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Thread #125920 Message #2794616
Posted By: Peter T.
22-Dec-09 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: How the West was Won on Turner
Subject: RE: BS: How the West was Won on Turner
Really, such a terrible clunky movie. Everyone in it moves like frozen molasses.
Lonesome Dove was pretty wonderful.
Dances With Wolves was a great film as a film, it has some of the most beautiful scenes in it, and quite breathtaking moments (the scariness of the young indian warriors is something really new in films, after 60 years of supposedly scary indians) that really capture some of the spaciousness of the way of life of the Plains Indians. Of course, the whole love plot is completely ridiculous, a noble savage wet dream.
I'm still a sucker for Rio Bravo. Another absurd Western (Angie Dickinson setting back the cause of women another hundred years).