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Aug. 25th, 2003 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI watched Open Range tonight.
Boring story for the first hour and a half that felt dumbed down as simple as possible for the audience.
An abundance of cliches. Excellent acting of lame, predicatable dialogue. Totally stole the dog thing from Silverado, amongst many other so-called "homages" to older films.
The last hour had the best gun fight of any Western movie ever.
If they had only shown the gunfight from lead-in until finish, they'd have an Oscar-winning short film.
side note: my mom and I spent the last ten minutes on the ride home argueing whether the boy was supposed to have a French or Spanish accent. My vote was Spanish, but she insisted they'd said at some point that he was from New Orleans, and his accent was meant to be French.
Boring story for the first hour and a half that felt dumbed down as simple as possible for the audience.
An abundance of cliches. Excellent acting of lame, predicatable dialogue. Totally stole the dog thing from Silverado, amongst many other so-called "homages" to older films.
The last hour had the best gun fight of any Western movie ever.
If they had only shown the gunfight from lead-in until finish, they'd have an Oscar-winning short film.
side note: my mom and I spent the last ten minutes on the ride home argueing whether the boy was supposed to have a French or Spanish accent. My vote was Spanish, but she insisted they'd said at some point that he was from New Orleans, and his accent was meant to be French.
