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Self Indulgent

posted 16 years ago by pullgees
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Too many flaws. Add them all up plus the worst musical score I've ever heard and clumsy use of the music and most of all Brandos self indulgence. Total all that up and you have a complete turkey.

[–] abbeyuk 16 years ago

What! Brando is a God. How can you say this. Just listen to his voice how clear and precise it comes over. NOT.

I think Brando was on drugs when making this film. You need a lip reader to understand what the hell he is saying. But then the movie is so poor does it actually matter?

[–] wernersieg 16 years ago

You just have to accept a movie like this for what it is and appreciate any good points. If you get too critical, you'll find just about anything coming out of Hollywood is pretty crappy, with only rare exceptions.

I actually like this film, not that I'm completely blind to its flaws. It is better than most Hollywood Westerns. Like others on this board, I only wish we could have gotten to see the director's cut.

[–] abbeyuk 16 years ago

*beep* off it was crap

[–] kbrai 16 years ago

it was and is a class act

"Im just a bum sitting in a motor home on a film set, BRANDO said, and they come looking for ZEUS".

[–] abbeyuk 16 years ago

booollock!!! its crap

[–] haristas 16 years ago

There's no way "One-Eyed Jacks" can seriously be written off as crap. It's too beautifully mounted and photographed for that. It may not be perfect, but it ain't crap, and I think the score is good too. Looking at it next to most of what passes for major motion pictures today, "One-Eyed Jacks" is a masterpiece!

[–] Digital-Sailor 16 years ago

I think Brando's director's cut was between 3 to 4 hours long. He had a hard time paring it down. (I think they shot 1,000,000 feet of film!). The studio grabbed back the footage (literally) and cut it down to an average film length and then relaeased it.

[–] M1uffy 16 years ago

I love the movie, Brando's acting, and especially the music. I think, the film is one of the best westerns I have seen, and the score is one of the finest written for a western.

So much tastes and opinions can differ. ;-)

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[–] ccbc 16 years ago

This is a great western. A fine take on the Revenge theme and one of the (remarkably) few American westerns to take on the Outlaw Lover concept. Anyway, critics of the day hated it -- or else were looking for an opportunity to dump on Brando. They talked about the whipping scene as though it were a crucifixion and Brando wanted to be Jesus. No. The whipping was humiliation and Katy Jurado underscores that in her dialogues with Karl Malden, since she, too, is being humiliated. But that is only one of the subtle underlying themes here: Malden was young and crooked, now is mature and corrupt; Brando is still young, still an outlaw; Malden's name is Dad! What an entry into the generation war of the 60s!

[–] liscarkat (16552) 3 years ago

"One-Eyed Jacks" is a nearly flawless, beautiful-looking, well-directed, brilliantly acted western with an excellent musical score by Hugo Friedhofer. Total all that up and you have a complete masterpiece.