remarkably dense with plots and sub-plots and characters meeting, being torn apart, reuniting, and sparking off each other considering it's a mere 92 minutes. it flies by thanks to its lean storytelling and its elegant central device of following the rifle as it changes hands. some great action in this, as well some compelling personal drama between steve and lola, and a magnetic, surprisingly-dark jimmy stewart performance for a surprisingly dark movie - it's basically a noir western. only real…
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3:10 to Yuma 2007
this really suffers by comparison to the original, because it takes the same basic story and many of the same beats, but overstuffs that story with so many exaggerated action sequences and set-pieces - some chained together - that the whole thing begins to seem absurd. on top of that, it simultaneously decides to make ben wade more vicious and brutal than he is in the original, but also gives him a turn at the end which is far more…
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Arnold 2023
i had a bad feeling about this one when it opened with arnold in a jacuzzi on top of a snowy mountain, smoking a cigar. real tone-setter for what a jerk-off session this was going to be. that said, arnold's personality is so weird that he leaves stuff in that probably seems normal to him, but which would make regular people go "do you realise how you sound right now?", and those are the most intriguing parts of this disposable…
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