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Posted: 8/31/08 at 9:24pm
...what a wonderful film!
It's the ultimate tribute to old-school westerns. I'm watching it on an HD movie channel for the first time (for free)... and the cast it incredible. The story is solid. The acting great. The cinematography breathtaking... SERIOUSLY breathtaking...
...and the Bruce Broughton score! Wow. I just ordered it off of Amazon. It's a nod to Aaron Copland, and Elmer Bernstein's best of the genre.
Did I mention that this movie put Kevin Costner on the map? ...and GOD, he was a handsome fellow back then. DANG.
It's considered a "cult classic" today, so they tell me, because it tanked at the box office in the mid-'80s (pre-Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven), but then did really well on home video (VHS and DVD), and continues to do well to this day. The HD version I'm watching now on Dish has me salivating. I will wait until it's out on Blu-ray, but I think I need to own this one.
...and I'm not even all that big on Westerns! (Not even remotely.)
It's really that GOOD.
It's the ultimate tribute to old-school westerns. I'm watching it on an HD movie channel for the first time (for free)... and the cast it incredible. The story is solid. The acting great. The cinematography breathtaking... SERIOUSLY breathtaking...
...and the Bruce Broughton score! Wow. I just ordered it off of Amazon. It's a nod to Aaron Copland, and Elmer Bernstein's best of the genre.
Did I mention that this movie put Kevin Costner on the map? ...and GOD, he was a handsome fellow back then. DANG.
It's considered a "cult classic" today, so they tell me, because it tanked at the box office in the mid-'80s (pre-Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven), but then did really well on home video (VHS and DVD), and continues to do well to this day. The HD version I'm watching now on Dish has me salivating. I will wait until it's out on Blu-ray, but I think I need to own this one.
...and I'm not even all that big on Westerns! (Not even remotely.)
It's really that GOOD.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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