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The Wild Wild West
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The Wild Wild West
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011 18:43
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For a Coen Brothers movie, the violence in True Grit was pretty much non-violent, but in a good Unforgiven style of manner. True Grit features an impressive cast: Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn along with Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper. Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, a U.S. Marshall Gun-For-Hire, was iconic. He was perhaps as iconic as a true icon that once holstered a six-shooter in this role. Who was that? Man, it was The Duke. With a spot-on, Oscar-worthy performance, Bridges not only served up justice to the coward Tom Chaney, a murderer of a little girl's dad, but to The Duke as well.
True Grit (2010) is a remake of an earlier well-known John Wayne effort of the same title This version was as good as a western as I can remember in recent years. Dare I say this western is probably the best of this decade, but the decade is only a year old or so... Who knows what might come down the trail and shoot up the town between this year and another nine.
Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross was beyond charming and endearing. She struck a highly believable chord as a 14-year old kid who was smart and merely wanted to seek revenge on a dastardly man who murdered her father to bring balance to way things should be. However, you got the sense, that deep within her, there was buried emotion, but the emotion never surfaced except for subtle yet exceptionally poignant moments when you could see surprise and wonder sprout up in her eyes. She had "true grit" to the end, and in my opinion, this is the true grit in which the title truly refers.
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Monday, 28 December 2009 07:30
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I wish our town could hang a guy like Tuco. I would love to see if Blondie was that good of a shot. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a film that has become part of the western bullet-riddled fabric. It is like a sharp and piercing arrow in the chest area of a blood-stained poncho but, to be perfectly sure, there are no Commancheros murdering Mexicans, Texans and Tex-Mex kin in this flick. It wasn’t even filmed in America for that matter, but it is arguably the best American western ever made. How can that be you ask? It wasn’t even made in America? Is that some kind of blasphemy on the Duke? How old are you? Do you know who the Duke is?
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Re: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Aug 23 2011 14:05:46
I have always been a fan of Clint. I am not so much blown away by his acting but he is an actor that clearly understands what he does well, which is to generally be silent. He directs a great flick too.
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Aug 22 2011 12:02:58
Ahhhh, yes! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was another great movie, which I've seen more than once. Clint Eastwood (although I may not be crazy about his politics), is a good actor, and he played his part well, as did the other actors.
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Written by Kevin Meehan
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Sunday, 07 December 2008 00:00
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I’ll be the first to tell you that I don’t know a whole hell of a lot about westerns. I know there have been countless classic western movies that built the reputations of actors like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and…umm…Emilio Estevez (see: Young Guns). But I can’t claim to have seen all, or even a large portion, of them so when I say that Appaloosa, the 2008 release starring Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Irons, Renee Zellweger and Ed Harris who also directed and helped write the screenplay, was a pretty good film in my opinion. It’s no classic, I can say that with certainty, but as far as westerns go I can’t say it sucked either.
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 00:00
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Open Range, starring Kevin Costner as the subdued, melancholic, rather "Eastwood-like" Charlie, is the classic straightforward western hero in every sense of the genre. Don't expect too many surprises in Open Range, which Costner directs as well as stars in, but his play-it-close-to-the-vest approach to the western is refreshing and succeeds beautifully.
Robert Duval's "Boss" is his mentor, a man who for the most part is only an unwavering foundation of the old code of the west. Charlie, who carries with him a dark past and a skill for killing men, looks to Boss as a son would a father.
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