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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 1:27:13 GMT
Go see this in theaters when you can! Outstanding directorial debut and just an all around good to great film. I highly recommend it. Renner is aces in this (probably his best performance to date so far)
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Post by Nora on Aug 14, 2017 1:58:17 GMT
Go see this in theaters when you can! Outstanding directorial debut and just an all around good to great film. I highly recommend it. Renner is aces in this (probably his best performance to date so far) Cant wait to see this, going later this week. Love Taylor Sheridan as writer, hoped he would be as good of a director. Glad to see this recommendation.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 14, 2017 14:27:08 GMT
Looked pretty suspenseful. Glad to hear it. I just want to see Sheridan make a true classic western now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 16:34:17 GMT
Looked pretty suspenseful. Glad to hear it. I just want to see Sheridan make a true classic western now. Oh it is. It features a Mexican stand off that had my heart racing. Sheridan is gonna be a force as a director.
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Post by formersamhmd on Aug 17, 2017 13:11:53 GMT
Is this general release, or one of those limited Indie film releases?
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Post by politicidal on Aug 17, 2017 16:09:57 GMT
Is this general release, or one of those limited Indie film releases? I think it's a general release.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 17:06:22 GMT
Is this general release, or one of those limited Indie film releases? Hmm not sure really. I was lucky it was playing close by but only in one theater. And I happen to live in one of the biggest cities in the United States haha. It seems like they are gradually releasing it to more areas (kinda like Hell or High Water)
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Post by eplay on Aug 22, 2017 0:43:20 GMT
Saw it this weekend and thought it was a really good film! Jeremy Renner is made for this type of role and milieu, and Elizabeth Olsen is always excellent. The supporting characters were well cast. Some very suspenseful scenes.
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Post by SciFive on Aug 23, 2017 16:31:00 GMT
Ok, I'm going to have to see this one.
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Post by moviemanjackson on Aug 24, 2017 3:18:39 GMT
This is really good! Saw today. Kind of a slow, elongated 1st act, but it's build to the rest of the movie. Renner is awesome, so is Gil Birmingham who was in Sheridan's HoHW.
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Post by SciFive on Aug 24, 2017 3:38:15 GMT
This is really good! Saw today. Kind of a slow, elongated 1st act, but it's build to the rest of the movie. Renner is awesome, so is Gil Birmingham who was in Sheridan's HoHW. Gil Birmingham was in the Twilight series with at least one of the actresses in Wind River. Her name is Julia Jones and she played the one woman in Twilight who could turn into a wolf.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 4:25:29 GMT
I have to see this. Getting pretty great response on here.
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Post by Nora on Aug 25, 2017 20:48:51 GMT
Looked pretty suspenseful. Glad to hear it. I just want to see Sheridan make a true classic western now. Oh it is. It features a Mexican stand off that had my heart racing. Sheridan is gonna be a force as a director. exactly. that was one of the best mexican stand offs i have seen in the cinema in a long time. I especially liked that it came out of fucking nowhere! it was so well shot, both the timing and the acting. as well as the aftermath of it . that was some great 10 minutes of cinematography that scene. loved it.
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Post by Nora on Aug 25, 2017 20:50:17 GMT
I have to see this. Getting pretty great response on here. you really do have to. just came back from the screening and it was wonderful. fairly simple premise but excellent execution. its not always that I remain engaged and fully entertained throughout the entirety of a movie, but this was really had my full attention the whole time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 21:56:10 GMT
I have to see this. Getting pretty great response on here. you really do have to. just came back from the screening and it was wonderful. fairly simple premise but excellent execution. its not always that I remain engaged and fully entertained throughout the entirety of a movie, but this was really had my full attention the whole time. I'll try to watch it tonight or tomorrow it definitely has me interested. I haven't heard much about it outside of here though.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Aug 25, 2017 22:37:58 GMT
I enjoyed it but, aside from a couple scenes, didn't find it suspenseful at all. Doesn't deliver as either a mystery or a chase. And listening to Jeremy Renner mumble all the way through it tried my patience.
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Post by Nora on Aug 25, 2017 23:29:16 GMT
I enjoyed it but, aside from a couple scenes, didn't find it suspenseful at all. Doesn't deliver as either a mystery or a chase. And listening to Jeremy Renner mumble all the way through it tried my patience. I agree with the mumbling part. I also found it very difficult to understand him at certain moments - but thought it was just me and the fact I am not a native english speaker. Unlike you, I found it very suspenseful. Even thought it was not very action-oriented. But then again I don't think it was meant to be. But to me it was very mysterious and suspenseful - but in a very different way than a typical mystery/drama normally is. And with much fewer cliches. That part I really liked. I was worried that they would milk the dead daughter much more especially in the end, or that he would turn out to have mercy and I was glad to see they stayed away from both. It is probably a movie I will see again soon. That shoot-out, chase and the running away in the snow in particular was just awesome. I want to see and enjoy that again for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 23:54:48 GMT
Oh it is. It features a Mexican stand off that had my heart racing. Sheridan is gonna be a force as a director. exactly. that was one of the best mexican stand offs i have seen in the cinema in a long time. I especially liked that it came out of fucking nowhere! it was so well shot, both the timing and the acting. as well as the aftermath of it . that was some great 10 minutes of cinematography that scene. loved it. yeah! flat out awesome scene. Glad you dug it. I do agree with the other poster regarding some scenes where hard to understand certain characters (esp Renner in certain scenes) I had to listen closely and still missed some dialogue here and there but thats just a minor complaint from me.
