Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

rconnolly7422 One of those feel good movies that you just have to have in your collection. Much like Trains, Planes and Automobiles or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (can't believe Ian Fleming wrote that as well as James Bond) and another Paul Newman classic Slap Shot. Who cares if they aren't classic Gone with the Wind or Longest Day type movies. They are feel good movies. I can never forget all of the classic scenes in this movie, particularly those that include albino Bad Bob: riding into town, drinking boiling coffee right out of the can from the fire pit and eating an onion straight out of the dirt. Then getting a shotgun hole blown through him from the back in a "fair fight" ha ha. Too many funny memorial scenes. A Newman and cast classic.

NORDIC-2 Phantly Roy Bean (c.1825–1903), a West Texas saloon keeper, Justice of the Peace, and the self-proclaimed "Law West of the Pecos," was a colorful rogue whose tall tales and bizarre judicial antics became the stuff of Old West legend and folklore. Hollywood made two westerns about Bean before Huston's, one good, the other not so good: William Wyler's 'The Westerner' (1940), which earned Walter Brennan a Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar as Judge Bean, and Budd Boetticher's forgettable 'A Time for Dying' (1969). Screenwriter John Milius ('Jeremiah Johnson') has always subscribed to the advice tendered by the newspaper editor in John Ford's 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962): "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Unabashedly choosing myth over factual history, Milius created a surreal, broadly comical script that played up the apocryphal reputation of Bean (Paul Newman) as a remorseless and arbitrary "hangin' judge" (the real Roy Bean never hanged anyone). Milius also exercised great poetic license regarding chronology. Roy Bean arrived in Vinegaroon, Texas in 1882 (when he was already 57), founded the nearby town of Langtry in 1884, served as justice between 1882 and 1902 and died in 1903 at the age of 78. In the movie, Bean arrives in Vinegaroon eight years later, in 1890 (and is only 35 at the time), is driven out of Langtry c.1905, and returns in 1925 (age 70) to clear the town of miscreants one last time. Presumably, Milius pushed Bean's life ahead 25-30 years in order to contrast the exuberant lawlessness of the Old West with the more sinister, corporate criminality of the Prohibition era: a revisionist trope already well exercised by Peckinpah, Altman, and other advocates of the anti-western. Though John Milius was disappointed with the film realized from his screenplay—but not with the record $300,000 he was paid for it—John Huston liked the movie, and Paul Newman considered his understated rendition of Bean one of his better performances. Critics panned the film and box office was only mediocre at best. VHS (1999) and DVD (2003).

me-justaman Script: 7/10 - Alert, quick, witty, funny, some good lines and funny scenes. It is original and fantasist although it misses characterization for at least the main character: Even if the movie is a pleasure to watch, the viewer cannot fully comprehend and experience the reality of those characters for they stay shallow and schematic.The first 2 acts are very good, interesting and very fun to watch. The 3rd act, like in most movies, is a little disappointing and predictable. It leaves you with the usual feeling that something is missing to make the whole story complete and focused. But still, a very original and sympathetic script by the great John Milius whose whole carrier has somehow been a misfire.Direction: 8/10 - John Huston's direction is beautiful, never boring, technically sound, and often purely brilliant. It pastiches the western genre and you can see that the old dinosaur director John Huston has carefully and enthusiastically watched Sergio Leone's movies, and is capable of renewing his own game.Music: 7/10 - Maurice Jarre's score is not as worked out as in "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Dr Jivago", but still, simple, touching, personal, sweet and nostalgic: a pleasure.Cast: 8/10 - Paul Newman and Victoria Principal are great together, natural, touching, and all the secondary knives are very fun to watch. Only false note: IMO who plays Bad Bob, gives an over the top, hysterical performance that drag down the movie for the 3 minutes he appears on screen. John Huston also makes a mediocre appearance.Production: 6,8/10 - Not a lavish production at all, but the simple, beautiful scenery, costumes and sets, will give you this feeling of great old school cinema. The Production design is still a little theatrical and details miss authenticity... but is not Carlo Simi who wants! - Editing: 8/10 - Fluent, simple, discrete, light, and it makes sense at all times. Professional. Special mention for the opening titles: 10/10 – original, spirited and high in color. fabulous! - Subject: 8/10 - a great, original premise. It will remind you that there was a time where people were making original, creative, rich, great movies.Personality: 7/10 - agreeable, light hearted provocation. It still misses a little bit of societal statement to really touch you, but here is a very sympathetic movie that plays on the nostalgia for the far gone wild west and its myths. It also has John Milius's macho romantic spirit all over, but with the subtle direction of John Huston. Great! -Note in history of genre cinema: 6,9.Personal enjoyment of your reviewer: 9/10

moonspinner55 John Milius scripted this farcical western right out of film school. He appears to have been enamored of the "Butch Cassidy" style of western in which modern references and jokes leaven the bloodshed--and in director John Huston, Milius has found that movie partner who relishes the macho aesthetic while underlining everything with self-righteous seriousness (both Johns think alike). Paul Newman, once again playing outlaw, heads up a tiny desert community, appointing himself judge-jury-and-executioner. The western town grows in capacity over the years, and the life there is captured quite vividly, with outré humor and colorful characters who are a lot of fun initially. However, the apparent desire to be profound comes off as masochistic in these joshing circumstances, and as Roy Bean is eventually usurped by the town's growth and progress, one isn't sure how to accept the material. Huston and Milius are like pontificators with a joy buzzer. They've got a good movie here, though it's one that leaves a sour aftertaste behind. **1/2 from ****