasn't bowled over by this one either.... - mr grits 07:58:49 01/28/08 (11)
- I guess..like Crowe would go from cold blooded psychopath killer - Duilawyer 11:28:58 01/28/08 (10)
- The signs were there all along... IF you were paying attention. nt - sjb 12:00:30 01/28/08 (9)
- Isn't that James Coburn's big line in "The Last of Sheila"? - Duilawyer 13:53:37 01/28/08 (0)
- I agree. * - mr grits 12:34:18 01/28/08 (0)
- Really, who could pay attention to that clinker? A cold-blooded killer - tinear 12:05:29 01/28/08 (6)
- Whether you buy it or not, it had nothing to do with Crowe. - Harmonia 20:46:02 01/28/08 (0)
- Perfect analogy. Picture what Fonda did to the kid in OATITW - Duilawyer 13:51:50 01/28/08 (2)
- But that's not the story, or the character. - sjb 15:44:50 01/28/08 (1)
- Agreed.. - Harmonia 20:39:03 01/28/08 (0)
- Um... that's the character... in both the book it was based on and when Glenn Ford played the role in 1957. - sjb 12:24:48 01/28/08 (1)
- I'm sure you agree that artists take... artistic license when needed. But, that - tinear 14:25:24 01/28/08 (0)