No no.... love westerns too. Actually went searching for this after I finished upon a Time in America but couldn't find it on the services.. . Well for free anyway. I watched Unforgivin again the other day. Actually liked it more this time around than the first ....
Heaven's Gate was the movie that killed United Artists. Some said it killed the entire western genre, though it just put it in jail for a while. Some say it's too long and too pretentious. Some say the animal cruelty that went on should prevent it ever being shown again. I saw it a few years after all the fuss about its huge cost taking down UA and I liked it. In retrospect many critics have revised their opinions. It is lush to look at, with sweeping vistas that put CGI'd Middle Earth to shame. There are some young actors that went on to be big stars. Then again, I also liked Spielberg's 1941, so maybe I just like movies that waste Hollywood's money. It's worth making your own mind up about it, though.
The original True Grit is one of my fave movies of all time but I also loved the Coen Bros' remake, which is well worth a look.
I prefer the old western.... The Searchers, High Noon etc. I found it strange that Tarantino nods to Leone a lot (who in turn nods to Japanese samurai flicks) and yet all the visuals of his western films are ruined by his incessant need for non stop dialogue. I enjoyed the likes of Tombstone and Young Guns but they weirdly feel dated more than some of the classics lol
Obviously, the new Lost in space is sci fi... But how sci fi? I like sci fi usually... But if it's too campy, or too sci fiey the Mrs. won't watch it. (She likes sci fi when the sci fi is the setting of the plot... Not the whole story).
It's not very campy at all.... not particularly dark either... It's a bit The 100 if anything.... as I said it got better but suffers from the dozens of series that stole the idea from the original series lol. It's not start trek level of techiness but ironically could have done with being a bit more like a western/frontier series as it kind of abandoned the Robinson crusoe angle...
Love that film too. I Iike Dances with Wolves although I know a lot of people don't like Kevin Costner and wouldn't watch it just for that.
I love Tombstone for Kilmer's OTT Doc Holliday and some brilliant quotable dialogue. "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens." Some of the dialogue is said to be historically accurate, taken from recorded witness accounts.
He has an ego that's for sure but it's never put me off his films that much. Dances with wolves is great in terms of of visuals. Although his Wyatt Earp film suffered being released so close after Tombstone....
