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Here ya go, kids.¬† At last a movie with real potential that’s right around the bend. Premiering at Toronto, and opening in the US the first week of October.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3TaAPELkQ[/youtube]
Here ya go, kids.¬† At last a movie with real potential that’s right around the bend. Premiering at Toronto, and opening in the US the first week of October.
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Saw Appaloosa last night and this may sound harsh, but I believe that (Academy Award winner) Renee Zellweger’s performance will kill this otherwise terrific film’s Oscar chances. She takes what is probably on paper an intriguing take on a female Western character and completely Zellwegerizes it. Any other actress–and by that I mean, including Sharon Stone and Demi Moore–would have done more with this role. And from her first closeup you think: “How the camera hates this face.” Bummer.
How did I miss that Jeremy Irons was in this film? Viggo AND Jeremy?! Ed gets kudos just for that brilliant casting. I love that Viggo is at full speed right on the verge of 50. This will lay the way for THE ROAD. ; )
anyways, if you make me choose a ed harris performance i might go with THE HOURS or A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, but thats me
Viggo Mortensen is a true chameleon, physically unrecognizable and badass as always.
RRA: My brain sort of skipped over the word American and saw the words best, actor, NOT, Oscar. Something about those words in the same sentence always makes my brain immediately think of Gary Oldman.
sonnymoscoso – Yeah I am…all those guys you mentioned are great, but I guess after several nominations over the years, and should have won perhaps for POLLOCK or TRUMAN SHOW or even goddman RIGHT STUFF, Ed Harris is like a less-glorified Paul Newman at this point: Everyone agrees that he is fucking awesome…except for the Academy.
Oh and Saltire Flower, last I checked…..Oldman aint American. World-wide, perhaps you can make a case for him, but in terms of American actors, I say its still Harris.
Looks tasty, I like it when genres make come backs and westerns return every couple years, hopefully this wont be the end of this come back.
Movies like 3:10 to Yuma and the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada have gotten me excited about westerns so I’m excited for this.
And the Best Working actor today to not have won an Oscar is Gary Oldman. They haven’t even nominated the man.
RRA:
Ed Harris Best Working actor today NOT having an oscar???? have you seen Edward Norton, Matt Damon (Acting Oscar) or Leonardo Dicaprio?
I condemn this movie – by trailer alone – to the wrath of Tufas
Awards? Maybe it can pull 2 or 3 noms: one for a cast member, provided the rest pf the year sucks balls, and maybe the usual for a modern cinema western, you know, like costumes or cinematography.
No Country / There Will Be Blood / Jesse James this ain’t
Seems very similar to OPEN RANGE, but Viggo is a step up from Costner, as good as he was in that movie.
Ryan, well technically the original “American West” was West beyond that of the Appalachian Mountains. That folklore of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett from the “wild frontier” of Kentucky and Tennessee? There you go.
Another recent western I liked, if not as quality-pleasing as the others mentioned already, was SERAPHIM FALLS with Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. Sorta a clunky narrative with some well-shot sequences and low budget, but I liked it.
It looks pretty good, although it doesn’t look like it will be breaking any new ground. I mean how many different versions of the “You’ll be the first person to die” mob suppression scenes have there been over the years?
RRA, I could say that The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford isn’t strictly a “western” since (I think) most of it took place in Missouri and Kentucky. Or I could fess up and say I forgot about it. Or I could totally kick up a dust cloud and say, Hey, What about There Will Be Blood?
Was the old Lonesome Dove DVD full-frame, SeattleMoviegoer? It’s around here someplace; mislaid; I haven’t see it for a few years. Remastered Gus and Woodrow is good news indeed.
The western just seems to be the perfect genre for Ed Harris. He should have started making them years ago. Plus, Viggo Mortensen can’t seem to do wrong these days.
this looks terrific. but, i must add, the big news in westerns is the release this week of LONESOME DOVE on DVD and blue ray. the past DVDs were pitiful, cheap things. they have remastered it with wide screen and better sound.
uh oh, this sounds like a press release.
i’m just excited about it. it’s my favorite western of all time.
I can’t wait! Viggo in a western. Oh my lord, hurry up and release this movie!
Looks pretty exciting, from what one can tell. I have to agree with the previous comments; not just the return of Westerns, but DAMN GOOD Westerns, is a thing to celebrate. Also good to see Jeremy Irons get back into the light, a bit-last thing I saw he was any good in was the Elizabeth miniseries on televison, which seems a while back.
Ryan ,don’t forget THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES with Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck.
Anyway, APPALOOSA looks promisingly good, and you know what?
Ed Harris is probably America’s best working actor today to NOT have won an Oscar. Sorry Mr. Depp, but Harris is just awesome personified. Who else decked James Cameron on a movie set?
Thinking the same thing, Ryan Griffin. Not just any westerns, either. Some of the best ever.
3:10 to Yuma
The Proposition
& I count Deadwood too.
I LOVE that westerns have made their triumphant return these last couple of years.