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Church did a turn as Billy Clanton in Tombstone, too.Good flick, often overlooked. Church surprised me in this one. You telling me Denzel can't play a cowboy.
Church did a turn as Billy Clanton in Tombstone, too.Good flick, often overlooked. Church surprised me in this one. You telling me Denzel can't play a cowboy.
I've watched that trailer about a half dozen times & I didn't see anyone who could play a cowboy. Hardly recognized the plot. Everything now days has to have comedic lines inserted into the dialog. If they did a remake of something from Shakespeare they would insert comedy. And rap music? The soundtrack from the original won all kinds of awards as I recall. I usually support every western movie that comes out just to support the genre in hopes that they will make a few good ones but I think I'll save my money this time. Yul Brenner will turn over in his grave.Good flick, often overlooked. Church surprised me in this one. You telling me Denzel can't play a cowboy.
I've watched that trailer about a half dozen times & I didn't see anyone who could play a cowboy. Hardly recognized the plot. Everything now days has to have comedic lines inserted into the dialog. If they did a remake of something from Shakespeare they would insert comedy. And rap music? The soundtrack from the original won all kinds of awards as I recall. I usually support every western movie that comes out just to support the genre in hopes that they will make a few good ones but I think I'll save my money this time. Yul Brenner will turn over in his grave.
And I agree Thomas Hayden Church was very good in Broken Trail & Tombstone.
I understand that & that's why I'll be saving my money.but they're not trying to appeal to you and I.
I hold out hopes that my man Chris Pratt can manage to convince as a cowboy. Ever since Jurassic World I've believed he could play Indiana Jones in a new period-piece film, and make it work.HJ, I agree. There was plenty of humor in the original, subtle but there. More in a look or something unsaid. Contemporary music in a period piece drives me nuts but they're not trying to appeal to you and I.
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Can you just imagine a remake today complete with cornball humor & rap music of Sam Peckinpaugh 's classic, "The Wild Bunch"?I'm trying to recall any humor in the original MS film aside from some scenes with Horst Buchholz, though. Dry cynicism and wit, yes. But then the line I recall best is Steve McQueen's quiet "We deal in lead, friend."
Rap? I've only seen two trailers, and they both used a cover of The Animals' "House of the Rising Sun". I'm hoping that's only for the trailers and won't be used in the movie.I've watched that trailer about a half dozen times & I didn't see anyone who could play a cowboy. Hardly recognized the plot. Everything now days has to have comedic lines inserted into the dialog. If they did a remake of something from Shakespeare they would insert comedy. And rap music? The soundtrack from the original won all kinds of awards as I recall. I usually support every western movie that comes out just to support the genre in hopes that they will make a few good ones but I think I'll save my money this time. Yul Brenner will turn over in his grave.
Oof. Yeah, that's just wrong for a western. Again, I hope it's just for the trailers and won't be used in the movie.Here you go Zombie:
Fruno, I don't get this. Everyone probably does know that Shakespeare wrote some comedic lines but the point is that he put the lines there himself when writing his original plays & he was writing in the humor of the yr 1590 or so. Fortunately no one has been "successful" that I can think of in seriously bringing to stage or screen one of his plays replete with modern day comedy or rap music. If they did then it wasn't even recognizable.Shakespeare wrote many comedic lines in his plays. Some plays were full out comedies.
Dry cynicism and wit, yes. But then the line I recall best is Steve McQueen's quiet "We deal in lead, friend."
Fruno, I don't get this. Everyone probably does know that Shakespeare wrote some comedic lines but the point is that he put the lines there himself when writing his original plays & he was writing in the humor of the yr 1590 or so. Fortunately no one has been "successful" that I can think of in seriously bringing to stage or screen one of his plays replete with modern day comedy or rap music. If they did then it wasn't even recognizable.
Another example is how several very good writers have continued writing mysteries in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Sherlock Holmes. These writers have written new mysteries in the Sherlockian style & they are indistinguishable from those written by Doyle. Most are very good. With the exception of some emphasis placed on the drug use by Holmes by one particular writer (which was always there) the character of Sherlock Holmes has not really changed. The one attempt to "modernize" Holmes & Watson by making them gay because they are roommates fell on "deaf readers" & didn't sell very well. Those of us who enjoy reading the mysteries are greatfull to these writers for being true to the characters.
Remember " Rancho Deluxe"? Last yr they came out with the 40th anniversary directors cut CD. Look how young Bridges & Sam Waterston are.Bridges plays a good old codger. He was great in the True Grit remake.
Remember " Rancho Deluxe"? Last yr they came out with the 40th anniversary directors cut CD. Look how young Bridges & Sam Waterston are.
It was on YouTube for a while but I bought the CD. I always liked Sam Waterston's hat, like they were trying to give him an Indian look.Haven't see that movie in oh, maybe 30 years.