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Summary: This is a brilliant movie.
Review: This movie stands shoulder to shoulder with "Giant" and "The Last Picture Show." Woody Harrelson has a power that matches any male performance, anytime, anywhere. This is twentieth-century Texas and New Mexico, as anyone who is familiar with that region will know. The dialogue is at all times poetic and haunting, particularly the barroom scene where "Big Boy" speaks with Greek eloquence about the "bottom" possessed by a Bucephalas-like horse named "Old Sorrel."It is inexplicable why this movie is not being spoken of as a great classic. David W. Lee leelawok@ionet.net
Rating:
Summary: This is a brilliant movie.
Review: This movie stands shoulder to shoulder with "Giant" and "The Last Picture Show." Woody Harrelson has a power that matches any male performance, anytime, anywhere. This is twentieth-century Texas and New Mexico, as anyone who is familiar with that region will know. The dialogue is at all times poetic and haunting, particularly the barroom scene where "Big Boy" speaks with Greek eloquence about the "bottom" possessed by a Bucephalas-like horse named "Old Sorrel." It is inexplicable why this movie is not being spoken of as a great classic. David W. Lee leelawok@ionet.net
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Summary: Authentic dying Old Southwest
Review: What critics can't understand is that this is the way these ranch people were and still are. I was partly brought up on a ranch in West Texas, near the Hi Lo country in New Mexico. Ranch People really do have names like big boy and little boy and often speak in a slow taciturn way like Billy's character. And there are a few wild ones like the Woody Harrelson character. What the film portrays is the genuine hardness of life and human relationships in this lonely stark ranching environment, which was even more so in the time portrayed. I have met all these characters many times in real life and this film touched my heart for a way of life which is still painfully dying. The film is a great slice of American life. I will be interested in seeing what the same critics make of the soon to be released All the Pretty Horses, similar in many ways and also filmed in New Mexico. Critics, how about some respect for new Westerns that do not star Clint Eastwood and lots of violence or showcase sentimental Robert Redford?
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Summary: Flawed vision of High Plains life
Review: What starts out as a structured narrative disappointingly winds up as a messy fragmented sequence of episodic and not 'logically' connected vignettes; to wit, starts out turgid, ends up flaccid. Well and lushly photographed with a concentration on Peter Head-influenced close-ups in raking light; so overall, including the vistas of an empty open land, it is imagistically succesfull. The leads do their best (alas) but the directorial reins should have been a lot tighter. The credits give New Mexico as the locale but the towns scenes where all shot in Prichett, Colorado -- what gives?
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Summary: How typical!!!!....
Review: Without the perfect cast, this movie could easily be a flop.
But Patricia Arquette is here so beautiful and Woody Harrelson had never played better. Buy Buy Buy!!!!!
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