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Open Range (2003)
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Movies on TV 07/08/08
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"Two westerns on AMC show strong men grappling with the loss of freedom and dignity. The Shootist is John Wayne’s last film, and though the Duke is normally invincible in his movies, this one begins with the premise that he’s dying of cancer. He sets one last goal for himself–to die in a shootout. Then there’s Open Range, the rare film that Kevin Costner is perfect for. Costner plays a haunted Civil War veteran of a killing persuasion, which he unleashes when a friend is cruelly beaten by a group of trigger-happy thugs. Also featuring the excellent Annette Benning and Robert Duvall, and one of the most intense gun battles I’ve ever seen on film. If westerns aren’t your thing, you’ve got the classic Jason and the Argonauts playing on TCM. Not everything about the film has aged well, but Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion skeletons still give me the creeps. Also playing tonight is the Samuel L. Jackson vehicle S.W.A.T. I only saw the last twenty minutes of it at a drive-in, but if that’s s ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Western
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"The Western Top 10 is the toughest for me. As some of you may know, while I'm hardly Richard Slotkin or Jane Tompkins, I write, teach, and think about this genre on a regular basis, and, as a result, my views are not only fairly strong, but well-informed. And, where certain well regarded classics are concerned, they are also iconoclastic. This is probably nowhere more obvious than with The Searchers (1956), the film that tops the AFI list. This film does not resonate with me on any level. I have never found the ending credible. John Wayne does not portray Ethan Edwards with any of the complexity needed for his embrace of Debbie (Natalie Wood) to ring true after his 118 (or so) minutes of hard, racist ranting about Native Americans and his intent to kill her. I also find the photography and production design to be garish without purpose, and for all of its superficial sophistication about Native peoples, the talk of ritual, the use of indigenous language, it only serves to perpetuat ... "
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"OPEN RANGE (2003) ****R for violence.2 hrs. 18 min.written by: Craig Storper (screenplay) & Laruan Paine (novel, The Open Range Men)produced by: Kevin Costner, Jake Eberts & David Valdesdirected by: Kevin Costner I like it when I find myself sitting in a movie theater watching a film and actually realize that I'm really enjoying the experience. That was the case on a one hot summer day in August back in 2003, when I watched this movie. I remember sitting there thinking how I'd love to get away and live off the vast open plains as I maintained and defended what was mine. I also remember thinking about how this film would be received. I knew that most peop "
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Old School Western
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"Here's the most basic way to put it: It's a classic western. If you truly liked the spaghetti Westerns or more classic testosterone laden flicks like the Dirty Dozen, or Death Hunt---- you will enjoy this film. If you don't like the old school manly tales were a cursing, drinking, fighting, every-man wins the day rather than some roid laden pretty boy---- you won't like this movie.That was the litmus test amongst everyone that saw this film. I know a lot of people that hated it, but they never liked the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly or Lonesome Dove. However, my friends and I saw this film in the theatre two days in a row (something we never did before or since). "
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