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Post by Nora on Aug 26, 2017 19:23:21 GMT
exactly. that was one of the best mexican stand offs i have seen in the cinema in a long time. I especially liked that it came out of fucking nowhere! it was so well shot, both the timing and the acting. as well as the aftermath of it . that was some great 10 minutes of cinematography that scene. loved it. yeah! flat out awesome scene. Glad you dug it. I do agree with the other poster regarding some scenes where hard to understand certain characters (esp Renner in certain scenes) I had to listen closely and still missed some dialogue here and there but thats just a minor complaint from me. i think i might have to go see it again tomorrow… have been thinking about it a lot, want to see it again for sure. why wait. going to see the Birth of The Dragon today, thats for sure going to be bad, so tomorrow I will need to improve my viewing experience by something good again.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Sept 3, 2017 7:55:33 GMT
Based on a first viewing (I plan to see it once more), I consider Wind River a qualified success—"pretty good/good" (in other words, a little less than a full-fledged "good," but well above average). The film is appropriately tense and quite engrossing, the gunfight is indeed startling and well-choreographed, and the film carries a sense of place, space, and history. That said, I perceive some drawbacks as well. I had not known that the director was making his debut in that capacity, but that fact now makes sense. There is a certain lack of crispness to the film—it feels mechanical in places, struggling at times for a rhythm. Some of the acting performances strike me as abysmal—the character Pete, for example, along with the stoned Indian and his brother. They are way too over-the-top in manner, more in line with what one would expect in a television episode. On the other hand, I feel that Elizabeth Olsen is excellent and that she makes the other actors better via her presence. Jeremy Renner, for instance, is much better—more natural, less calculated—when Olsen is on the screen with him. Conversely, the scenes with Renner and the Indian father, for instance, are almost puzzling in their sluggishness and utter lack of spark and power. (And, yes, I too could not make out all of their dialogue.) I find the score similarly erratic or problematic. The basic acoustic themes are often organic and effective, but they are supplemented by these electronic murmurs that needlessly thicken the music and render it a bit overwrought. Meanwhile, the editing is sometimes dynamic, but although I do not know exactly how to describe the technique, the shots of people being shot (by bullets) often seem contrived, as if frames have been deleted to simulate a "sped-up," video-game aesthetic, kind of like last year's abysmal (in my opinion) The Magnificent Seven. Why such a technique would be utilized in a film that otherwise strives for realism is perplexing. As I indicated earlier, Wind River has something to say—about poverty and neglect on Native American reservations, about historical bitterness, about the spatial and psychological isolation of the West. But often, writer-director Taylor Sheridan seems uncertain about where to take those ideas or the relationships that he gingerly cultivates. The final scene between the two main characters, for instance, epitomizes this strain, or what I described earlier as a "mechanical" quality. On the one hand, the movie clearly wants to suggest that the relationship between the Olsen and Renner characters is not a romance, that this world and this life are too harsh and unjust for a romantic bow tie. On the other hand, the movie wants to suggest the hint of a romance or romantic humanism, too, so it ends with the Renner figure reading romantic tips from a gossip magazine or women's magazine to the Olsen character while she is in her hospital bed, as she laughs and tells him not to make her laugh because doing so hurts. One can almost feel the film lurching through metaphorical snow, trying to seem fresh while actually stumbling and coming across as clichéd . Other scenes and moments less obviously suggest a similar struggle. Conversely, the film is on much firmer ground in actual snow, with shots (objective and subjective) of trackers and tracking. And the white-on-white visual aspect of Renner's character and the landscape works exceedingly well, both in terms of action staging and overall resonance. But while tense, I concur with "maxwellperfect" that the film is not "suspenseful" and that it "doesn't deliver as either a mystery of a chase." Has anyone seen a movie from the nineties titled Windigo? It received a Best Canadian Feature Film award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994. award Although I never viewed the movie in full, I watched parts of it, here and there, circa May-June 2007 when it was receiving heavy air time on IFC (Independent Film Channel). It too was about Native American troubles in wide open spaces, but it was quite eerie—the eeriness that Wind River strives for yet fails, in my opinion, to fully or naturally realize. How else can I explain my assessment of Wind River? I would draw an analogy to a basketball player who scores 30 points on 30 field goal attempts—he scored, he produced, he made his impact felt, yet he could have done so more efficiently. Actually, the main reason why I want to see Wind River again is to read the closing credits and the significance of the Standing Rock tribal member who died and who the film cites in a tribute—I missed why exactly he was significant.
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