3:10 to Yuma

[Will]

I'm looking really forward to this, when I saw the ads though I thought Christian Bale was going to play the dude with the cool leather jacket and the guns with Russel Crowe as the good guy.

It's been a while since a good western came out.

[g0zen]

They were showing the original 3:10 to Yuma on tne Westerns Channel the other night. Definitely not on par with John Ford's stuff.

Also, if these bastards ever try to remake one of the awesome revisionist Westerns, I'll be pissed. The Wild Bunch should be holy ground, and I can already imagine the horror of a Michael Bay remake with twice the explosions.

[YellerDog]

I know. but how many people actually know its a Remake?


JBNagis

And it's already been remade. (as a TV show at least)

[The_Meach]

After Unforgiven, Westerns don't have anything new to offer, but I'll check out anything with Crowe in it.

[Nash]

As an aside, could someone explain to me why people find remakes so offensive (outside of lack of originality)? So what if a remake turns out really bad? It's not like the original ceases to exist or is no longer the same movie.

[Drewbacca]

They don't want Hollywood making horrible remakes of old movies. They want Hollywood to make horrible new movies period.

This movie looks awesome, by the way. Westerns don't need to offer anything new, they're great as is. Hollywood just needed to take a break from them for a couple of decades. They'll be back.

[JM]

After Unforgiven, Westerns don't have anything new to offer

This is a sad ass statement.

Try The Proposition. Not as good as Unforgiven, but if we gave up on the genere after a good film was made in it, they could have quit after "Once Upon a Time in the West".

The Propostition has Guy Pearce, and is set in the Australian outback in the same time frame as the old west. Written by Nick Cave, I really loved the whole thing.

JM

[Spanky McGee]

This is a sad ass statement.

Try The Proposition. Not as good as Unforgiven, but if we gave up on the genere after a good film was made in it, they could have quit after "Once Upon a Time in the West".

The Propostition has Guy Pearce, and is set in the Australian outback in the same time frame as the old west. Written by Nick Cave, I really loved the whole thing.

JM

My friend recently watched The Proposition. He said nothing but good things about it.

[The_Meach]

This is a sad ass statement.

I just don't see why another Western needs to be made following Unforgiven. The movie closed the book on the genre (name another film that closed out an entire genre).

Nothing more can be said about the genre; that doesn't mean I won't watch Crowe being Crowe.

I should clarify that it's not that Unforgiven is just a good Western. It's that the film pulls all the disparate themes of Westerns together and puts them to bed. The lone gunman; the quest for vengeance; the "Western" mode of justice...all of those themes are dealt with (convincingly) by Unforgiven. There is nothing more to be said after Unforgiven (besides yet MORE shootouts and omgcool"Iwantyoulonegunman!" scenes).

The film, more than any other, ever, closed the book on an entire genre.

We can always use another Heist movie (as unbelievably awesome as Heat is), another Gangster movie (as unbelievably awesome as Godfather I and II are), another Buddy-cop movie (as unbelievably awesome as Lethal Weapon is), another Spy movie (as unbelievably awesome as Ronin is)....

Nothing will ever surpass Unforgiven; it closes the book on the entire genre.

[g0zen]

The real point is that the revisionist Westerns have come and gone (The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, etc.) and what we have here will never really be a Western in the traditional sense. The best it can hope for is the role of homage.