Day: February 10, 2014

I’m not sure if I can correctly summarize the intense loathing I feel for this movie in a mere three sentences.  Suffice to say it’s 90 minutes of the absolute worst parts of US culture and edited in a looping image way just so you get to see bits of the scenes on repeat.  If I had a daughter,* the roles depicted in this movie would be my greatest fear for her namely the longing to be an object and not a person.

Cost: $2.00 from Videorama
Where watched: at home.

*Or for that matter a son. There were no good role models in this movie, and I realize that that is the point, but that didn’t make it a good movie.  Just gratuitous.

I got this movie partially because it’s an Elmore Leonard-written Western, but also because the main character, John Russell, (played by Paul Newman!)  happens to share a name with someone I work with.  It was odd to hear that Elmore Leonard dialogue that I associate with hardened gangster and other urban underbelly people coming out of the mouths of frontier denizens, but that didn’t make it any less enjoyable.  Diane Cilento was great fun to watch as the hardened, scrappy Jessie, and it turned out that the name John Russell was featured prominently through the movie including the dramatic ending, so I had myself a very good time.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home