The cinema experience in the USA is officially dead

LOL. But seriously, after watching the worst "western" I have ever seen (it is on Netflix) I feel the way I do. At the end, it reveals that a tiny black lesbian gal is the fastest gunslinger in the West (not that it looks or feels like the west). Not only is the film poorly made and badly acted (Edris Elba phones in his performance and looks like he would rather be somewhere else), but the ill fitting anachronistic soundtrack truly sucks. The film - which drags on forever, is called THE HARDER THEY FALL and should be avoided like the plague by anybody who loves films and especially the western genre. If you really need to see a picture called THE HARDER THEY FALL make sure it's the one starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger.

Bull-fucking-shit PaulsLaugh. Watch THE HARDER THEY FALL, and you will understand.

These lesbian gunslingers look like internet influencers to me, all styled up in frontier drag. I wouldn’t take this movie too seriously. It’s as contrived as The Gunfire at the O.K. Corral. The Harder the Fall is billed as a “revisionist western,” so they are not hiding what they’re doing. And the western is generally a romantic ahistorical genre anyway and this one is for the 21st century, millennial gaze. 

While African Americans played a huge role in the development of the Pioneer West, they were rarely depicted as such by Hollywood. I see this film as pandering to black peoples’ fantasies much the same way as hundreds of Hollywood Westerns have used John Wayne to fulfill the white hero gaze. 

I also grew up in a post-apartheid culture. And being colorblind is hope, not a condition. You just complained about a black revisionist western meant to appeal to a black audience as ruining your film going experience. My smartass line is about white people no longer being the sole demographic who go to the movies tailored for them now.

Expect more of these movies and it is not being driven by Woke culture so much as Hollywood seeking new revenue streams. So it is capitalism causing this, not the liberals. 

You may be right, but it will kill the cinema-going experience stone dead, and it will soon be a case of No Bucks, No Buck Rogers. The numbers never li, so please don't talk utter drivel about "capitalism causing this" - it's the studios listening to a handful of woketards and trannie activists on social media causing this . BTW. What do you think Black cinemagoers in SA have wanted to see in the years since Democracy arrived?
THE HARDER THEY FALL was directed by a young Black British singer songwriter who previously made a barely released 51-minute long piece of mediocre shit called They Die Before Dawn. So, on the strength of his utterly failed first film, Netflix gave this dickhead millions of dollars to realize his dream of making an totally crap, unrealistic and pathetically scored, acted and scripted woke western? Giving mediocre, inexperienced black filmmakers money to make rubbish is not going put bums on seats.  

BTW, The Oscar winning classics UNFORGIVEN and DANCES WITH WOLVES are genuine "revisionist" westerns. I wonder if you even know why PaulsLaugh?


 

It's a shitty, mediocre film PaulsLaugh, that's all it is. But no doubt Netflix will soon release one of those unintentionally hilarious press statements calling it a great success and celebrating how 50 million of their subscribers watched at least 2 minutes of THEY Harder They Fall.

I’m not judging the quality of the film. But the OP title is “The cinema experience in the USA is officially dead.” And you use this movie as an example of woke bullshit inferring in the classic motion picture experience. 

First off, this is a Netflix streaming production, therefore not “cinema.” By cinema, I think “moviegoing” as in going to the movies, an experience in, and of, itself. Second, this is revisionist history, not history. Inglorious Bastards is not history, but by twisting historical film tropes, the filmmakers attempt to comment on history and/or modern society’s current desires. And they are free to tell their narrative from their POV. You don’t have to agree with it. Movies can only indoctrinate a person if he or she lets it. 

What I see here is a confusion of genres and your personal dislike of this movie. I know the feeling when they just get up under your skin. Dances with Wolves does that to me. Liberal movies can be cloying like Lawrence Kasdan or spot on like Alan J Pakula. 

Your movie review rating is your opinion and I didn’t think movie was that great either, they get too millennial referency for me. I liked the cast. Jonathan Majors should do more westerns. But, I see this an no funeral dirge. 

News of the World is also streaming on HBOMax, made last year and it is a classic Western with all necessaries. 

Let’s agree to disagree.  







 

Do watch this latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm - in which Larry takes the piss out of Netflix`s diverse group of product selectors.

I did enjoy News of the World very much - which is more of a Post Civil War period piece (or what QT would call a Southern) than a straight western , but just for the record book, Old Henry (2021) is the best western of recent years.