Gave them a second chance and they improved.

Gave them a second chance and they improved. Apr 3, 2017 22:35:15 GMT joekiddlouischama likes this

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Post by Salzmank on Apr 3, 2017 22:35:15 GMT

Apr 1, 2017 10:56:38 GMT joekiddlouischama said:

Mar 31, 2017 12:30:47 GMT BATouttaheck said:

joekiddlouischama

Interesting collection. Care to elaborate on how they improved for you ( mentioning cinematic achievement seem to be a hint)?

Most of them (other than Kane) don't seem to be in the "I'm older and wiser now" category.

Having seen the trailer for The Lone Ranger I have given it a pass. I started to watch The Wild Wild West and abandoned it rather quickly, tried again and still a "nope".

The Will Smith thing, you mean? I remember when it came out in the summer of 1999, but it has never interested in me. Since TBS is airing the film a week from now, though, I may give it a chance.

If you possess a historical interest in Westerns, The Lone Ranger might interest you. The film features homages to several Westerns from the past, and its fatalistic theme about the tragic saga of Native Americans is quite stirring and poignant. Of course, this theme is nothing new—Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and others have covered it long before—but it receives a refreshing rendition in The Lone Ranger, and the film's ability to blend it with the movie's droll, pyrotechnical high jinx proves surprisingly effective. At the same time, that blend is not quite seamless, and I found it too chaotic after a first viewing. But I found the mix much easier to digest upon a second screening, and I ultimately viewed The Lone Ranger four times in the theater.

All of your comments here were great, Joe. I greatly appreciated reading them. There's no need to respond to all of them--your points are first-class and need no elaboration--but I'd like to make one point and then back you up on another.

First, as for The Wild Wild West remake, I of course advise you to see it yourself and make up your own mind, but I find it a plodding, plotless mess of a movie (which is too bad, as the TV series is great fun). The only enjoyable aspects of it, in my opinion, were the proto-steampunk technology and Kenneth Branagh's scenery-chewing, wildly over-the-top performance as Dr. Loveless. (But, then, I like Branagh's performance in just about anything.) The picture positively reeked of a studio trying and failing to make a quick buck by cashing in on a nostalgic franchise.

Second, as for The Lone Ranger, I believed the reviews (more fool I!) and didn't see The Lone Ranger in theaters, but I did see it afterwards, and it's quite good. Not excellent, I think, but for a big-budget, popcorn movie Western made in the year 2013--really good. And the climax, drawing on sources as disparate as Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, was a thing of wonder. Probably too long, as is Verbinski's wont, but I really enjoyed every moment of it.