Appaloosa

[PFD]

Rented it this weekend.

I liked it. Admittedly, though, I'm a devotee of the Western.

 

[Austintxusa]

Saw it at the theater and rented it yesterday. Even better than Unforgiven IMO.

 

[Horn89]

Wow. I thought Unforgiven was a brilliant movie that pushed the boundaries of the traditional western. There was a "Fog of War" element to Unforgiven, where mistakes are made in the heat of battle, and it had some unexpected plot elements where people, both good and bad, don't necessarily get what's coming to them. Great movie.

Appaloosa, on the other hand, was mediocre-at-best, IMO.

 

[Chest Rockwell]

I watched Appaloosa this weekend and thought it was okay. It had a few moments, but otherwise I didn't think it was that strong overall.

 

[PFD]

I wouldn't rate Appaloosa as highly as Unforgiven, which, as mentioned, holds a special place in the Western genre as the perfect closure to Eastwood's anti-hero characters from the spaghetti westerns.

However, I would rate Appaloosa as an entertaining Western in the traditional style, with a solid on-screen dynamic between Harris and Mortensen, reminiscent of the dynamic between Duvall and Costner in Open Range.

For me, Appaloosa is medium-to-high on the scale of modern Westerns, somewhere below classics like Unforgiven and Tombstone, comparable to Open Range, and slightly better than the Crowe/Bale remake of 3:10 to Yuma.

As I said, however, I enjoyed all of the above.

 

[Bevo Incognito]

Just put it in my Netflix queue.

Thanks, guys.

 

[RomaVicta]

I liked it. Not a terribly memorable film, but solid entertainment. I think you're raising expectations too high if you compare it to Unforgiven.

 

[UT94Horn]

Unforgiven better...hands down.

 

[ptownhorn]

it was funny watching Ed Harris be the big tough Marshal then his character acted totaly different when the chick (renee zelweeger) came around. Renee looked fugly in this film.

It was funny watching Ed Harris not be able to come up w/ the words he was trying to speak and coming across as a dumb ***. However, nobody would make fun of him for fear of getting their *** kicked.

I kind of liked the bad guy. You almost forgot what he did at the beginning of the movie

 

[sandypoley]

ptown,
I agree with your assessment of Renee in this film. She didn't look her best.

 

[Homesickhorn]

I saw it last night, and liked it. Greatly casted, and it was cool seeing Jeremy Irons play a western villain. However, to compare this movie to Unforgiven, is reaching. Unforgiven hasn't, and won't be touched for a long time.

 

[Austintxusa]

I said ..........IMO!!!!!

I liked Unforgiven but it wasn't my favorite Eastwood western by several.

 

[converse]

Liked it...not as much as 3:10 to Yuma.

Part of what I really liked were these weird little scenes where they go behind the usual scenes. Not sure if I'm describing it well, but the typical movie will show the stoic sheriff being a badass. Appaloosa does that, but then it has a scene where that same sheriff is flustered by trying to pick out curtains for the new house. Really quirky scenes, but I liked the movie more because of them.

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

Rented it because of this thread.

It was okay (maybe 6 out of 10) and an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours but I really didn't buy into the relationship beteen Harris and Zellweger and the logical gaps in the movie threatened to overpower it in terms of believablity.

 

[UT wildcatter]

Appaloosa has one of my buddies in it and Houston's own 95 Memorial graduate Corby Greisenbeck. Too bad he's an ag.

We always called him our lil elfin aggy, since he's a tiny actor. He plays the undersheriff to Rex Linn's character, Charlie Tewksbury. Rex Linn is a huge Longhorn and he and Renee Zelwellger have somewhat converted the Greaser. Corby said Renee made him wear a longhorn hat around the set.

Corby's general in tow with Rex at every UT-aggy game. He'll get ya into some trouble

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