3:10 to Yuma
Anybody else seen this movie?
It's a remake of a classic western, and it stars Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. It has all the "stereotypical" elements of a good western - so if you don't like westerns, you won't like this, but if you do... oh, if you do! This is the best I've seen since Unforgiven, definitely better than Tombstone. Actually I'd say it's kind of a cross between Unforgiven and Open Range.
One thing I really appreciated about 3:10 to Yuma is that the storyline is essentially true to the values of the time in which it's set. A lot of times you have these epic movies (such as Titanic or Braveheart) where the things people say and the way they think are really late 20th Century ideas imposed on characters from earlier times. 3:10 to Yuma seems to have a genuine comprehension of the way people would have thought in that environment (well, with some exceptions).
The particular example I'm thinking of, and what I liked so much about it, was that Christian Bale's character never sells out his integrity. He keeps getting cumulative opportunities and motives to "take the easy way out," or in some other way compromise what he believes is the right thing to do - to the point where, by the end of the movie, virtually nobody in the audience would blame him for doing so. But he never does. (I don't think that gives too much away, incidentally!) That kind of strength of character is not often deemed worthy movie material by modern Hollywood, but as far as I'm concerned, it makes for a great western.
3:10 to Yuma is a spectacular western.
It's a remake of a classic western, and it stars Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. It has all the "stereotypical" elements of a good western - so if you don't like westerns, you won't like this, but if you do... oh, if you do! This is the best I've seen since Unforgiven, definitely better than Tombstone. Actually I'd say it's kind of a cross between Unforgiven and Open Range.
One thing I really appreciated about 3:10 to Yuma is that the storyline is essentially true to the values of the time in which it's set. A lot of times you have these epic movies (such as Titanic or Braveheart) where the things people say and the way they think are really late 20th Century ideas imposed on characters from earlier times. 3:10 to Yuma seems to have a genuine comprehension of the way people would have thought in that environment (well, with some exceptions).
The particular example I'm thinking of, and what I liked so much about it, was that Christian Bale's character never sells out his integrity. He keeps getting cumulative opportunities and motives to "take the easy way out," or in some other way compromise what he believes is the right thing to do - to the point where, by the end of the movie, virtually nobody in the audience would blame him for doing so. But he never does. (I don't think that gives too much away, incidentally!) That kind of strength of character is not often deemed worthy movie material by modern Hollywood, but as far as I'm concerned, it makes for a great western.
3:10 to Yuma is a spectacular western.
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posted by Peter G at 9:21 a. m.
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