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Summary: An over-the-top cynical Western with EVERYTHING!
Review: Quick! Name every cliche in the Western genre ... Did you include madame with heart of gold? Bucket brigade? Hotheaded quick-draw artist? This movie overflows with good-hearted love of the genre and stars Linda Hunt, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Brian Denehe, Kevin Kline, and many others. Just good fun!
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Summary: Just Fantastic -- Great for the whole family
Review: This is a classic western with great action and comedy. I recommed it for families with teenage children. There are a few scenes which are sexually oriented but no worse than many popular TV shows on the networks today.
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Summary: This ain't no hum-drum western, Pilgrim.
Review: Action from the onset. See a quick draw Kevin Costner before he got drowned in Waterworld. Danny Glover is an unlikely side-kick to Kevin Kline who is as unlikely a cowpoke as well, considering some of his later movies (A Fish Called Wanda, In and Out, et al). If that ain't enough, see John Cleese (another Fish member) as a dapper gun totin' sheriff. That was pushing the envelope for me but it did work, sorta. (For some reason all I could hear was, "And now for something completely different.") Brian Dennehy, a bad apple sheriff, is the villan who manages to incite all the compadres ire in some fashion. A bit on the long side but it should keep your interest from the beginning. One of my favorite westerns.
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Summary: Great western music.
Review: The music is great fun and tells the story of Silverado as well as the movie does. The music contains all the good western elements: right vs. wrong, romantic moves, celebration of victory, and riding off into the sunset. You can hear the fun of Kevin Costner as Jake, the dry humor of Kevin Kline as Paden, the moral fight of Danny Glover as Mal, and the heroics of Scoot Glenn as Emmett. Great barbecue and house-cleaning music.
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Summary: A cool western movie
Review: "Silverado" is a really good movie it has a lot of action.
I really liked this movie even though I don't like western movies because western movies always has the typical good guys fighting the bad guys for justice, but "Silverado" has something unique that makes it different from the others western movies maybe its because "Silverado" has drama, adventures, action, comedy and romance. The soundtrack makes it feel like the real old west. The music fits with the film perfect. I really liked the story of the movie. A lone cowboy trapped in a desert cabin, pinned down by the bad guys, he must shoot his way out with the help of three more guys. These now become friends and heroes as they go after thieves, protect a wagon train of homesteaders, save their families and friends from the land gruubbing Mckendricks, and fight corrupt lawmen. The scene that I liked the most is when Linda Hunt says "He can't hurt you , if he is dead". (she said that to a frightened employee). Anyways you should see this movie if you haven't seen it, but if you have seen it well buy the dvd IT'S WORTH IT.
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Summary: good for any person
Review: I'm not a fan of westerns but "Silverado" was a good one. It had a lot of action and it never became boring. A good movie to me is something I can watch over and over and not get bored I wouldn't mind watching it again. "Silverado" in my opinion had something unique to it, it had an African American and it had someone funny in it too. Not all westerns had a cowboy that was funny, they where all serious and I think that more western movies should be like "Silverado" in some way. Jake ( Kevin Costner ) was my favorite character and my favorite quote was said bye him too! "All I did was kiss a girl" I like this quote because he said it funny and it's the reason why he got in trouble. Well the sound track in the film was in my opinion to dramatic, but it wasn't to bad it fit into the movie perfect but they should tone it down just a bit. But Silverado over all was a great movie and I recommend that you at least see it once.
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Summary: The Best of The Modern Westerns
Review: I'll tell you how much I like this movie. I bought the VHS and soundtrack no more than six weeks ago and upon discovering its DVD availability, I immediately hit "1-Click". I can't think of another Western in the 15 years since this film was released that I enjoyed more, not even "Lonesome Dove", and that's saying a lot. I was praying that it would be released on DVD and it's nice to know my prayers were answered. The cast is one of the finest of the mid-Eighties: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, John Cleese, and Brian Dennehy. And these are just the principals. Silverado is a sweeping Western demi-epic that takes some classic genre cliches and weaves them into a modern classic, emboldened by Bruce Boughton's masterful score. The master of this all is co-writer and director Lawrence Kasdan, who has given us some other gems like "Body Heat" and "The Big Chill". This DVD release is great news and the only thing that could make me happier is to find that additional scenes featuring Rosanna Arquette, deleted from the theatrical release, appear somewhere on the DVD.
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Summary: One bad movie
Review: Sadly, I was not all that impressed by this movie. The dialogue in this movie leaves much to be desired, and the overall feel of this movie is more along the lines of a made for TV movie. I have to admit that I'm not an avid Western movie watcher, but still, I've seen many that are much better than Silverado. I will never waste my time watching this movie again.
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Summary: This movie had serious star-power
Review: Think about it, here you got these four heroes riding along together, Scott Glenn, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner and Danny Glover. All of them develop their characters admirably and a compelling plot emerges as the bad guys, the McKendricks try to prevent the open range being closed up by new settlers.
So many of the supporting cast are great as well. John Cleese with his role as a sheriff, and Brian Dennehy as the former bad guy now a sheriff and in the employ of the McKendricks add an interesting element to the movie. On top of all this, you get Jeff Goldblum in the mix as a two-faced gambler and there is a great deal of intrique going on.
I admit I also like the score to the movie. Reminiscent of the score for the old TV series "How the West Was Won", I expected to see Zebulon McCahan show up to save the day. This movie has alot of universal appeal that critics sometimes miss. I highly recommend this movie.
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Summary: More subtle than any real western.
Review: The odd thing about SILVERADO is that it was panned by critics and didn't do well in the theatres and more than once I've heard it referred to as a flop. That's so weird, since I thought it was a really GOOD show, as did everybody I knew! I'm not a fan of Westerns, but my father is; he liked it for being a Western, and I liked it for having a combination of good acting and often subtle, very droll humor that no 'old' Western I've ever seen has had. (And the music is as inspiring, in a trumpeting-western way, as the Pirates of the Carribean theme was in a more orchestral way.) It manages to combine the qualities and basic plot of an old western, with the better moviemaking/drama of a modern movie, with a rather more mature--in my opinion--combination of elements, from humor to intimacy, than are found in many movies of any kind let alone that genre. I was sorry that some of the romance was left on the editor's floor, as there was a small but noticeable nonsequiter in plot as a result (the reason I give it 4 stars, not 5). I really recommend this movie. It's both tragic and fun, action-oriented and sometimes funny.
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