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3:10 To Yuma Remake--possibly not horrible

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is it just me, or do the people in Hollywood just not have any new ideas these days or something?

I just think there aren't as many good writers out there today. I watched the remake of "The Omen" the other day because someone recommended it. It was OK, but I couldn't put my finger on why I was so luke warm about it until it hit me...........the guy playing the father wasn't Gregory Peck! He just couldn't carry the part off the same way.
 
I soooo wanna see this movie. Ditto the Christian Bale thing. I've been a fan of pretty much every one of his movies. I truly think he and Ed Norton are two of the better actors of their generation.
 
It's out in theaters now, correct? If so, I may have to find one and see it.
 
Paul Newman

It's not Paul Newman it's peter "captain america" fonda...
Don't know if that changes your excitement...

And yes it's out as of yesterday.

My Great Grandfather was an Arizona Ranger and he transported prisoners he captured all over Arizona to Yuma. He was a rancher in his "spare" time. The family still has his badge. Having not seen the original, I saw the preview for this one and immediately thought of some of Grandpa Joes stories!

Color me Excited!
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i have got to say, i really enjoyed this movie. it sure wasnt lacking on kill count. since i hadnt seen the origional and the storyline was completely origional to me, it really kept me on the edge of my seat. i really cant say enough good things about it. i guess it was a little dark with all the killing, but thats to be expected in a modern movie.
 
The rifle with the scope was a revolver, not a Whitworth (with all due respect). I was determined to notice after seeing the observation in the earlier post. The Ben Foster character packed a brace of Schofields. He did a great job of being a real dangerous camote (that's a clean word incidentally). The only part I couldn't buy was the motivations driving Ben Wade, and his subsequent actions. All he had to do was refuse to go along at some points. As far as the guns were concerned, somebody really did their homework. Any officiniado of Old West weaponry will enjoy it regardless of the contextual incongruities.
 
What a great movie I just got back from seeing it.

As always Bale doesn't fail to deliver and neither does Crowe. From beginning to end this movie had me and I walked thinking, wow that was one hell of a movie. Can't wait for the DVD to appear on shelves so I can add it to my collection!
 
Remakes or sequels. The money men like sure things...
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http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs31/feat_charity_wayne.html
...You can pinpoint the precise moment John Wayne became a bone fide movie star. It occurs 15 minutes into Stagecoach (1939), when we first see the Ringo Kid in the desert, a saddle over his shoulder, twirling his Winchester rifle in one hand as if it were a toothpick. Personally and professionally invested in Wayne—he had passed up Gary Cooper for the role—Ford seals the deal by dollying in for a close up.

To quote Robert Mitchum: “Most actors handle guns on screen like they’re cap pistols… A real gun is a very serious instrument. It has serious implications and terrible consequences, so you want to handle a gun like that…If you do this, your character gets real in a hurry—it steals the reality of the gun. That’s movie acting: you steal the reality of the props and control the pace of the pictures.”...
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Stagecoach 2008!
Starring WHO as a replacement for Marion Morrison (John Wayne) as Ringo Kid in the eventual reamke of the classic "Stagecoach"?
-Harrison Ford? -- Ringo "Grandpa"
-Justin Timberlake? -- Ringo "Flash in the Pan" (a gun reference - and extremely appropriate, I hope for this talentless ...uh-hem...guy).
-Leonardo DeCaprio - MIGHT actually be OK. If he does not contractually add a 30 minute documentory on the evils of the internal combustion engine to a horse opera.
 
3:10 to Yuma - good movie, they did a good job with the costumes, guns and period atmosphere. Give it four and a half bags and hope it does well so there will be more Westerns. The thing is there are some really good real stories out there that and would make great Westen movies today.

As to a Stagecoach remake my thoughts are:

Di Caprio :barf:

But, Matthew McConaughey might be able to pull off being the Ringo Kid.
 
It's not Paul Newman it's peter "captain america" fonda...
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Wow huge brain fart on my part.

Don't know how I confused the two in my head.

Yeah it is Peter Fonda not Paul Newman.
 
Anachronisms R Us

Saw it. Liked it- mostly. It was muddled in places…

As for the hardware, anachronisms abounded. The story is set three years after the Civil War, I’m guessing, because Dan Evans says of his war wound: “I’ve been standing on one leg for three years.” And yet Colt SAAs and Schofields abound. I thought I also saw a slide action hammerless shotgun (When Ben Wade is first captured in Brisbee) and gosh, was that a Ruger Old Army in stainless steel I saw the lawman carrying before the bad guys burned him alive in the coach?

Hope I'm wrong.

LG Roy
 
Just got around to watching this movie tonight. Pretty good. There were a few parts where things didn't quite make sense (and one part where a double barrel shotgun magically turns into a three shooter), but other than that it was excellent.

Library: I saw the pump action and thought it was out of place as well. I was looking for a hammer, but couldn't see one (they kept the action pretty well covered) so I couldn't tell for sure what the heck it was.

Anyone know what kind of rifle Evans was carrying?
 
Saw it twice, sound track for me was tough. Some of the scenes were very whisper'y, bad hearing on my part. borrowed a set of head phones no good:uhoh:

I'll have to wait till it hits DVD to see the "close caption's". One I'll see again for sure. Sam Peckenpah would have liked it:what:
 
I don't think I saw the Spencer fired once, not once, dagnabbit!

When he made the "3 years on one leg" comment I took it to mean just the time they were living on that ranch, trying to make a go of it. Yes, if it was 3 years after the war, there were many guns of the wrong era. And yes, I did see the pump shotgun. Was the 1897 Winchester the very first pump shotgun on the market?

Seeker_two, great joke about Fonda!

Bart Noir
 
Bart...yeah, I kept waiting for him to use it. It WASN'T ever used. You'd figure a sharpshooter from the Civil War would make better use of his rifles.
 
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