"Silverado!" I'm really late to the party, but...

[best12bars]

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.

[Mamie]

Posted: 8/31/08 at 10:35pm

I couldn't agree more, Besty. I am a fan of good westerns and this movie is just perfection. The cast is absolutely wonderful - the secondary characters just as much as the leads. I have an incredible CD called "Roundup" that's filled with classic western themes. When "Silverado" comes on I can close my eyes and see Jake and Emmett (and how I LOVED Scott Glenn!), Mal and Paden riding across the plains and into Silverado.

Besides Costner and Glenn, Kevin Kline and Danny Glover, there was the incomparable Brian Dennehy and Linda Hunt. No less than Jeff Goldblum, John Cleese, Rosanna Arquette and a boat load of actors from classic westerns kept the film buzzing. As I said before - just perfection!

(And how'd you like Jake's getting 2 for 1 in the shootout in the town? I LOVED it!)

By the way, Silverado was Lawrence Kasdan's 'pay back' to Kevin Costner for cutting him out of "The Big Chill". Costner couldn't have been cuter if he'd tried!

Updated On: 8/31/08 at 10:35 PM

[cfmiller]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:29am

An excellent film. I do love a good Western.

What ever happened to Kasdan's career? He was white hot for the 80's, then drops away.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:38am

He definitely slowed down a whole lot. I even liked "Grand Canyon."

According to IMDb.com, he's working on the screenplay to the new "Clash of the Titans" movie. If they're going to try to do it with CGI, I'll pass. I love the Ray Harryhausen original claymation stuff! And Maggie Smith, of course.