Toni & I went to the movies Sunday night and watched the new western that just came out called Appaloosa. The movie was so/so. I'm a huge fan of westerns and the directing done by Ed Harris was good and the acting by Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, and Jeremy Irons was good. But the story itself just lacked something...it's one of those movies that you leave from and you just don't feel that you got the full movie experience. Usually westerns it's pretty easy to follow the motives of the characters but in this movie I found it difficult to follow the motives behind the main character played by Ed Harris. Parts of the movie he was a "bad ass" then in other parts I just couldn't figure out what the heck he was thinking. It just made for a somewhat poor storyline.
I don't want to get into it too much because I don't like telling the story of these movies and ruining it for others but I will say that if you haven't seen the movie yet I would just wait till DVD. It's good enough to rent, not good enough to pay $8 or so to sit in crappy seats in our theatre here in P-Burg.
If you have seen it let me know what your thoughts of the movie were.
Debian Jessie Preseed – Yes, please
7 years ago
2 comments:
Thanks for watching it so I didn't have to ;-)
I usually like Ed Harris. He's got a nice kind of subtlety to his acting. I really liked him in The Truman Show, and he was great in A Beautiful Mind. Maybe his next stuff will be better.
I really like him as well, and was really excited to see this flick. That being said he really did do a pretty go job directing and his acting seemed good, I think it was the story itself that was flawed. Luckily his acting was able to keep the movie from stinking ;)
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