Predictable and disappointing
Saw this on Starz over the weekend and I was disappointed by this movie. The storyline was very easy to predict from the first scene. This is not a movie I would recommend.
shareActually, you can recommend it as a textbook case of "How NOT to make a film" from screenplay to production for any film school.
Love and Compassion are for those who can afford it. I can't.
Actually,
this movie was GREAT the first 5 - 10 times it was made.
Sadly, this version is about the 87th incarnation of the same basic script, and it hasn't aged well.
***this movie was GREAT the first 5 - 10 times it was made.*****
Looking through the almost unanimous opinion that this movie was pretty bad, I had a private laugh when it came to the routing of the railroad.
I visualized Heddy ("that's HEDLEY") Lamar describing to Taggart how the railroad would be rerouted through Rock Ridge so he could engage in massive land snatching.
I had to wonder if these young film makers used "Blazing Saddles" as source material!
"go to bed and watch the rest in the morning!" my wife as I begin to snore
Yeah... you can practically see the scotch tape where the spliced the scripts of other, better films
-- you have the Railroad Land grab, not just from Blazing saddles
-- the hit man/henchman with the very visible Scar
-- the Bounty Hunter back in his home town
-- Snidely Whiplash, er Tunney with his eye on the Hero's Girl
-- the 'good girl' working in the whore house mistaken for a whore
You'd almost thing he went to TVtropes.org and used the 'Western' page as a check list
but what does one expect from a project where the unknown Lead has a writing Credit... Starring the Writer is rarely if ever a good sign.